I am interested by the debate put forward today: "General Debate on the Principles of Democracy and the Rights of the Electorate". This could go a number of ways, but it seems like a day de… (View Post)

HYUFD, you know this binds future PMs (unless the commons changes the law to allow itself to be prorogued)? So it doesn't just stop Johnson now. It stops any PM in the future from proroguing par… (View Post)

The tension seems to arise really from the FTPA; without this act the PM would have just called an election rather than prorogue parliament, and that would have been the release valve for the current… (View Post)

Where Keen and Eadie are starting is problematic. They argue this is not an issue for the courts because, if parliament really cared, they could have VoNCd or called an election. But this doesn'… (View Post)

This SC case is super interesting for our constitutional norms. Listening to the "Talking Politics" podcast this morning really brought that to light to me. One of the contributors, Helen T… (View Post)