The constitution of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (known generally but inexactly as the “British constitution”) was until recently a dull subject. Textbooks on ...

Debate over the British government's controversial Rwanda bill has once again raised the question of whether a written constitution would help or hinder the process to allow the deportation of illegal ...

The extraordinary events of the past 48 hours in London have shown the vulnerability of constitutional systems that rely heavily on the expectation that key figures will abide by conventional rules of ...

A Commons Select Committee has called for members of the British public to send them a model Preamble for a new UK constitution. Anthony Barnett tries his hand. Last year the Select Committee for ...

The decision to resort to a referendum to decide on the UK’s EU membership was always going to lead to difficulties. The bitter divisions it opened up undermined two key features of the UK’s ...

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Above all, sovereignty and power in the British constitution has not been a matter for the courts, as in many codified systems, but has rather been established and maintained by political struggle, ...

AT SOME POINT in June or July roughly 124,000 people in Britain can expect to receive a ballot paper in the post. It will offer them the names of two Conservative MPs. The one they select will, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The British constitution has faced its greatest determined assault since the ...