Brexiteers camapigned saying parliament should have control - but are reluctant to make good on that promise. One of the key messages that the Leave campaign pushed during the referendum campaign was the British parliament was 'taking back control'. This was always a misrepresentation of the nature of British parliamentary sovereignty. Parliament - which constitutionally is composed of the House of Lords, the House of Commons and the Monarch-in-Parliament - is the all-powerfu

The Conservatives are in government, but not in power. How long can this carry on? The Conservative Party Conference returns to Birmingham at the beginning of October, only a couple of year since it was last here. In the interim much has changed. The Conservative Party is, like all the others, a coalition of interests bound together by the vagaries of our First-Past-the-Post electoral system. Under what other electoral circumstances would slipper wearing jazz-bothering europh

Brexit has the potential to ground the Labour Party for good. The Labour Party has fared worse from the vote to leave the EU than any other party. That might seem like hyperbole considering that the Conservatives had their Prime Minister resign less than a year after winning a first election victory for 18 years. Yet political power has a curiously cohesive quality and the Tories are still united - in public at least. The Labour Party faces an existential crisis for which the

Brexit has taken a hammer to our political norms. Where damage has been done to the different political parties? The dust has started to settle on the referendum vote on Britain’s relationship with the EU. At this point it seems appropriate to reach for the hyperbole – a most historic moment in British history, a decision that changes everything, a revolution, even. The referendum vote is undoubtedly a marker, and a significant political event. There were numerous reasons for