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Can civil society help people take back control?

It's time for a new British constitution.

Can civil society help people take back control?
The Lord Chancellor handing the speech to the Queen | Roger Harris/House of Lords 2015
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“We are in the white-water rapids of a political crisis taking constitutional form,” Anthony Barnett opened his speech at last week’s conference on Remaking the UK Constitution. “Everyone is saying the system is broken.”

A hundred constitutional experts agreed, convened in Oxford by the Bonavero Institute of Human rights, the Constitution Unit at UCL and the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law.