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WHY UNIONS ARE GETTING SERIOUS ABOUT THE NEED FOR POLITICAL REFORM
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A week before the court case over prorogation reached the Supreme Court, the
ERS’ Dr Jess Garland told TUC Congress delegates: “Our constitution is just a
set of gentlemen’s agreements, with weak parliamentary checks and balances"

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IF THE HOUSE OF LORDS WERE ELECTED, WOULD IT BE A CLONE OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS?
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Around the world there are plenty of parliaments we can learn from, and there is
no reason why an elected House of Lords would be a clone of the House of
Commons...

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HOW DO ELECTIONS WORK IN JAPAN?
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At a glance, the UK and Japan are quite similar in terms of institutional
set-up. Japan has a bicameral parliament called the National Diet that consists
of an upper house – the House of Councillors – and a lower house, the House of
Representatives, similar to our House of Commons.

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