Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The British constitution has faced its greatest determined assault since the ...

The extraordinary events of the past 48 hours in London have shown the vulnerability of constitutional systems that rely heavily on the expectation that key figures will abide by conventional rules of ...

Chairman of the 1922 Committee announcing Theresa May's survival of attempt by Tory MPs to oust her with a motion of no confidence at the Houses of Parliament ...

Calls are growing for a codified British constitution as the battle between government and Parliament over Brexit plays out in the Supreme Court. The upcoming ruling on whether Boris Johnson’s ...

The decision to resort to a referendum to decide on the UK’s EU membership was always going to lead to difficulties. The bitter divisions it opened up undermined two key features of the UK’s ...

The Supreme Court's decision today is most welcome. Its clarity, its unanimity and its reasoning are exemplary. The British version of democracy that we have enjoyed has been rescued for the moment.

The British constitution never looked less like itself than in the final months of the UK’s EU membership. In office was a government that constitutionally speaking should not have existed: one that ...