He argues for “a fundamental realignment of Government, Parliament and Civil Service.”
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A new report by the Society of Conservative Lawyers argues that prior Parliamentary approval for military action is a dangerous game and has no constitutional law basis.
It would be responsible for promoting the British brand right across the country – and there is a lot to promote.
If the United Kingdom’s negotiating position appears incoherent, much of the blame rests with those who put the legislature in charge.
Cardiff Bay has incubated an insular cartel whose hostility to reform is delivering public apathy and policy failure.
Our Government alone isn’t entitled to finalise a deal. It must have Parliamentary endorsement. And this Commons rejected the deal by a record margin.
We want to learn from what other Parliaments have done when faced with difficult choices. Such an assembly would report back within ten weeks.
Between the idea and the reality, between the motion and the act, falls the shadow.
He would have the right to a full ballot of the local membership. But an already strained local relationship, combined with Brexit, makes it an uphill struggle.
The constitutional crisis MPs are threatening to bring down on all our heads will have wide-ranging and severe consequences.
The object of the exercise is to absorb within a stable democratic practice a new element which, if unabsorbed, may have fatal effects.
Why not give the electorate the chance to pass judgement directly on Sinn Fein and the DUP’s ‘red lines’?