The article constitutes an attempt to deal with the paradox contained in the West Lothian Question (known also as the English Question) which remains one of the greatest anomalies of the British constitutional system. Since the 1970s (when this question was asked for the first time) there have been many legal and political disputes over that issue, and even the idea of ‘English votes for English laws’ (EVEL) was implemented by the British parliament.The purpose of the article is to analyze and evaluate the potential impact of Brexit on that issue. By applying the historical method as well as the institutional and legal analysis method, the author verifies the hypothesis that Brexit will not be a breakthrough in finding an optimal solution to this legal and constitutional conundrum, even though in the post-Brexit reality this issue will keep returning, gaining a completely new meaning in the eyes of the British.
Łukasz Danel (Wed,) studied this question.