Britain\u2019s new Prime Minister Andy Burnham has signalled his support for a written constitution for the UK, which unlike most countries, does not have one authoritative document.<\/p>\n
Since entering office just two weeks ago, the former mayor of Greater Manchester has made devolution of power to regional authorities a focus of his administration.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the end, I think it does start to point towards a new constitutional settlement,\u201d Burnham said of his devolution plans.<\/p>\n
Calling for a \u201cnew clear set of principles about how this country should be run\u201d, Burnham said there was a need for a written constitution \u2013 something he has called for before he was prime minister.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s wrong that people are left arguing for things that are just fundamental \u2026 and the lack of a constitution disempowers places in that situation,\u201d said Burnham.<\/p>\n
Unlike most countries around the world, Britain does not have a written constitution, and is instead governed by a patchwork of statutes, common law judgments and treaties.<\/p>\n
The push for a written constitution is fairly recent, with Labour\u2019s Gordon Brown, who was prime minister from 2007 to 2010, an early proponent of the overhaul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britain\u2019s new Prime Minister Andy Burnham has signalled his support for a written constitution for the UK, which…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1126612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[8916,2378,748,12502,76965,1102,393,299,90439,4884,18799,8414,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":["post-1126611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uk","category-united-kingdom","tag-andy-burnham","tag-belfast","tag-britain","tag-cardiff","tag-devolution","tag-edinburgh","tag-england","tag-europe","tag-gordon-brown","tag-great-britain","tag-greater-manchester","tag-labour","tag-northern-ireland","tag-scotland","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wales"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117027896572756417","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1126611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1126612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1126611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1126611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1126611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}