PRESS RELEASE : Consultation on “devolution deal” for Cornwall [December 2022]

The press release issued by Mebyon Kernow on 11 December 2022.

Cornwall Council has just commenced a ten-week consultation on its so-called “devolution deal,” which Mebyon Kernow has rightly described as “not devolution at all.”

Speaking on behalf of MK, Party Leader Cllr Dick Cole has criticized the consultation as “biased,” but he has also called on supporters of greater powers for Cornwall to use the consultation to demand proper devolution.

He said: “The so-called ‘devolution deal’ is not devolution at all. It is simply a range of accommodations between central government and their Conservative allies on the unitary authority. Now is the time to challenge Cornwall’s Tories to ‘go back to the drawing board’ and deliver a more meaningful democratic settlement for Cornwall – and that needs to include our own national parliament.”

The consultation runs until 17th February and can be found at https://letstalk.cornwall.gov.uk.