Emergency ‘constitutional plumbing’ has reached its limits coping with devolution. it’s time for a new institutional architecture

The British way of bodged, incremental constitutional reform is patently inadequate for the demands of devolution to Scotland and elsewhere, James Mitchell argues. Whatever the outcome of a future referendum in Scotland, much better planned reforms and a new institutional architecture are needed in the UK or rUK – such as replacing the House of Lords with a House of Nations and Regions.