The House of Commons, reports Sue Cameron in an investigation into the powers of Parliament, is failing British democracy. The Mother of Parliaments is a sham, a victim of badly-drafted laws, a home for backbenchers only interested in personal preferment, affected by the familiarity of civil servants with a government in power for many years, and increasingly troubled by European law-making.
From the Master of the Rolls
Sir Thomas Bingham to members of the public who have suffered because of Parliament's inadequacies, Cameron seeks testimony in discovering what has happened to the powers of Parliament.
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