Over the coming months, Backbench will be partnering with Torrin Wilkins, Director of Centre Think Tank for a series of comment pieces. In his column, Torrin will explore prominent policy issues – some of them related to the latest news…

More than anything, May’s local and Holyrood elections highlight an increasing trend towards localism. While we know that actual appetite for Scottish independence has dropped in recent years, the SNP secured a fourth term in Holyrood and pro-independence parties also…

Boris Johnson shocked many when he told Conservative MPs in a meeting that devolution has been a ‘disaster’ for Scotland. Like any other Unionist, I understood this was said not to discredit the concept of local government. Instead, Boris’ comment…