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Last week, Unit Director & @UKandEU Senior Fellow Meg Russell spoke at @UCLLaws sell out seminar 'Brexit - What Next?'

Watch Meg discuss all things parliament and Brexit (32:34 - 39:55) - bit.ly/30XB1m1

Here's some of our highlights ⬇️
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"If you’ve got a strong parliamentary majority, you shouldn’t be frightened of parliament"

By removing future parliamentary oversight provisions from the Withdrawal Agreement Bill, “The risk is that... the government actually doesn’t think through its policy as clearly.”
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Talking about the government's reform plans:

"On the prerogative powers, we know that they want to repeal the Fixed-term Parliaments Act, but how far else they want to go in taking back powers to the executive from parliament, we do not yet know, and that’s a bit troubling”
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Some of the recent anti-parliamentary rhetoric:

"is pure populism, in terms of a 'pure people' pitted against an out of touch elite, and we need to be very careful where this is going... We can’t be a properly functioning democracy if we don’t have trust in our parliament”
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