Highbrow Mother Goose
Colin Kidd: Constitutional Dramas, 22 February 2024
The Cambridge Constitutional History of the United Kingdom
edited by Peter Cane and Harshan Kumarasingham.
Cambridge, 1178 pp., £160, August 2023,978 1 108 47421 4 Show More
edited by Peter Cane and Harshan Kumarasingham.
Cambridge, 1178 pp., £160, August 2023,
“... to become ministers. This sounds like a minor wrinkle, but as the essays by Michael Gordon and by Rose Melikan show, it had a significant effect on our constitutional principles. An emerging principle of ministerial exclusion was turned on its head and eventually became our notion of ministerial responsibility. Instead of the legislature scrutinising what was ... ”