It must be nice to be Mr. Blairs best mate. You get handed a powerful job, ostensibly more powerful than the office of the Prime Minister. You get to help formulate policy, pass laws and wear a frock, stockings and a wig!

Now this unelected Scotsman has decided that the English do not and should not have a Parliament. Nice. A remarkable politician, a man who, when practising as a barrister, advised British Nuclear Fuels in cases against leukaemia victims, British Coal against trade unions over pit closures and sent his four children to public schools. A pillar of New Labour in effect.

The Lord Chancellor, Lord Falconer, is set to strongly reject the idea of an English parliament, in a speech to a conference on devolution.
Delicious irony.

linky

Yet another 'I know best' scenario from an appointee.