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Labour peer PAULINE BRYAN’s contribution to the This is What Democracy Looks Like conference on August 31

I READ a sentence in an article in the Morning Star that helped explain why our constitution is in such a mess.

Nathan Akehurst, writing about the current constitutional wrangle, said: “There is a creaking old system to which democracy is a recent add-on.”

Britain did not have a “constitutional moment” when circumstances obliged it to codify the rules under which it would operate.

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