Andrew Marr Interviews Jeremy Corbyn
Sometimes nerdy political historians and political scientists could be accused of enjoying political shenanigans or borderline constitutional crises, like the Prorogation-Coalition Controversy of 2008, because they’re “interesting.” They are indeed interesting. But they are, more importantly, instructive and revealing.
I have experienced such a “teachable moment” myself over the Fixed-Term Parliaments Act and its procedure for early dissolution that requires a two-thirds super-majority in favour of the motion “That there by an early parliamentary election.” I’ve been following this issue of fixed-date elections in Canada and fixed-term parliaments in the United Kingdom for over five years, but this idea did not occur to me until I saw the Fixed-Term Parliaments Act in action — and it would probably never have occurred to me unless I had seen it in action. I used to regard these European-style fixed-term parliaments laws as vastly different in principle from…
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