EMERGENCY PLANNING

Building from the ground up

Dr Jonathan Carr-West says the energy directed at Brexit could have been focused on other things - and councils should have a settlement with their communities so they can build a stronger national constitutional framework from the bottom up.

The pace of events in British politics is so bewildering that one hesitates to put pen to paper. At the time of writing we are awaiting the Supreme Court judgement on whether the Government's prorogation of Parliament was lawful.

Whichever way that judgement goes, it is unclear what will happen between here and the end of October, let alone beyond.

Jonathan Carr-West

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