In the year of the tercentenary of the union between England and Scotland, the claim is made by the Conservative party that only it ‘can make devolution work’. However, this article examines such a claim and also the prospects that a policy of ‘English votes for English laws’ will merely add to the dilemma facing the Conservative party; namely, that a party of ‘positive unionism’ cannot be a party of legislative devolution. The concomitant constitutional anomalies associated with devolution policy have merely been displaced rather than removed but the Conservative party has not yet developed credible polices that will address what has now become known as the ‘English Question’.