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• Posted on 19 May 2016 by NatCen, Research

  NatCen Insights: Queen's Speech 2016

  

  Yesterday the Queen delivered the Government’s legislative plan for the upcoming Parliament. This blog draws on NatCen data to show where the public may stand on the new laws.

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  Tags: NHS, National Citizen Service, Wales, crime and justice, devolution, diet, education, extremism, housebuying, politics, tax, transport, universities

• Posted on 27 May 2015 by NatCen, Research

  NatCen Insights: Queen's Speech 2015

  

  The first Queen’s speech of the new Conservative Government was delivered at the State Opening of Parliament today, announcing a wide range of new legislation in 21 new Bills. Here we have a look at what NatCen research tells us about some of the new policies.

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  Tags: childcare, EU, Europe, European Union, Right to Buy, Scottish independence, crime and justice, devolution, extremism, immigration, income and welfare, mental health, spend

• Posted on 28 November 2014 by Sir John Curtice, Senior Research Fellow ScotCen

  Smith Commission - will voters be satisfied?

  

  The Smith Commission was, of course, the product of concern in the No camp that the referendum vote might be lost.  By offering Scotland a firm promise of more autonomy within the framework of the UK, it was hoped voters would be persuaded they did not need to leave the UK after all.  

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  Tags: Smith Commission, devolution, Scotland

• Posted on 11 September 2013 by Sir John Curtice, Senior Research Fellow

  Is devolution keeping Britain together or driving it apart?

  

  According to Lord Robertson, Labour’s Shadow Scottish Secretary during the 1990s, introducing devolution would kill nationalism ‘stone dead’. In contrast, his former backbench colleague, Tam Dalyell, argued it would prove to be a ‘slippery slope’ towards Scottish independence. With a referendum on Scottish independence due to be held in a year’s time, at the moment there would seem to be little doubt that, for good or ill, it is Tam Dalyell’s remark that has proved the more prescient.

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  Tags: BSA30, British Social Attitudes, devolution