Albertans will head to the polls this autumn to vote on whether to hold a referendum on seceding from Canada. Leah Trueblood explains how this ‘vote about a vote’ came about, why the ‘two vote’ structure is different from that put forward by the Independent Commission on Referendums, and suggests that the approach of the Government of Alberta is actually opposed to both the spirit and substance of the Commission’s recommendations.

When it published its report in 2022, one of the main recommendations of the Brown Commission, established by the Labour Party to examine the future governance of the UK, was for the replacement of t....

Twenty-seven years of devolution have disappointed hopes that the Scottish parliament would foster a fresh “new politics” in Scotland. Voter turnout collap

In a forthcoming article in Public Law, Nicholas Kilford and I examine three leading UK Supreme Court decisions that have subjected the principle of parliamentary sovereignty to notably unorthodox …

These visualisations from exclusive polling modelling show how the UK parliament could change under different voting systems

Declan McLean considers the future of the Scottish Parliament after May's elections and reckons it's time for reform of the institution.

Declan McLean argues against the introduction of call lists to the Westminster parliament and compares the situation with Holyrood.

Research has been carried out by a team at Cardiff University

New sentencing guidelines for England and Wales address gender and ethnicity but ignore poverty

The Constitution Unit has today published a major new report, The Constitutional Landscape: Options for Reform, by Lisa James, Patrick Thomas, Alan Renwick and Meg Russell.

Unions delighted that there has been no watering down of plans, which will apply to England, Scotland and Wales Trade unions declared victory on Tuesday as Labour bolstered a string of measures in its workers’ rights bill, amid criticism of the…

This paper provides an overview of the constitutional status and functions of the law officers of the United Kingdom. This includes the law officers of the UK Government and those that advise the thre...

Information from UK Parliament on written questions & answers, written statements and daily reports.

Tony Blair’s vision of a technologically innovative economy could save the ailing state.

Following Rachel Reeves’ decisions on taxation, spending and borrowing, this was always going to be a “big” budget. The Welsh Government had significantly more funding to allocate than was expected…