C onstitution Unit Monitor 83 / March 2023 - Sunak’s constitutional

Part of the government’s stated motivation for The Counsellors of State Act introducing the bill was a desire to strengthen the right to free speech, but the committee was critical of both Experts have long pointed to the need for additional the bill’s definition of speech and the concept of putting Counsellors of State, who are senior members of the free speech on a ‘pedestal’ above other rights. [...] The Brown report also recommended that the machinery of intergovernmental relations should be put on a Other localities referenced in the Levelling Up the statutory footing, in the form of a new Council of the United Kingdom white paper have yet to agree a deal, Nations and Regions (not to be confused with the including Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire, Devon, Assembly of the Nations and Regi. [...] and the rest of the system would remain reserved to Polling conducted by Ipsos in the aftermath of Westminster, contrary to the current policy of the Welsh the resignation of Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Labour government. [...] The work of the expert committee and the Constitutional Council will be overseen by a technical committee – appointed by parliament – that will have the task of ensuring that the resulting text is consistent with the 12 principles of the Agreement. [...] Although both main parties were The report examines public attitudes on many topics, divided by the referendum, the book concludes that including the role of parliament, the future of the House Brexit was first and foremost an argument inside the of Lords, voting reform, and the role of the judiciary Conservative Party, but that when it came to the fallout, in politics.