UK Deputy PM Clegg calls for Welsh home rule

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Legislation which could make “home rule” for Wales a reality should be published at the same time as the measures for Scotland, according to Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg.

The Liberal Democrat leader called on party leaders in Wales to speak with one voice in order to put pressure on the London-based Government to deliver the transfer of new powers.

He said: “When we deliver what is in effect home rule, here, for Scotland within the United Kingdom I think we should aspire to deliver home rule to Wales.”

Mr Clegg also said that while the Barnett formula used to allocate Treasury cash to the devolved governments would stay in place in Scotland there was a need for a “separate financial solution for Wales”.

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He criticised the record of rival parties on areas such as changing the voting system and party funding, saying: “My experience with the Conservatives and, indeed actually, the Labour party on constitutional reform generally is that they have absolutely no interest at all in wholesale coherent constitutional reform. They’ll pick off the things which they think are of narrow political advantage but anything [which] threatens their kind of vested interests in the political system – and they are utterly ruthless – [they will block].”

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