The Constitution Committee has published a report on the Health and Social Care Bill. The remit of the committee is confined to the constitutional implications of the Bill and we are concerned that the Bill, in its current form, risks diluting the Government’s constitutional responsibilities with regard to the NHS. You can read the report…
Monthly Archives: October 2011
Winds of change
by Lord Soley • • 38 Comments
We are living through a time of rapid and dramatic political and economic change. The financial crisis that hit the West has done enormous damage not just to the world economy but also to the reputation of the West as economic managers. Britain suffered additional problems because of the central importance of London as an…
The quiz: The Lords and the EU
by Lord Norton • • 11 Comments
I have just come from a conference on ‘European Disunion: The Multidimensional Power Struggles’, so I thought that the topic of the European Union would be a good base for this week’s quiz. As usual, the first two readers to supply the correct answers will be the winners. 1. Name at least four members of the…
