10-03-2023, 01:03 AM
(10-03-2023, 12:53 AM)Radio_man Wrote: The new joint service doesn't have any hope of getting devolved government in the UK correct. Eg. Steve Barclay is the Health Secretary for England, not the UK Health Secretary, but you can guarantee that he'll be wrongly referred to as the UK Health Secretary.
Same goes for Education Secretary, Transport Secretary, and any area of government that's devolved to Scotland, Wales & NI, who all have their own ministers responsible for these areas of devolved government.
But the News Channel couldn't even get devolution right when it was just broadcasting in the UK, so trying to explain the UK complicated system of devolved government to the rest of the world.............
Probably they could refer to Barclay as the Health Secretary of the Westminster Government perhaps?
With the following being applied where needed when explaining devolved matters:
Humza Yousaf of the Scottish Government*
Eluned Morgan of the Welsh Government*
Robin Swann of the Northern Ireland Executive*^
*Data sourced from Wikipedia.
^The last known minister listed.