Tag: Labour
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Erin Ferguson: Bringing Back the State: Labour’s Plans for (Re)Nationalisation*
The King’s Speech on 17 July outlined the newly elected Labour government’s plans for the United Kingdom, including 39 Bills that it intends to introduce in this parliamentary session. Among these are included ambitious plans for the re-nationalisation of passenger railway services, the establishment of a publicly owned clean power company, and special measures to…
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Tarun Khaitan: A Fourth Branch of the State? On Constitutional Guarantors in the UK
It is believed to be one of the chief merits of the American system of written constitutional law, that all the powers intrusted to government, whether State or national, are divided into the three grand departments, the executive, the legislative, and the judicial. Kilbourn v Thompson (1881) 103 US 168, 190 (emphasis added) In its…
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Adam Tucker: Entrenchment, Parliamentary Sovereignty, and the Limited Radicalism of the Brown Report
The publication of the Report of the Commission on the UK’s Future is attracting widespread attention. The centrepiece of its constitutional content is the replacement of the House of Lords with a new second chamber with new composition and a reformed role, which would have particular responsibility for territorial aspects of the constitution (discussed here) and act as guardian…