The study found Johnson’s tenure exposed weaknesses that have damaged public trust.
In a major report, the Institute for Government and Cambridge University’s Bennett Institute for Public Policy concluded the UK constitution is in urgent need of reform after successive scandals exposed significant weaknesses in governance.
Authors of the report emphasised that the UK’s lack of a consolidated, written constitution has led to an over-reliance on ‘self-restraint from political actors rather than legal checks.’and the Northern Ireland protocol, were highlighted as key examples of how the bar for conduct in office has been repeatedly pushed in recent years.
‘Not all of his misdemeanours were unprecedented; but his premiership shone a light on existing problems within the UK’s governing arrangements, and heightened the concern that there has been a steady erosion of the tacit norms on which government in the UK rests.’ Against a wider backdrop of deepening mistrust toward governments around the world, as well as growing polarisation in well-established democracies, the authors of the report added that recent political events in the UK have ‘underlined the urgent need for serious thinking about the nature and trajectory of the [country’s] constitution.’
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