Brexit and Beyond: Alison Young and Mark Elliott

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4.1 • 102 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Professor Alison Young and Professor Mark Elliott, both of the University of Cambridge's Faculty of Law, join Anand Menon in this episode of Brexit and Beyond to discuss the complexity of and challenges associated with the UK's constitution. They discuss the pros and cons of the flexible nature of the constitution, parliamentary sovereignty, lessons from Brexit and Covid-19 and more.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone and welcome to this latest instalment of UK and a changing Europe's Brexit and Beyond podcast.
0:17.9	And today I'm delighted to be joined by not one fantastic guest, but two, Mark Elliott
0:23.2	and Alison Young are both professors of public law at the University of Cambridge. They are,
0:28.3	in my opinion, who cares what I think, two of the best minds and communicators on how the British
0:34.2	Constitution works. So I hope we're going to learn a lot over the next 30 minutes or so.
0:38.6	Alison and Mark, welcome. Thanks, Anand. Good to be here. I mean, what a time to be doing your jobs,
0:44.6	eh? Because, I mean, it's brilliant, isn't it? Admit it, it's much fun. It's brilliant, but it's not
0:52.0	good if you like sleep. I think he's probably the best way of putting it.
0:56.0	Yes, if you write a textbook, it means that you can't recycle much of the less edition, I have to say.
1:03.0	No, it's like politics lectures now. You end up sort of revising them sort of almost before you finished and it's an ongoing thing.
1:11.7	I mean, have you ever experienced anything like the last five years?
1:15.3	No, not really.
1:16.6	The element of it is never ending, if that makes sense.
1:18.9	You just think you've dealt with one particular issue and then another one comes along
1:22.7	and takes over and another one comes along and takes over.
1:25.8	The speed of change, I think, is not something I'm used to at all.
1:30.1	Yeah, I would completely agree with that. I think it's certainly in the 20 or so years I've been doing this job. I can't think of another period like it.
1:38.0	Yeah. And I suppose, I mean, we'll come on to this in more detail, but one thought that strove, has the sort of line between what is constitutional law
1:44.9	and what is politics become a bit blurred? Everything's got a bit blurred in my mind.
1:52.2	I think part of it is that so much has had a constitutional law dimension to it, hasn't it?
1:57.0	So even things that are not really centrally about constitutional law, there's some constitutional law
2:01.9	in there, and therefore it kind of takes on that sort of additional dimension. And I think that's what's
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