The Welsh Government, too, made it clear it would not be following Mr Johnson’s lead, and Northern Ireland also went its own way. To take one example, there are four chief medical officers – one each for England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. But many supposedly British institutions are not very ‘British’ in the way they operate. Meanwhile, the Anglican church in Wales and Northern Ireland is disestablished and therefore forms no part of the state. Yet they, too, are run very differently in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.

Source: Daily Mail January 16, 2021 22:40 UTC