Brexit and the UK Constitution is a concise edited collection from the Constitution Society surveying the impact of Brexit 10 years after the UK voted to leave the European Union. Made up of three essays from experts on immigration, the economy … [Read more...] about Brexit and the UK Constitution
Professor Catharine Barnard and Joël Reland survey changes in regulation in the ten years since the EU referendum in this landmark report for the Constitution Society and the Federal Trust. They argue that in practice the EU and the United Kingdom … [Read more...] about Brexit and Regulation
The United Kingdom Constitution Monitoring Group (UKCMG), established in 2020, is made up of members with practical experience and academic knowledge of the UK constitution. Its formation was driven in part by concern about declining adherence to … [Read more...] about The Constitution in Review – Volume 2 Issue 3
Brexit and Immigration: The Arc of the Pendulum, published jointly by The Constitution Society and the Federal Trust, tackles the role immigration policy played in causing Brexit, and that Brexit has since played in driving UK immigration … [Read more...] about Brexit and Immigration: The Arc of the Pendulum
A report from the United Kingdom Constitution Monitoring Group, covering 1 January to 30 June, 2025 The United Kingdom Constitution Monitoring Group (UKCMG) comprises experts and practitioners covering a range of areas of the UK constitution. Its … [Read more...] about The Constitution in Review, Volume 2 – Issue 2
British democracy is blighted by low and unequal turnout. The last general election saw overall turnout of registered voters fall to 59.8%, and this number masks stark disparities in turnout rates on the basis of class, race, age, and housing … [Read more...] about Universal Suffrage? The problem of low and unequal turnout and the case for compulsory voting
A new report from John Springford, commissioned by the Constitution Society and the Federal Trust, analyses the economic impact of Brexit nine years after the UK voted to leave the EU. The Economic Impact of Brexit performs a ‘Brexit audit’, … [Read more...] about The Economic Impact of Brexit, Nine Years On: Was the Consensus Right?
Young people studying in secondary schools in England are coming of age amidst acute global anxieties about the robustness of democratic systems. UK politics and government across the lifetime of a current English teenager has been characterised by … [Read more...] about Building Constitutional Literacy in Schools to Empower Future Citizens
A Report from the United Kingdom Constitution Monitoring Group, covering 5 July to 31 December, 2024 The preceding six issues of the Constitution in Review published by the UKCMG covered the period from the commencement of the 2019 Parliament to … [Read more...] about The Constitution in Review, Volume 2 – Issue 1
This report is the sixth released by the United Kingdom Constitution Monitoring Group. It covers the 12 months of July 2023 to July 2024 and consequently the last year in office of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservative government. While … [Read more...] about The Constitution in Review 6
How do the concepts of democratic accountability and government stability complement and stand in tension with one another in the United Kingdom’s parliamentary system? How do these interactions affect parliamentarianism? In this report, Binendri … [Read more...] about Semi-Presidentialisation and Executive Accountability: A Cautionary Tale from Sri Lanka to the UK
In a pioneering report, Dr David McCann considers the role of the media in reporting and shaping the constitutional debate in Northern Ireland. Reporting the Divide surveys existing material and then relies on interviews with key figures across … [Read more...] about Reporting the Divide: The Media and the Constitutional Debate in Northern Ireland
