Threat to Democracy Final May24

He refused much more dangerous and insidious to accept the findings of his own threat is the deliberate accretion of standards adviser about members of his ever more power at the centre of the cabinet bullying civil servants – leaving executive at the expense of our the Ministerial Code shattered. [...] Dictatorship in the Johnson aftermath’ we analyse the state of the mother of democracies and offer suggestions of how it could be restored to health. [...] agent….’ British democracy has been through an In the Elections Act 2022, Ministers extended nervous breakdown in recent turned this on its head, saying that years and has yet to emerge from the where the candidate and agent claim other side, though it is to be hoped that ignorance of the expenditure by their the coming election might be the national party in supporting their trigger for a gradual. [...] exercised almost unchecked by the Prime Minister, should be rationalised, The Commons itself and not the codified and made fit for the 21st government should allocate Century, with a binding principle that a parliamentary time – a key lever in any PM wishing to use Prerogative powers democracy. [...] A former CEO of the Lib Dems he has over the last decade advised the Parliaments in developing democracies on – among other things – holding the executive to account.