English Explanatory Dictionary

West Lothian question

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The anomaly whereby Scottish MPs can vote on issues affecting England, but English MPs cannot vote on Scottish issues.

Word forms

West Lothian question the West Lothian question

Etymology

Coined by Enoch Powell MP in 1977 after series of similar questions originally raised by Tam Dalyell, MP for West Lothian.

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