The UK is in 'uncharted constitutional waters' yet again - so what are the prospects for a written constitution?

Prime Minister Boris Johnson in New York on the day of the Supreme Court ruling. Image: Stefan Rousseau Prime Minister Boris Johnson in New York on the day of the Supreme Court ruling. Image: Stefan Rousseau EARLIER THIS WEEK, the British Supreme Court ruled that proroguing parliament was unlawful – a landmark blow against Prime Minister Boris Johnson.After the verdict was given, Green Party MP and former party leader Caroline Lucas told BBC News: “We would like to see a written constitution.

In contrast, the Republic of Ireland’s constitution, Bunreacht na hÉireann, was written in 1937 and has been amended by referendum several times. In the ruling on prorogation, the Supreme Court’s president Brenda Hale said it was unlawful to advise the Queen to suspend parliament because it “had the effect of frustrating or preventing the ability of Parliament to carry out its constitutional functions without reasonable justification”.

You need some consensus even among the major players of Conservative and Labour to have a written constitution and an idea of what it would look like, and I don’t think [...] they would want to go down that route at this point in time. Lock said defenders of the current unwritten model could argue that this judgement shows the government can function without a constitution.

Lock said the process of writing a constitution would be inclusive “to an extent”, likely taking contributions from academics, former prime ministers, the public and government representatives in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The UK constitution currently “depends on convention” that people will behave in certain ways, Conservative MP Dominic Grieve told Sky News.

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