The Constitution Unit

Review of Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011

Episode Summary

The third panel of day one of our conference on Johnson's constitutional reform agenda examined the government's review of the Fixed-term Parliaments Act and it's repeal bill: the Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Bill.

Episode Notes

This is a recording of a panel session from our conference looking at the government's constitutional reform agenda. The focus of the discussion was the government's review of the Fixed-term Parliaments Act and it's repeal bill: the Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Bill. 

Speakers:

• Lord McLoughlin, Chair of Parliamentary Joint Committee on Review of the FTPA
• Chris Bryant MP, member of Joint Committee on Review of FTPA
• Prof Petra Schleiter, Oxford
• Prof Alison Young, Cambridge.

Chair: Prof Meg Russell FBA, Director of the Constitution Unit, UCL.

The two-day conference was jointly organised with the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Oxford University and UK in a Changing Europe.  This episode was recorded on 17 June 2021. 

Suggested reading: 

• Can Boris Johnson simply repeal the Fixed-term Parliaments Act?, by Robert Hazell on the Constitution Unit blog, published 5 February 2021.
• FTPA Joint Committee lays down marker for the future, by Robert Hazell and Meg Russell on the Constitution Unit blog, published 12 April 2021.
• Joint evidence submission by Robert Hazell and Meg Russell to the Joint Committee on the Fixed-Term Parliaments Act.
• The Draft Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 (Repeal) Bill: Turning Back the Clock?, by Alison Young on the UKCLA blog, published 4 December 2020.
• Repealing the Fixed-term Parliaments Act, by Mark Elliott in the Public Law for Everyone blog, published 2 December 2020.