New edition of Monitor: Starmer takes small steps forward as democratic challenges mount

The latest edition of the Constitution Unit’s regular constitutional review, Monitor, is now available. Published three times a year, Monitor provides a unique round-up and analysis of constitutional developments over the preceding four months.

Monitor 92 is available both online and as a downloadable PDF. Use the online version to find and share the stories that interest you most, or read and print the whole PDF version. 

Among much else, this edition of Monitor covers:

• a crowded legislative programme
• House of Lords reform moving at a snail’s pace
• new reports about House of Commons reform
• the Representation of the People Bill and the opportunities that it provides
• flexible voting pilots
• the People’s Panel for Digital ID
• BBC charter renewal
• the arrests of Lord (Peter) Mandelson and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor
• possible new financial powers for strategic authority mayors and
• political attention on Wales.

Monitor’s lead story by Alan Renwick and Meg Russell can be found on the Unit’s blog. They again call for ‘bolder action to renew the health of democracy’ and suggest that amendments to the Representation of the People Bill may be a way of achieving this.

Image attribution: Keir Starmer (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) by UK Prime Minister.