Beyond Brexit: Towards a British Constitution
by Vernon Bogdanor (IB Tauris, £20)
The late Lord Bingham once said that “constitutionally speaking, we find ourselves in a trackless desert without any map or compass.” His words still ring true today. Britain’s arrangements are notoriously ad-hoc when compared with other democracies, which codify their rules into single documents. Our constitution, such as it is, was cobbled together over centuries and is a patchwork of precedent and convention.