The general election on 4 July will be the UK’s first since 2019. The intervening years have seen many changes to electoral process. These include important amendments in electoral law – most notably, but not exclusively, through the Elections Act 2022. They also include more informal shifts...
The nightmare scenario about Kevin McCarthy is that if was to become Speaker of the House, he would be two heartbeats away from the Presidency, as under the Presidential Succession Act of 1947, the only people standing in the way of the Presidency are President Joe Biden and Vice President ...
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Having campaigned for weeks on a platform of rolling back the state and cutting taxes, Liz Truss’s first act as PM was to announce one of the largest state intervention in the history of the UK political economy. Her pledge to freeze energy bills for households for two years, alongside a...
The UK is about to hold a July general election for the first time in almost 80 years. Sarah Birch, Erik Asplund, Madeline Harty and Ferran Martinez i Coma discuss why the risk posed by extreme heat could affect the conduct and outcome of the voting proc
ACEP TELLS FEDS ABOUT EPS BILLING DISPUTE ISSUES ACEP sat down with federal officials to discuss issues related to the federal dispute resolution process under the No Surprises Act and explained the unique aspects of emergency care and billing. We offered specific improvements to address issues ACEP...
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“Following the EU Referendum and the European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Act 2017, the UK will cease to be a member of the European Union on 29th March 2019. At that point, we will no longer sit at the European Council table or in the Council of Ministers and we will no longe...
A president can do close to nothing without a parliamentary majority, but it can dissolve the parliament (at least the lower house called National Assembly), call for snap elections (just like in the UK) and hope to get a majority this time: this is what F.Mitterrand did once elected in...
If a party were strongly united ( and were democratically minded) it might just be able to pass laws untying its hands from inherited acts ( like May’s Climate Act). And actually do Brexit! I was naive I had no idea MPs would work against the people’s wishes. glen cullen May 7,...