Henry Hill: Sturgeon sets out plan to ‘unlock’ Scotland… one day before England

Also: DUP demand clarity from Johnson over customs checks, and Abolish the Welsh Assembly get their first representative in it.

Henry Hill: Scottish schools face a full year of disruption, and the DUP clash with teaching unions

The battle to re-open state schools rages across the UK. Also: Mohammed Asghar, Conservative member of the Welsh Assembly, passed away this week.

Henry Hill: New polling shows Welsh devoscepticism is no longer a fringe interest

The proposition is backed by more than a third of those prepared to say how they’d vote – including an overwhelming majority of Tories.

Henry Hill: Do Johnson’s two Scottish Office appointments show he’s taking the SNP more seriously?

For all that Downing Street sources dismissed Douglas Ross as ‘Mr Nobody’, the Prime Minister has decided to replace him with two people.

Henry Hill: Why the Scottish Conservatives are leading the charge against Cummings

By deflecting attention from their own record, the row is a huge gift for the SNP – and the stakes are much higher than the 2021 elections.

Henry Hill: Sunak squares up to the SNP over the future of furlough

Also: Welsh Government abandons separate testing app to join UK-run scheme; Gove tries to downplay the Irish Sea border.

Henry Hill: As predicted, the ‘four nations’ approach to Covid-19 is falling apart

Also: Kawczynski clashes with colleagues over the future of Welsh devolution; Government capitulates on an Irish Sea border; and more.

Henry Hill: Will devolution force us to exit lockdown at the speed of the slowest?

In order to maintain a UK-wide approach, the infrastructure for a ‘test, trace, and track’ strategy has to be in place across the board at the same time.

Henry Hill: Ministers might face a tricky task finding a one-nation route to easing lockdown

It may prove easier to maintain coordination when imposing the rules than easing them, especially if regional variegation is called for.

Henry Hill: Carlaw complains to the BBC about its coverage of the Scottish Government

Also: Supermarkets reject Drakeford’s bid to shift blame for deliveries fiasco; Welsh health minister faces calls to resign; and more.

Henry Hill: Scottish Conservatives put the spotlight on Covid-19’s constitutional consequences

Also: Welsh Labour demand less alignment with London on coronavirus policy; and Sinn Fein isolated in objecting to Army support in Northern Ireland.

Henry Hill: Labour’s new leader sets the party against Scottish independence… but toward federalist folly

By taking refuge once again in his party’s only idea, Starmer puts himself behind even Gordon Brown in his constitutional thinking.

Henry Hill: Anger grows as devolution hinders coordinated response to the Covid-19 crisis

Also: Opposition parties force the SNP to abandon a bid to suspend trial by jury; and more good reading on the fallout from Alex Salmond’s acquittal.

Henry Hill: Welsh Tories’ anger as devolution hinders NHS volunteer scheme

Also: Salmond gathers his forces and his allies call for inquiries and resignations as the SNP civil war gathers momentum.

Henry Hill: Sturgeon abandons bid for 2020 independence referendum due to epidemic

Also: schools and businesses shut down across the nation; DUP slammed in ‘cash-for-ash’ report; and Salmond’s trial continues.