Abstract
The Article analyses reasons for restrained and reserved politics of regionalisation of England in relation to the New Labour politics of devolution. It stresses main projects of regionalisation of England formulated before 1997, it details circumstances of introduction regionalisation proposals after 1997.
A chosen approach implies a comparative framework which can help to understand how broad set of devolution politics take place in different parts of the United Kingdom under the New Labour government and finds the reasons for unsuccessful North-East referendum. Conclusions of analysis specify the diffences between devolution proposed to Scottish and Welsh societies and administrative decentralisation (or deconcentration) which have been used forEngland.
New Labour was motivated to adopt this „rolling devolution“ poposals to strengthen the role of the center in the process of proposed constitutional changes.