A quote from Labour MP Frank Field in The Daily Telegraph, 29 September 2007

Yet it is not on Scotland that all eyes should be turned but on England itself. The few polls that have asked the same question of the English as well as the Scots show that English voters want greater independence from the Union than their counterparts north of the border.

A Newsnight survey found that a clear 61 per cent of English voters think they should have their own parliament and that this proposition was supported by a majority of Scottish voters. Another poll revealed that a greater proportion of English voters wanted independence for England than did Scottish voters for Scotland.

The English question is the great giant in British politics that is now beginning to awake from slumber induced by the first devolution of power to Scotland.