A single vote will take us out of the EU, quite possibly without Parliament’s explicit consent. Davina Cooper asks whether a referendum based purely on individual Leave/Remain votes was the best we can do – or whether a more deliberative system, which would demand more engagement from the public, could produce a more considered outcome.
A fight has been raging since Brexit over […]
The High Court has ensured the government cannot trigger Brexit without parliamentary approval, write Dimitrios Giannoulopoulos, Geoffrey Nice QC, Ben Chigara, Julian Petley, Ignacio de la Rasilla and Katja Sarmiento-Mirwaldt, on behalf of the Britain in Europe think tank. If the Supreme Court upholds the ruling, MPs and peers now have a responsibility to scrutinise the government’s plans and not […]
If the recent high court ruling on Brexit is upheld, then MPs in the UK Parliament will have to approve the decision to trigger Article 50 and begin the process for leaving the European Union. But how would this vote actually take place and what influence will Parliament have over the negotiations? Based on a recent report, Sara Hagemann assesses Parliament’s […]
On 3 November, the Divisional Court upheld a legal challenge brought against the government by Gina Miller and others, and ruled that the government cannot use the royal prerogative to trigger Article 50 EU Treaty, and so leave the EU, without reference to Parliament. The Court’s judgment means that the process must be subject to full parliamentary control and […]
Despite the fact that most parliamentarians, business leaders and even Brexiters themselves don’t want it, Anand Menon argues we are heading for a hard Brexit – thanks both to the relatively good performance of the economy, the intransigence of public opinion about migration and the fact EU leaders want to deter populist movements.
What sort of Brexit might the government […]
Many commentators have ascribed Donald Trump’s success to working-class ‘losers from globalisation’ living in rustbelt towns, who have suffered job losses and stagnating wages. But Eric Kaufmann argues that, as with Brexit, there’s little evidence that the vote had much to do with personal economic circumstances. The true driver of support for Trump is a preference for order over novelty and a consequent […]
When challenged about its claimed right to initiate the process of taking the UK out of the EU without Parliamentary consent, Theresa May’s government has relied on two arguments, one legal and one political. The first is that the renunciation of treaties, such as the Treaty of Rome, is under the UK’s largely unwritten constitution an executive privilege of government. […]
In an earlier post on this blog, Professor Conor Gearty of LSE argued that even post-Brexit the UK will not be able to remove European Union citizens from the UK unless the country withdraws also from the European Convention on Human Rights. Paul Skinner does not consider that this conclusion is correct. He argues, in essence, that the protection afforded […]
Some of the recent reactions to the Article 50 judgment in the High Court are frankly frightening. Gavin Phillipson asks whether rightwing politicians and journalists attach any value at all to what we call ‘the rule of law’ or ‘the independence of the judiciary’? He worries that they are out simply to bully the judges and whip up hatred against […]
There is a future to be had for the Welsh independence movement. Wales’ vote in favour of Brexit was not a one in favour of centralising more power in Westminster. At the same time Labour, that has dominated the country political scene, finds its formula of civic Welsh nationalism increasingly untenable. Samuel Parry writes that but for the virtual non-existence […]
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