Crucially, current approaches to devolution via bespoke city regions and other territorial deals will create asymmetries in policy remit amongst MPs in different
parts of England that resemble the very «West Lothian Question'that
EVEL is supposed to put to rest.
The proposal that English votes determine English laws (
EVEL) was
part of the Conservative manifesto in 2005 (pp. 21 - 22), 2010 (p. 84) and again in 2015 (p. 70), although this policy's time may now have been forced upon them by increased Scottish and Welsh devolution.