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In May, eight of nine cities rejected direct mayoral elections. London does it this way.
Britain has no constitutional document. Laws and principles substitute. They comprise statutes, written documents, court judgments, treaties, and unwritten principles like parliamentary constitutional conventions and royal prerogatives.
According to Wilks-Heeg, a written constitution and greater powers for MPs to hold ministers accountable would strengthen British democracy.
Reforming or abolishing the House of Lords would help. So would ending centuries of monarchal privilege and discontinuing the monarchy entirely.
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