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Under the plans - drawn up by the former Scottish Secretary Sir Malcolm Rifkind - English MPs would form a Grand Committee to vote on domestic issues whilst the entire Commons would vote on UK-wide matters like defence and foreign policy. He may be Prime Minister of the United Kingdom but, the Conservatives ask, should Gordon Brown, Member of Parliament for Kirkcaldy in Scotland, have the right to determine what happens in England's schools and hospitals? The Conservatives are thinking about creating a committee of English MPs to decide on England-only issues like health, transport, and education. They say their intention is not to create an English Parliament - more than half the business of the Commons they say would still be decided by all MPs on the floor of the house. So the Tories are saying it's constitutional tweaking - Labour are saying it's catastrophic.

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