Michael Gove, the cabinet’s pointman on independence, has said he would back scrapping the so-called EVEL legislation brought in by David Cameron immediately after the 2014 referendum.Cameron brought it in to ensure that bills, amendments and clauses of legislation affecting England alone must be approved by a majority of English MPs.But the move created an immediate nationalist backlash that led to 56 SNP MPs being elected to Westminster the following year.Gove wants to scrap the controversial voting mechanism which has in any case been suspended in April last year to simplify Commons proceedings during the pandemic.Gove has proposed the voting device be abolished altogether to make Parliament work “for every part of the UK and every party.
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