Peter Hennessy: On Joining the Constitution
Peter Hennessy discusses joining the British constitution, after a lifetime spent writing about it. At a time of constitutional upheaval, what can the second house still offer?
Historian Peter Hennessy discusses joining what he has spent a lifetime writing about: the British constitution.
At a time of constitutional upheaval, what does the second house still provide? He argues that expertise, in rare supply elsewhere in the political system, is abundant in the Lords, and offers a great deal to a system currently held in low esteem.
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Producer: Giles Edwards.
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