Part of the Public Policy Research Seminar Series
| When |
Jan 21, 2016
from 12:30 PM to 01:30 PM |
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| Where | Room 119, Alison Richard Building |
| Contact Name | Charlotte Sausman |
| Attendees |
All welcome |
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Abstract
Since the UK has no codified constitution, nothing can be unconstitutional. This has advantages and disadvantages. Flexibility is an advantage. Two disadvantages are lack of rights protection and lack of longstops to prevent unintended consequences. Nobody intended to produce a UK minus Scotland outside the EU and an independent Scotland inside it; but that is a possible scenario for the period 2016-20.
Iain McLean FBA FRSE is Senior Research Fellow in Politics
Director, Gwilym Gibbon Centre for Public Policy
Professor of Politics, Oxford University
Vice-President for Public Policy, British Academy