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Does the Salisbury convention apply during a hung Parliament?

The Salisbury convention usually limits the House of Lords’ capacity to obstruct legislation implementing Government manifesto commitments. But does it apply if there is a minority or coalition government during a hung Parliament?

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June 10, 2017August 10, 20172017, Brexit, constitutional conventions, constitutional law, house of lords, salisbury convention

Mark Elliott

Public Law for Everyone is written by Mark Elliott. Mark is Professor of Public Law and Chair of the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge. He also served, from 2015 to 2019, as Legal Adviser to the House of Lords Select Committee on the Constitution. Mark can be found on Twitter as @ProfMarkElliott. Many of his research papers can be downloaded via his SSRN author page. Views set out on this blog are expressed in a purely personal capacity.

© Mark Elliott 2013–2021

Recent papers

Constitutional Adjudication and Constitutional Politics in the United Kingdom: The Miller II Case in Legal and Political Context

The United Kingdom’s Constitution and Brexit: A ‘Constitutional Moment’?

The Fundamentality of Rights at Common Law

Political Pragmatism and Constitutional Principle: The European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018

Common Law Constitutional Rights

Published by Hart in 2020 and edited by Mark Elliott and Kirsty Hughes, Common Law Constitutional Rights examines the extent to which the common law can and does protect constitutional rights, taking recent UK Supreme Court jurisprudence on this matter as a point of departure.

Public Law

Aimed at students taking a range of public law modules, Public Law combines comprehensive coverage of the subject with depth of analysis. Written in an accessible style, it is the UK’s best-selling textbook in the field. The fourth edition of the book, written by Mark Elliott and Robert Thomas, was published by Oxford University Press in 2020. 

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