> England doesn’t have a power centre of its own In fact, the UK parliament - Westminster - is a defacto English power centre. The fringe nations are a mathema

> England doesn’t have a power centre of its own In fact, the UK parliament - Westminster - is a defacto English power centre. The fringe nations are a mathematical irrelevance except in extreme cases. The UK is in reality Greater England, same way the Russian Federation is Russia writ large. This narrative of forgotten, voiceless England doesn't stand up to examination. Brexit, though, was most certainly born out of (some of) the English feeling that they were losing control of their domain to Europe.