This weekend we will see the next stage of the lifting of lockdown, with pubs, hotels and campsites preparing to open again from Saturday 4th. All except in poor Leicester, which will be continuing the current phase of lockdown as part of the Government’s plan to impose local lockdowns on coronavirus hotspots. These local lockdowns […]
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One of the most famous and lauded articles of Magna Carta, generally (if perhaps a little inaccurately) considered to be a foundational document of rights in England and Wales and respected around the world, is Article 39. It reads, in translation from the Latin: “No free man shall be captured, and or imprisoned, or disseised
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Westminster now seems to be back in more or less full swing, and we are starting to see the return before Parliament of several of the key Government bills trailed before the coronavirus emergency kicked off. Much of the new legislation is functional enabling legislation related to Brexit (remember that?!). In the Lords particularly, increasing
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One of the biggest (and most timely) stories from a busy week of news has been the debate over the missing pages from a report on Covid-19 disparities. The missing pages detailed much needed recommendations to protect black, Asian and minority ethnic communities from coronavirus, as these communities have been much harder hit by the
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Of the many news stories that dropped this week, one particularly drew our attention as being somewhat underestimated in its importance. On Tuesday, Boris Johnson stood before the House of Commons and announced (the story having been thoroughly pre-trailed to the press) the upcoming merger of the Department for International Development into the Foreign and
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I want to lead this Week in Parliament with the Scottish Parliament, which this week debated the Cabinet Secretary for the Constitution, Europe and External Affairs’ report on the Coronavirus Acts. Amongst the general report on the current status of the statutory framework, the point was raised that submissions to the Scottish Parliament’s Justice Cub-Committee
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Those of you who have been around for a while will recall that at the beginning of the year, my colleague Sarah and I published a review of the central government consultations of 2019, looking at their source, number and status. In the background we have been continuing that tracking work, and thought we might
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This week, we saw Parliament return to in-person voting after the government called an end to the successful online voting system that they had previously put in place to attempt to mitigate the risks of coronavirus infection in Parliament. Quite apart from the spectacle of 650 MPs queueing at an appropriate social distance for 1.5km
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This week’s ‘The Week in Parliament’ might better be titled ‘The Week out of Parliament’, as Parliament is going to feature remarkably little, primarily because of the parliamentary recess. But also, because I want to talk about That Story. You know the one I’m talking about. Now I want to make it clear, that I
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As it’s a bank holiday weekend, I thought we’d take a quick look, external to the regular Week in Parliament, at something else that cropped up this week and caused me some amusement. On Wednesday, the House of Lords performed scrutiny on the newly introduced Weights and Measures Act 1985 (Definitions of “Metre” and “Kilogram”)
A heavy hitting consultation or the easiest diet in history? Read More »
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