Brexit vote paves way for federal union to save UK, says all-party group

Exclusive: Proposed constitutional reform would give each nation and region of the UK full sovereignty over its own affairs

The governance of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland should be reinvented within a new voluntary union in a bid to save the UK from disintegration, an independent all-party group of experts will argue this week.

The Constitution Reform Group, convened by former Conservative cabinet minister Lord Salisbury, is to make the the case for radical constitutional change in the UK by claiming the need has been boosted by the vote to leave the European Union.

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