Anthony Barnett (London, OK): This argument heads Britain in the direction of a presidential system - but without an independent legislature:
Parliamentary rules should be changed to allow Lord Mandelson to be answerable to the House of Commons, MPs have said.
The Commons business and enterprise committee said that following Lord Mandelson's appointment as business secretary there had been no one to come to the despatch box to answer MPs' questions on the brief.
Anthony is the honorary president of openDemocracy. He was its founding editor-in-chief (2001-7), the co-director of The Convention on Modern Liberty (2009) and the first director of Charter 88 (1988-95). His most recent books are ‘The Lure of Greatness: England's Brexit and America's Trump’ (2017) and ‘Taking Control!: Humanity and America after Trump and the Pandemic’ (2022). He is a trustee of openTrust. His collected articles can be found on Authory and he posts on X at @AnthonyBarnett
