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    • Wednesday, 30 November, 2022
      Robert Shrimsley
      Reforming democracy could be the next Brexit 

      Pressure for constitutional change is gathering momentum but England could end up paying the price

    • Tuesday, 22 November, 2022
      UK politics & policy
      Labour plans to shake up UK by extending devolution

      Starmer expected to accept Brown review proposals including banning MPs’ second jobs

    • Friday, 28 October, 2022
      Data PointsJohn Burn-Murdoch
      Britain and America’s electoral geographies are broken

      The UK and US systems warp our understanding of key social issues among the public

    • Tuesday, 8 June, 2021
      UK politics & policy
      Boundary review predicted to shore up Tory gains in northern England

      Proposed new constituency map would solidify Conservative ‘red wall’, say strategists

    • Monday, 3 May, 2021
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      The judiciary is not the UK government’s enemy

      Curtailing judicial review will weaken a vital check on executive power

    • Saturday, 16 January, 2021
      Paul Tyler
      How Britain’s democracy is being undermined

      A series of government proposals on the constitution and electoral law disregards consensus

    • Wednesday, 6 January, 2021
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Making UK governance fit for the future

      A key post-Brexit pledge was to increase democratic accountability

    • Monday, 28 December, 2020
      UK constituency boundary shake-up expected to boost Tory party

      Conservatives to gain up to 10 more seats at the next election due to the changes say psephologists

    • Friday, 7 February, 2020
      House of Lords
      Ex-minister adds to pressure over House of Lords reform

      Penny Mordaunt calls for government to abolish principle of male primogeniture

    • Tuesday, 17 December, 2019
      Tories focus on major overhaul of House of Lords

      Johnson’s team examines constitutional reform to help counter Scottish nationalism

    • Wednesday, 11 December, 2019
      Conservative Party UK
      Lawyers fear Tories are planning ‘revenge’ against Supreme Court

      Legal experts raise concern that constitutional review could be used to punish judges for overturning prorogation

    • Saturday, 23 November, 2019
      UK politics & policy
      UK politics is changing to mimic Europe rather than the US

      We are offered a contest between two leaders while trends point to multi-party competition

    • Saturday, 21 September, 2019
      Bernard Jenkin
      End the Speaker’s dictatorship over the House of Commons

      This contentious era requires a rethink of the role’s historic power

    • Thursday, 12 September, 2019
      News in Focus podcast13 min listen
      Is Boris Johnson's decision to suspend parliament legal?

      How the UK courts were dragged into the Brexit dispute

    • Wednesday, 17 April, 2019
      UK local elections
      Electoral Reform Society hits out at ‘democracy deserts’

      Anger that 300 uncontested seats deny voter choice in local polls

    • Thursday, 4 April, 2019
      Philip Stephens
      Goodbye EU, and goodbye the United Kingdom

      The invented identity of ‘Britishness’ is unravelling as English nationalism takes hold

    • Wednesday, 27 March, 2019
      ExplainerBrexit
      How MPs’ indicative votes on Brexit will work

      House of Commons to express view on alternatives to Theresa May’s exit package

    • Monday, 10 September, 2018
      Brexit
      Vote on constituency boundary reform unlikely until after Brexit

      Fear of fresh Tory split set to delay reform that slashes MP numbers by 50

    • Tuesday, 10 July, 2018
      Meg Russell
      Take more care with referendums — democracy depends on it

      There are lessons to be learnt from the UK’s divisive 2016 vote on EU membership

    • Monday, 9 July, 2018
      Brexit
      UK approach to referendums needs ‘overhaul’

      Independent commission says vote should take place after significant preparation

    • Friday, 18 May, 2018
      May appoints new peers despite calls to trim House of Lords

      Nine Tories appointed as critics say consensus on cutting back is being undermined

    • Friday, 18 May, 2018
      Britain after Brexit
      Did the Lords overstep the mark on Brexit?

      The latest government defeat over Withdrawal Bill has aroused the wrath of Brexiters

    • Tuesday, 13 February, 2018
      UK politics opinion polls
      Voters oppose May’s plan to create new peerages

      Poll finds 78% of Tories and 76% of Labour supporters think the House of Lords is ‘too large’

    • Monday, 8 January, 2018
      Brexit
      Theresa May looks to fill Lords to see through Brexit bill

      Creating a dozen new Tory peers could stymie attempts to cut size of chamber

    • Monday, 6 November, 2017
      Janan Ganesh
      Britain is overexposed to its ruling class

      If government is weak, or strong but wrong, little stands between us and its doings

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