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The devolution deal required Cornwall to create a new directly elected regional Mayor (Meryon in Cornish). [15] The powers were designed to give the council and Mayor/ Meryon "greater control over transport budgets, building, skills delivery, and greater influence with government to tackle challenges of second homes" [ 16 ] [ 17 ] [ 18 ]
If Scotland is benefiting from devolution then Cornwall should learn from this and increase the intensity of its own campaign for devolution to a Cornish Assembly." [30] Andrew George lost his seat in the 2015 election. On Tuesday 17 July 2007, Local Government Minister John Healey MP announced Government plans to abolish regional assemblies.
The calls for Cornish devolution also gained more widespread attention. In 1990, a Guardian newspaper editorial commented “Smaller minorities also have equally proud visions of themselves as irreducibly Welsh, Irish, Manx or Cornish. These identities are distinctly national in ways which proud people from Yorkshire, much less proud people ...
Sources diverge leading up to the time of King Arthur, with Caradoc placed either during the time of Arthur (as in the Welsh Triads, and later tradition), soon before Gorlois (Carew's Survey of Cornwall), or before his brother Dionotus as Caradocus in the Historia Regum Britanniae, while the Book of Baglan only keeps Gorlois, but gives him an entirely different set of ancestors.
15th century: the emergence of a popular Cornish literature, centred on the religious-themed mystery plays (see Cornish literature). 1415: Cornish archers present at the Battle of Agincourt [26] 1455–1487: Wars of the Roses, the feud between the Courtenays and Bonvilles in Cornwall and Devon. 1469–72: Rebuilding of St Petroc's Church, Bodmin
We need a Cornish Assembly that can set the right democratic priorities for Cornwall and provide a stronger voice for our communities in Britain, in Europe and throughout the wider world." [3] In this, the Cornish Constitutional Convention sits within the milieu of increased desire for greater autonomy by European regions. Given Cornwall's ...
In 2015, Cornwall was granted a devolution deal, [57] the first of its kind given to a council authority. [58] It was criticised by devolution campaigners and nationalists for not ceding enough powers to Cornwall – Mebyon Kernow leader Dick Cole argued Cornwall should be given devolution powers like those of Wales or Scotland. [59]
The Cornish Nationalist Party (CNP; Cornish: An Parti Kenethlegek Kernow) is a political party founded in 1975. It initially campaigned for independence for Cornwall [ 1 ] but later supported devolved powers under central UK control .