Tag: New Labour
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Sanjit Nagi: The Stranglehold of New Labour and Lord Irvine’s Rights-based Constitution
Last year’s Supreme Court decision in R (AAA) v Home Secretary – which found the British government’s Rwanda policy to be unlawful – has reignited broader debates about the position of a government which commands a majority in Parliament vis a vis the judiciary, the separation of powers, the extent to which legislating against judicial…
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Mike Gordon and Adam Tucker: Twenty Years On: Assessing the State and Legacy of New Labour’s Constitution
In such frenzied constitutional times – with only a general election resulting in a hung Parliament and a minority government and the start of Brexit negotiations to have kept public law scholars occupied in recent weeks – it is perhaps unsurprising that a significant anniversary passed in May with little acclaim. It has now been…