Reformers need to start thinking differently about constitutional change if they want to build a meaningful democratic framework for the twenty-first century.
The Citizens’ Convention offers a welcome space for public sovereignty over our future constitution – but as currently envisaged, risks side-lining vital questions of national and regional autonomy.
Lord Scarman helped plan the D-Day landings – and in later years was a bold supporter of constitutional reform. We need a little of that spirit again now.
When we lost John Smith, we lost a leader who would have taken Labour and Britain down the path of radical and necessary reform of our constitution and political culture.
