The UK’s constitution is not working

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• Covid-19 pandemic have revealed many structural weaknesses of the British state.

• The first was when the government sought to make the Article 50 notification without parliamentary approval

• there are many cases every day where the institutions of the state are failing properly to perform their respective functions

• Parliament

• has been unable effectively to scrutinise the prolific and confusing law- and rulemaking of the government over the coronavirus crisis.

• Decrees are issued at short notice, sometimes just hours before they take effect.

• Access to the courts to challenge government rules and decisions is constantly being limited.

• the UK’s weak constitutional arrangements. There is no codified constitution, so much rests on convention and self-restraint.

• Every fundamental tension between the elements of the British state

• the government then sought to close down parliament for five weeks without any stated reason

• government sought to take the UK out of the EU without a deal

• Covid-19 pandemic have revealed many structural weaknesses of the British state.