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Unit Director and @UKandEU Senior Fellow Meg Russell is speaking this morning at the @ipsa_aisp #ipsadisrupt conference.
The UK is famously a parliamentary democracy, but by late 2019 parliament was under sustained attack. What happened?
Parliamentary sovereignty is core to our constitution: parliament sits at the apex. But EU membership & the
use of referendums have complicated this principle.
Parliamentary sovereignty is core to our constitution: parliament sits at the apex. But EU membership & the
use of referendums have complicated this principle.
Post-2016, parliament was tasked with interpreting and implementing the Brexit vote. Years of minority government and Brexit battles were followed in late 2019 by an unlawful prorogation & a general election in which the Conservatives used blatantly anti-parliamentary language.
This year, Coronavirus has complicated the story further. Conservative backbenchers have fought back against government decisions - but the government has also taken sweeping powers to respond to the pandemic. Has the pandemic strengthened the executive, or parliament?
The last few years have illuminated ambiguities in the idea of parliamentary sovereignty
Over whom? Judges? EU? And referendums complicate the relationship between parliament & people
Of whom? Parliamentary sovereignty ≠ executive sovereignty. In the UK, they are often elided
Over whom? Judges? EU? And referendums complicate the relationship between parliament & people
Of whom? Parliamentary sovereignty ≠ executive sovereignty. In the UK, they are often elided
There are clear similarities between recent UK events and the international experience of populism.
The EU has often been UK populists' external 'enemy'. Post-Brexit, they have turned increasingly to attacking the UK's own democratic institutions: a domestication of populism.
The EU has often been UK populists' external 'enemy'. Post-Brexit, they have turned increasingly to attacking the UK's own democratic institutions: a domestication of populism.
