One of the problems with the Tory party is that it has not taken on board that people are a lot more clued up than they were in the golden age of Thatcher and they have developed an instinct to see through the wily schemes of politicians, who now rank top of the list of untrustworthy citizens. The proposal to give English MPs a ‘veto’ on legislation affecting England only, is a good example.
The only way to deal with the question of English votes for English laws is to turn the House of Commons into an English parliament and replace the House of Lords with an elected UK Parliament with responsibility for the currency, defence, national security and other issues affecting the whole of the UK collectively. It would also act as a revising chamber for each of the national parliaments. All the countries making up the UK would then have their own parliaments do deal with devolved affairs and there would be a proper democratic assembly for policy affecting all of them together.
The Tories know that they have a natural majority in England (it is curtains for them if they don’t because they are hardly represented anywhere else) and they could therefore block anything a Labour led coalition, which might include a big clutch of Scot Nats, put before the House which affected England, which would be everything of importance. This would make the county almost ungovernable and lead to political instability unknown before. The Tory business community would not like that at all.