Democracy in the UK after Brexit advisory board

Professor Catherine Barnard

Catherine Barnard is Professor of European Union and Labour Law at the University of Cambridge, Senior Tutor and a Fellow in Law at Trinity College, Cambridge, and Deputy Director of UK in a Changing Europe.

Baroness (Shami) Chakrabarti

Shami Chakrabarti is a former Director of Liberty and former Shadow Attorney General for England and Wales. She sits as a Labour peer in the House of Lords.

Joanna Cherry KC MP

Joanna Cherry has been the SNP MP for Edinburgh South West since 2015 and has served as her party’s Shadow Home Secretary and Shadow Secretary of State for Justice at Westminster. 

Professor Sir John Curtice

John Curtice is Professor of Politics at Strathclyde University, a Senior Fellow at UK in a Changing Europe and a Senior Research Fellow at NatCen Social Research.

Isabel Hardman

Isabel Hardman is Assistant Editor of the Spectator and presenter of The Week in Westminster. She is also the author of The Natural Health Service and Why We Get the Wrong Politicians. 

Frances Foley

Frances Foley is Deputy Director at Compass and previously worked on the Citizens’ Convention on UK Democracy.

Doreen Grove

Doreen Grove is Head of Open Government at the Scottish Government, and is a member of the Open Government Partnership Practice Group on Dialogue and Deliberation.

Professor Katy Hayward

Katy Hayward is Professor of Political Sociology at Queen’s University Belfast and a Senior Fellow of UK in a Changing Europe.

Murray Hunt

Murray Hunt is Director of the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law and a Visiting Professor in Human Rights Law at the University of Oxford.

David Jones MP

David Jones has been the Conservative MP for Clwyd West since 2005. He has been Secretary of State for Wales and a Minister of State at the Department for Exiting the European Union. He is now a member of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee.

Sir Stephen Laws

Sir Stephen Laws was First Parliamentary Counsel between 2006 and 2012. He is currently a Senior Research Fellow on Policy Exchange’s Judicial Power Project.

Professor Laura McAllister

Laura McAllister is Professor of Public Policy and the Governance of Wales in the Wales Governance Centre, Cardiff University.

Professor Anand Menon

Anand Menon is Professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs at King’s College London, and the Director of UK in a Changing Europe.

Cat Smith MP

Cat Smith has been the Labour MP for Lancaster and Fleetwood since 2015. She served as Shadow Secretary of State for Young People and Democracy between 2016 and 2021.

Professor Graham Smith

Graham Smith is Professor of Politics and the Director of the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster.

Lord (Jonathan) Sumption

Jonathan Sumption is a former barrister and was a Justice of the Supreme Court between 2012 and 2018. More recently, he delivered the 2019 BBC Reith Lectures on Law and the Decline of Politics and authored Law in a Time of Crisis.

Dr Patrick Thomas

Patrick Thomas is Constitution Specialist for the House of Commons Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee (PACAC).

Fiona Weir

Fiona Weir is Chief Executive of the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust. Prior to this, she was CEO of Gingerbread and held a number of senior management roles in the voluntary sector.

Dr Hannah White

Hannah White is the Deputy Director of the Institute for Government, and leads the Institute’s work on parliament. She previously worked in the House of Commons and ran the Committee on Standards in Public Life. 

Jeremy Wright KC MP

Jeremy Wright has been the Conservative MP for Kenilworth and Southam (previously Rugby and Kenilworth) since 2005. He has been Attorney General for England and Wales and Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport. He is now a member of the Committee on Standards in Public Life.