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"
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...
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.
