Cameron sets a trap for Labour

The prime minister has put Labour in a quandry over constitutional reform. Emily Hohler reports.

At the crack of dawn on Friday, hours after the No' vote on Scottish independence, David Cameron stood in front of 10 Downing Street and "set a trap for the opposition", says The Economist. He confirmed that the last-minute promises to devolve more powers to Edinburgh would be honoured on a fast timetable.

On the same timetable, William Hague would work on plans for English-only votes on English matters. That means "immense constitutional change", about which there is currently no policy detail, in just three months, says Ian Birrell in the FT.

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Emily Hohler
Politics editor

Emily has worked as a journalist for more than thirty years and was formerly Assistant Editor of MoneyWeek, which she helped launch in 2000. Prior to this, she was Deputy Features Editor of The Times and a Commissioning Editor for The Independent on Sunday and The Daily Telegraph. She has written for most of the national newspapers including The Times, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Evening Standard and The Daily Mail, She interviewed celebrities weekly for The Sunday Telegraph and wrote a regular column for The Evening Standard. As Political Editor of MoneyWeek, Emily has covered subjects from Brexit to the Gaza war.

Aside from her writing, Emily trained as Nutritional Therapist following her son's diagnosis with Type 1 diabetes in 2011 and now works as a practitioner for Nature Doc, offering one-to-one consultations and running workshops in Oxfordshire.