John Prescott MP, Hansard, September 2002:
"Regional assemblies represent a new tier of political accountability."
Gordon Brown MP, in a speech, to the University of Manchester Science and Technology Institute, Jan 2001:
"...where Britain becomes as it should be - a Britain of nations and regions..."
George Robertson MP, Scotland on Sunday, Aug 1995:
"The answer to the West Lothian question is the fact that our constitutional plans are not confined to Scotland and Wales. It will also embrace regional government in England, and that's a firm commitment too."
Lord Falconer, Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs, in a speech to the ESRC Devolution and Constitutional Change Programme, March 2006:
"One of the purposes of devolution was to ensure fairness to the nations of the UK."
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