Brexit: the constitutional fallout
1 July 2016
Amid the turmoil of post-referendum politics, a voice of reasoned argument: Hertford’s constitutional lawyer Dr Alison Young has written a blog for the UK Constitutional Law association on the immediate constitutional issues around the much-mentioned Article 50.
If there is no ability to find a legal or a conventional constitutional obligation for legislation or parliamentary consultation, there is at least a good argument, in terms of political expediency, for wider consultation by the Prime Minister before an exercise of the prerogative power to trigger Article 50….