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The rise of regional government in Scotland can be linked to the wider growth of regionalism throughout Western Europe in which the positive role of government in managing the regional economy was stressed. However, almost since their inception the Scottish Regional Councils were undermined from the centre until their abolition in 1996. The new system of Scottish local government has been shorn of key strategic functions and subjected to a plethora of reforms which question its ability to adopt a regional overview of issues. However, with the prospect of major constitutional reform if Labour win the next general election, the possibility remains that some form of regional government may reemerge throughout Britain in the near future.

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