Debates on Constitutional Reform

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Across
  1. 3. Supporters want to replace FPTP with a proportional or hybrid system for Westminster elections.
  2. 8. Leaving the EU increased Parliamentary sovereignty. Critics argue it should be reversed.
  3. 9. Rejected in a North East referendum in 2004.
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  1. 1. Supporters argue this should be extended to England, or that more cities should be given greater self-government.
  2. 2. Critics of assymetric devolution argue the UK needs an… Consider the West Lothian question.
  3. 4. The CRA 2005 was an example of this. Has brought the judges into conflict with Parliamentary Sovereignty (eg in the Miller cases).
  4. 5. In 2025/6 the government is seeking to remove the remaining hereditary peers in this chamber.
  5. 6. Critics of the UK’s constitutional arrangements (organic, evolutionary, multiple sources, no entrenchment) argue the UK constitution should be…
  6. 7. The Conservatives in 2015 and 2017 suggested replacing this with a British Bill of Rights (but never followed through).