Over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, Manchester United footballer Marcus Rashford has been credited with being instrumental […]
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We might wonder whether it is worth writing about the rules of ministerial responsibility under the current government […]
The Speaker speaks On 30 September the Speaker made a formal statement excoriating the Government. He told the […]
If Boris Johnson is to be believed – and obviously he wouldn’t lie about anything – Covid-19 nearly […]
The Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 (hereafter the FTPA) removed the Prime Minister’s power to unilaterally trigger a general […]
This is the second of a two-part discussion of this theme. The first part addressed the obligations under […]
This is the first of a two-part discussion of this theme. This first part addresses the obligations under […]
(Let’s be clear. Why is an Australian constitutional lawyer writing about the UK Constitution? It’s simple. She’s our […]
On 24 September, the UK Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the Prime Minister’s advice to prorogue Parliament was […]
Boris Johnson seems caught in an impossible bind. The European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 2) Act – the Benn […]
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