Tag: Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010
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Keith Ewing: A Review of the Miller Decision
I Shortly after the referendum on 23 June, demands were made that continuing EU membership should now be considered by Parliament, with a view it seems to stop BREXIT happening, and to frustrate the will of the 17 million who voted to leave. Indeed, the Guardian carried an article only five days later on ‘How…
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Kenneth Armstrong: Bootstrapping Brexit: A European Rescue of the Nation State?
In a report published on 20th October, the European Union Select Committee of the House of Lords set out the argument for close parliamentary scrutiny of the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union. The central claim made in the report is that a middle path may be found between the Government’s apparent preference for retrospective…
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Nick Barber: The Special Adviser Who Wasn’t.
Much has, and surely will, be written about the strange case of the Defence Minister, Liam Fox, his friend, Adam Werritty, and a philanthropic bunch of rich people and foreign governments, all of whom were bound together in a complicated and rather unclear mixture of holidays, chance meetings, and informal chats. Following the Report by…