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One of Labour's Big Ideas in Tony Blair's second term was to introduce elected assemblies for the English regions, something masterminded by John Prescott and starting with the northern regions (which just happen to be mostly Labour voters, purely by coincidence I assure you). OTL, only one referendum was held, for the North East, in 2004 and was decisively defeated, meaning all the plans were abandoned. What if Labour had been more successful and elected assemblies had been introduced at least for the first three projected regions - the North East, the North West and Yorkshire and the Humber?
The reasons behind the OTL referendum defeat are, as I understand it:
Regionalism in the North East and the distrust of a Newcastle-based parliament by the other groups up there
The idea that it would add an extra layer of politicians and bureaucrats for the public purse to pay. A few people did point out that Labour's regional development agencies meant there was ALREADY an assembly in each region, it just wasn't elected, so this wouldn't cost much more. They could have done a much better job at pointing this out.
Nascent English nationalism and rejection of region-based assemblies on the grounds that the regions were arbitrary and associated with the EU. Not all that important in retrospect I think.
It was 2004, in the middle of the Iraq fiasco aftermath, so people were inclined to vote against anything Labour proposed just because Labour proposed it.