Succession to the Crown Act

In his post, The Succession to the Crown Act 2013 has landed, published on the UCL Constitution Unit’s website and cross-posted by L&RUK here, Bob Morris offers an overview of the Act and explains why it has taken so long to come into effect. He concludes that whilst the fifteen other Commonwealth states with which the UK shares its monarchy have become independent of the UK, the UK has not become independent of them. Not what decolonisation was thought to be about but it is what – in these aspects at least – we have got. Accordingly, it is partly for religious reasons that the UK consented to continuing monarchical forms in certain independent states rather than in others at the cost of some of its own constitutional freedom, and we are reminded of this by the Succession to the Crown Act 2013.

Tough on human rights, tough on the causes of human rights…

Under the strapline “scrap the Human Rights Act and curtail the role of the European Court of Human Rights, so that foreign criminals can be more easily deported from Britain” the Conservative Manifesto declares that a future Conservative Government

“… will scrap the Human Rights Act, Continue reading →