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Originally Posted by Hugh
And there we’ll have to agree to disagree - we either have Parliamentary Sovereignty, even if we disagree with how our Sovereign Parliament utilises it, or we don’t...
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The British constitution has never been that binary, or so unyielding, as I’m sure you’re aware. Being unwritten, it is both stable and also flexible. Parliament called its own sovereignty into question by authorising such a referendum.
The constitutional understanding of parliamentary sovereignty has changed before and can change again - I would much rather parliament had not caused it to be challenged in this way, but they did, and now the question of where parliament’s sovereignty ultimately arises from, and how long parliament can go on frustrating the clearly expressed will of the electorate, remains open. It might just make our next constitutional crisis that much harder to resolve.