EDEXCEL Politics A level

‘Evaluate the extent to which the location of sovereignty has changed in recent years’


When you see this question do you think it is asking you:

It has vs has not

Has changed a lot vs not so much


Please can someone help? Thank you!

Introduction:
Define Sovereignty and give an insight to argument.

For:
- Devolution - Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Power has been distributed around the UK and it can somewhat be argued that sovereignty has moved away from Westminster to other parts of the UK.
- ECJ and EU powers up until 31st January 2020.
- Council of Europe and ECHR and the fact that the HRA 1998 has a lot of influence over the UK. Statements of incompatability and all of that.

Against:
- Westminster still retains a considerable amount of powers and not all of the devolved administrations have 'Devo Max'.
- The UK is no longer part of EU. This means that sovereignty effectively still resides in Westminster.

I hope this helps.