The New British Constitution Book

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction xi

Part I The Old Constitution

1 A Peculiar Constitution 3

2 The Old Constitution Under Strain 23

Part II The New Constitution

3 The Human Rights Act: Cornerstone of the New Constitution 53

4 Devolution 89

5 Hung Parliaments: Governing Without a Majority 121

6 A Reformed House of Lords? 145

7 The Referendum 173

8 The New Government of London 197

9 Towards a Written Constitution? 215

Part III Beyond The New Constitution

10 A New Localism? 235

11 The Constitutional State 271

12 Towards a Popular Constitutional State: Democracy and Participation 291

Index 311