It is only a handful of days until MK’s Annual Conference, which will take on Saturday 23rd November. The venue will be the Council Offices in Truro and the event will take place between 10.00 and 4.00. In the afternoon session, commencing at 2.00, MK leader Cllr Dick Cole will deliver a keynote address about the ongoing devolution debate and what the Labour Government could mean for Cornish aspirations. This will be followed by a debate, which should be interesting following…

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Mebyon Kernow – the Party for Cornwall has hit out at the comments of Jim McMahon, the Minister of State for “Local Government and English Devolution.” It has been widely reported that, a meeting of the “South West Councils” organisation on Thursday 14th November, he outlined the Government’s emerging approach to “devolution.” In particular, it has been widely reported that he stated his preferred footprint for a “devolution deal” would be “Devon and Cornwall.” Commenting on the news, MK leader Cllr…

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Mebyon Kernow is pleased that North Cornwall MP Ben Maguire spoke in Prime Minister’s Questions today, and asked Keir Starmer for a meeting with all six Cornish MPs to discuss devolution and the need for a Cornish Assembly. The Prime Minister has agreed to the meeting but it is worrying that, in his response, he spoke about the “south-west” and “Devon and Torbay” and encouraging “local authorities to work with their neighbours” for wider devolution for their areas. The question and…

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Mebyon Kernow has hit out at the failure of the UK Government to invite representatives of the nation of Cornwall to the first gathering of the new Council of the Nations and Regions, which is meeting in Scotland today. Party Leader Cllr Dick Cole said: “It is approaching two months since group leaders at Cornwall Council wrote a collective letter [dated 16th July] to the Prime Minister requesting that Cornwall be represented on the new Council of the Nations and Regions.…

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