Guest blog: A new Magna Carta?
Eight centuries since the Magna Carta.
2015 will see the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta—one of the most important constitutional documents in history. The Political and Constitutional Reform Select Committee, which I chair, has been looking forwards, rather than back, by working on a major project with King’s College London to ask whether the UK needs a codified constitution and to develop several examples. Now it’s holding an unprecedented public consultation on the results and offering people the chance to be a founding father or mother of one of the planet’s oldest democracies.