For Britain See Wales A Possible Future [TRADE PAPER ]

For more than twenty years, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have had devolved governments, gaining confidence and control of policy areas. But Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic drew public attention to their powers, prompting fundamental questions about the economy and control of funds.Now Joe England explores the possible constitutional melt-down of an economically and politically divided United Kingdom and its implications, and reflects on how Wales came to be the poorest nation of all. As a constitutionalcrisis looms, this book examines what new Wales might arise from the old and what kind of a society it could be. This is the story of how Wales reached an economic and constitutional crossroads and the choices that must now bemade.Joe England was educated at Cyfarthfa Grammar School,Merthyr Tydfil and at the University of Nottingham where hestudied Economic and Social History. In a varied career he hasbeen editor of a weekly newspaper, a full-time lecturer for theWorkers Educational Association, Deputy Director of theDepartment of Extra-Mural Studies in the University of HongKong, Research Fellow in the Industrial Relations Research Unitat Warwick University and Principal and chief executive ofColeg Harlech, Wales residential college for adults. He is Chair of the Merthyr TydfilHeritage Forum.The new book by a leading figure on Wales's culture and politics.