Constitutional Crisis in the UK?
Ask a group of British people about their constitution and you will receive a wide variety of responses. It is clear that the UK doesn't have a single codified document as a constitution like, for instance, the USA or France. The implementation process for Brexit is changing the way that the British constitution works, tearing up some of the principles upon which the UK constitution functions and allowing Parliamentary sovereignty to do whatever it likes with only a modicum of oversight from the Supreme Court. British citizens or subjects can, therefore, rely on nothing to protect them from a future, or maybe current, imperious government. Lawyers in training will often point to UK constitutional law as being the thickest book they need to study for their examinations. One retired lawyer, though not a specialist in constitutional law, pointed to constitutional lawyers such as TB Smith, JDB Mitchell and Neil MacCormack as being the people he would reference: 'all argu