The West Lothian question will no doubt dominate the airwaves today as former Tory Chancellor Kenneth Clarke produces his solution to the question of Scottish MP's voting on matters that are purely English in nature.
Clarke appeared on the Today programme earlier trailuing his much previewed solution which involves a complicated structure of who can vote at which stage of the bill.
According to Clarke, who recognised that the Tories held up devolution for two long,the measures are needed before we have a crisis built up over English resentment.
Of course the main stumbling block in all this is the fact that we have a Scottish Prime Minister representing a Scottish constituency whose pet projects are the very issues where Scotland has a degree of autonomy.
The Conservatives no doubt sense the inequality more than Labour and these proposals will be seen as an attempt to redress what the Tories see as an imbalance of regional voting patterns.
It should though be remembered that even without Scottish MP's the Labour party has a majority of MP's in England alone.
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