But he warned that there could be "huge technical difficulties in identifying what counted as an English law" and the Commons Speaker, whose job it would be to decide, could be drawn into political controversy.
What has always fascinated me about World War I was the fundamental change that this titanic futility worked in the way English-speaking people thought.
What's more, according to that poll, the number of people in England who would now describe themselves as English rather than British stands at 63% - up from 41% in 2008.
And beyond it is a still more alarming thought: suppose English-majority areas in western and southern Quebec were to start taking seriously the idea thatwhat Crees can demand ordinary Anglo-Canadians can too?