The Bonfire of the Decencies: Repairing and Restoring the British Constitution - Couverture souple

Hennessy, Peter

 
9781913368715: The Bonfire of the Decencies: Repairing and Restoring the British Constitution
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1913368718 ISBN 13 : 9781913368715
Editeur : Haus Publishing, 2022

Synopsis

The British constitution matters. Its observance is crucial to the well-being of all our people, to every state activity and deployment of government power. It is fundamental to sustaining the decencies of British public and political life. These in turn are crucial to the face our society presents to itself and, therefore, to the culture, character, calibre, and influence of our nation.

Yet mechanisms for the upholding of constitutional principles in the United Kingdom are deficient and require an overhaul, argue Blick and Hennessy. The experience of Boris Johnson's premiership between 2019 and 2022 provides the focus for their exploration of this subject. From the outset, Johnson's tenure was a source of serious disruption, which saw standard and integrity compromised and constitutional values violated.

Eventually his own colleagues turned on Johnson. But the problems do not end with his removal. They are part of longer-term tendencies in the UK, and of a worrying international trend towards the weakening of democracy. In this book, Blick and Hennessy analyse the pre-existing vulnerabilities that Johnson exposed in the UK system of government, ending with a series of proposals to repair the damage done and to prevent a repetition of this anxious episode in our political history.

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À propos de l'auteur

Andrew Blick is Professor of Politics and Contemporary History, and Head of Department of Political Economy. He is the editor of The Constitution in Review, a six-monthly analysis of developments in the UK constitution produced by the United Kingdom Constitution Monitoring Group.

Peter Hennessy is one of UK’s leading contemporary historians and is the author of definitive books on the UK’s prime ministers, constitution, civil service, and intelligence agencies. His recent works include Winds of Change: Britain in the Early Sixties and A Duty of Care: Britain Before and After Covid.

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Éditeur
Haus Publishing
Date d'édition
2022
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1913368718
ISBN 13 
9781913368715
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
256
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Personne responsable
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