Sign up to FREE email alerts from the Northern Agenda The North West will become a "federal state" similar to Scotland, under proposals from the Liberal Democrats.
Activists at the party conference voted for a motion to put the English regions on “a constitutional standing equivalent to that of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland”.
Under the plan, the region would take control of a range of key functions of government, including economic development; NHS and social care services; housing and planning; transport, education; transport; agriculture, and local environmental and decarbonisation policy. Read more: Why Greater Manchester needs devolution now more than ever The motion stated that "the UK’s constitution is no longer fit for
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