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David Cameron’s Constitutional Reform Agenda

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Bouncybon says: 10 May 2010 17:11

With our "Hung Parliament" situation (one day after the May 6, 2010 General Election)this lecture is extremely interesting and helpful.

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15 Mar 2010 @ 12:45

David Cameron’s Constitutional Reform Agenda

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Professor Robert Hazell is the Founder and Director of the Constitution Unit at University College London, the UK's foremost independent research body on constitutional change. Previously he was Director of the Nuffield Foundation (1989-1995) and before that a senior civil servant in the Home Office (1975-89). He started his career as a barrister (1973-75).

Professor Hazell’s expertise extends to the entire constitutional reform agenda, including devolution in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the English regions; freedom of information; parliamentary reform; Lords reform; a British bill of rights; referendums; electoral reform; the Crown and royal prerogative; constitutional watchdogs; and the process of constitutional reform itself. He has been closely involved in every stage of New Labour’s twelve-year programme of constitutional reform and in 2006 was awarded the CBE for these services.

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The Conservatives have said that in government they would attempt among other things to reform disparities between constituency populations, address the ‘West Lothian Question’ by giving English MPs more power over laws that affect only England, replace the Human Rights Act with a British Bill of Rights, amend the European Communities Act to prohibit the transfer of power to the EU without a referendum, and pass a Sovereignty Act to assert the ultimate authority of the national parliament.

This is an ambitious programme with potentially transformative implications for the United Kingdom, its relationship with the EU, and Anglo-Irish relations. It also presents formidable political and technical obstacles. As one of Britain’s leading constitutional experts, Professor Hazell is authoritatively placed to analyse these plans.

This event forms part of the IIEA’s series in 2009 and 2010 on the Conservative Party’s platform and their implications for the UK, Ireland, and Europe.

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