J. Sorel has argued, influentially — it has been an argument taken up by Peter Hitchens, David Starkey and others — that Labour’s constitutional document of 2022 entitled ‘A New Britain: Renewing Our Democracy and Rebuilding Our Economy: Report of the Commission on the U.K.’s Future‘ will destroy Parliamentary sovereignty. It will involve, he wrote in July 2023, “the subordination of Parliament to the judiciary; universal English devolution; the reorganisation of Britain as a multi-national state; and the enshrining of the current social order as a constitution”.
On the other hand, David McGrogan has argued in the last few days that we ought to pay less attention to the supposed content of this document — which he suggests Gordon Brown has probably never read — and instead look at its form. It “stuns us with its incompetence”. It is “shoddy, slapdash, riddled with grammatical and syntactical errors, and in places incoherent”. It was written by “people of the profoundest mediocrity”.
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