Article: Welsh Secretary's role under threat; MPs from North of England want new regional department.(News)

Byline: David Rose

LABOUR MPs have plunged Prime Minister Tony Blair into a row by demanding that the office of Welsh Secretary should be scrapped.

Instead, the MPs from the North of England want a new department to be called the Nations and Regions establishment headed by a Secretary of State to represent the English regions as well as Scotland and Wales.

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