Things were different in 2010. If schools closed and households found themselves stuck indoors, or unable to travel […]
Category Archive: Constitutional reform
Fresh from inaugurating its Independent Review of Administrative Law, this government is still not finished with the judiciary, […]
We might wonder whether it is worth writing about the rules of ministerial responsibility under the current government […]
Since the Conservative government’s landslide victory in the 2019 general election, constitutional reform has been on top of […]
Clearly, liberal democracy is at a crossroad. Many are dissatisfied with the state of political affairs in their […]
Arguments for and against a single written (or ‘codified’) UK constitution often revolve around flexibility versus rigidity or […]
Parliament can do anything – except replace the House of Lords? For over a century, replacing the House […]
The Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 (hereafter the FTPA) removed the Prime Minister’s power to unilaterally trigger a general […]
At the beginning of Democracy in America, de Tocqueville writes that in studying democracy its “…Faults strike one […]
Introduction: Multiple votes, one referendum Even before the vote on 23 June 2016, questions were raised about the […]
