The Financial Times

Brexit tests the British constitution

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 ...
openDemocracy

Opening up a new British constitution

Last year the Select Committee for Political and Constitutional Reform published a bulky report with a question as its title: A New Magna Carta? The Committee’s Chairman Graham Allen MP launched it in ...
The Irish Times

Making sense of the British constitution

Sir, – With the greatest of respect to such an eminent jurist, Jonathan Sumption's spirited defence of the British constitution (Letters, September 4th) from Fintan O'Toole's critique (Opinion & ...
openDemocracy

Brexit and the British constitution: it doesn't work

Chairman of the 1922 Committee announcing Theresa May's survival of attempt by Tory MPs to oust her with a motion of no confidence at the Houses of Parliament ...
The Irish Times

Brexit may have just killed the British constitution

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 ...