There has not been a government of England since 1707. England ceased to exist
as a sovereign state, in its own right after 1284, when Wales was joined to
England under the Statute of Rhuddlan to form the entity England and Wales. In
1707 the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland merged to form the
Kingdom of Great Britain. The United Kingdom, which itself replaced the Kingdom
of Great Britain following and later merger with the Kingdom of Ireland in 1801,
has undergone a series of dramatic innovations in the manner in which its
constituent countries are governed, with devolved parliaments, assemblies and
governments in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. England remains under
the full jurisdiction, on all matters, of the Parliament of the United Kingdom
and Her Majesty's Government of the United Kingdom.
Attempts at devolution to the English regions have been unsuccessful so far,
reinforcing the idea that devolution, and more specifically the regionalisation
of the country, is not popular amongst the English public. One part of England,
Greater London, has a degree of devolved power, although weaker to that of
Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, with power vested in an elected London
Mayor and the London Assembly. Greater London is however a unique region of
England, being almost entirely made up of a single city - London.
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