Break-up or reconfigure?

Michael Collins (Oxford): Gordon Brown has a unique opportunity to bring the issues surrounding identity politics, ‘Britishness’ and devolution together through a structured process of constitutional reform. This has the potential to engage the public in meaningful debate about what kind of Britain we want for the 21st century. Certainly ‘reconfiguration’ is a far more interesting and potentially progressive idea than ‘break-up’. Who knows, Brown could be remembered as Britain’s Scottish Prime Minister who gave the English their parliament.