Over the past century there has been an enormous growth in the number of publicly available codes providing accounts of various constitutional rules and principles. In a new bookAndrew Blick explores this phenomenon and its implications for the UK constitution. He offers an overview here.
Towards the end of this year the Cabinet Office marks its hundredth anniversary. This institution traces its origins to the secretariat David Lloyd George attached to the war cabinet he formed upon becoming Prime Minister in December 1916. Accounts of this administrative innovation tend to focus on its making possible the proper recording and circulation of the decisions of cabinet and its sub-committees. But the instigation of the war cabinet secretariat also prompted another process that has, in the intervening century, become a prominent feature of arrangements for the governance of the UK. It is the subject of my new book, The Codes of…
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