English votes for English MPs.

So the Conservatives have finally come up with the answer to the West Lothian question and will propose ending the right of Westminster MPs from Scotland to vote on matters only affecting England.

Mr Smith says about time too.

The only justification for allowing Scottish MPs to vote on English matters after devolution for Scotland was that it was a less anomalous contradiction than existed (from a Scottish perspective) under the last Conservative Government when hundreds of English MPs got to vote on matters only affecting Scotland. And that anomaly ended eight years ago with devolution for Scotland.

No democrat could argue other than that the current position is untenable and probably explains why an opinion poll suggests that a third of English voters now support Scotland becoming independent.