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Select committee recommendations data now available

22/09/2020

Our data on government responses to select committee recommendations on Brexit are now available. They are analysed in our article Select Committees and Brexit: Parliamentary Influence in a Divisive Policy Area. More details of the data and how to download them are on our Data…

Parliament and Brexit report released

Research from our project features in a new report on Parliament and Brexit, published by the UK in a Changing Europe, University College London’s Constitution Unit and the University of Leicester. The report explores key questions about how Parliament adjusts to a post-Brexit context. It…

‘The People’s Government’: taking back control

17/12/2019

Adam Cygan   Since the EU referendum ‘taking back control’ has been the simple Brexit mantra. But, understanding what ‘taking back control’ means in the context of the UK’s constitution has proved more difficult. Theresa May said that Brexit would mean that the UK is…

A bad night for Remain, but an even worse night for the...

Adam Cygan   The Liberal Democrats stood on a manifesto commitment that was unashamedly Remain, with statement that the ‘election of a Liberal Democrat majority government on a clear stop Brexit platform will provide a democratic mandate to stop this mess, revoke Article 50 and…