The UK’s Post-Brexit ‘Constitutional Unsettlement’

<p>The tortuous process of Brexit is complete. The UK has left the EU, and Boris Johnson and the Conservative party now enjoy a commanding majority in the House of Commons after several years of unstable minority governments. However, Brexit has opened up a number of constitutional fault-lines...

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Main Author: Colm O'Cinneide
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog GmbH
Series:Verfassungsblog
Online Access:https://verfassungsblog.de/the-uks-post-brexit-constitutional-unsettlement/
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Summary:<p>The tortuous process of Brexit is complete. The UK has left the EU, and Boris Johnson and the Conservative party now enjoy a commanding majority in the House of Commons after several years of unstable minority governments. However, Brexit has opened up a number of constitutional fault-lines, which have not closed with UK departure from the EU: indeed, if anything, they have continued to widen. This has accelerated a process that had started even before the ‘Leave’ vote in the June 2016 referendum &#8211; namely the ‘unsettling’ of the once famously stable British constitutional order.</p>
ISSN:2366-7044