{"id":1599,"date":"2007-06-28T14:07:53","date_gmt":"2007-06-28T14:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/06\/28\/browns-first-cock-up-the-british-constitution\/"},"modified":"2007-06-28T15:29:53","modified_gmt":"2007-06-28T15:29:53","slug":"browns-first-cock-up-the-british-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/06\/browns-first-cock-up-the-british-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"Brown’s first cock-up: the British constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update note:<\/strong> It’s entirely possible that there should be a question-mark in the headline to this post. He’s not stupid enough to have made this move without thinking it through, but I can’t for the life of me work out what he’s got planned.<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n

Update 2:<\/strong> This post is now largely obsolete, and so has been edited down – Jack Straw is indeed Lord Chancellor<\/a>. Had a bit of a scare there though – and it’s still very confusing…<\/p>\n

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Via email and the like, I’ve been having heated discussions with a couple of mates about precisely what’s happened to the office of Lord Chancellor in this reshuffle. It looks rather like Brown may have made a major cock-up, and the current TV coverage hasn’t mentioned it a jot.<\/p>\n

[Update edit – removed paragraph]<\/p>\n

There is, technically, no constitutional reason why Jack Straw couldn’t be Lord Chancellor while remaining in the Commons, from what I can tell. But it’d be very, very odd indeed and I can’t see any way it would work in practice. [Update edit – removed speculation]<\/p>\n

What the hell is going on? [Update edit – removed sentence]<\/p>\n

They’re now announcing a special Cabinet session to change the constitution – but how, exactly, and where does the Cabinet get the authority to do that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Update note: It’s entirely possible that there should be a question-mark in the headline to this post. He’s not stupid enough to have made this move without thinking it through, but I can’t for the life of me work out … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-constitution","category-brown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}