My heart is sinking as David Miliband opens the third reading debate on the EU (Amendment) Bill. Yet again all the same old arguments are going to be thrashed out, no doubt at great length, and repetitively. It’s all important, […]

Talking about Tony Blair’s conversion to Rome, I’ve just heard Alastair Campbell on BBC News 24 saying he didn’t know whether constitutionally a catholic could be Prime Minister, his tentative implication being that that might have been one […]

Most discussion of the possibility of a November election assumes that the decision is solely Gordon Brown’s. But is it really that simple? I think not.

It’s the Queen who dissolves Parliament in fact, by issuing a proclamation under […]

Gordon Brown has today made a statement to the House of Commons on his plans for constitutional change – and overall, I have to say it’s a mixed but overall reasonably good package. It’s not as ambitious or radical […]