Can England really walk the road to devolution? | Simon Jenkins

The Tories must offer more than words if they are serious about giving local councils more power

Is the revolution to hand? Is devo met for real harbinger of the one true decentralist shift of power from London to provincial England since, well, Magna Carta? A merchant banker, Jim ONeill, this week claimed that George Osborne has accepted his city growth proposal to move fiscal and other liberties to Britains 15 big cities. With a statisticians phoney exactitude, ONeill says this could bo...