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The British Constitution: the last ten years and the next fifty - Lord Sumption

Review:“The British Constitution is whatever happens,” declared Lord Sumption, adroitly steering his rapt, full-house audience into the good old-fashioned British muddle of a democracy that somehow functions without a written constitution but very much with a host of politicians prepared to disrupt and destabilise government for their own ends. As he said, “an unwritten constitution leads to complications in constitutional law.”