An increasing concern about current #PM’s *accountability* to parliament, or not. Appears decision to merge #FCO with #DFID was taken without even consulting #Cabinet!
⚠️ Be very aware. #Constitutional conventions are being steadily undermined.
[ ↘️image https://twitter.com/standardnews/status/1273765878358777856?s=21] https://twitter.com/CharterhouseSq/status/1273000334898737152
#Parliament #Scrutiny
From the archive: https://twitter.com/CharterhouseSq/status/1207635046351421440
#Parliament #Accountability https://twitter.com/CharterhouseSq/status/1272643795889381381
Yet another example of this (current) govt’s apparent & ongoing disregard of @HouseofCommons & historic parliamentary convention ..
| https://twitter.com/lisanandy/status/1277930466604179456?s=21 https://twitter.com/lisanandy/status/1277930466604179456
⬆️ Gove, Johnson & Cummings LLP
+ #accountability

. @andrewrawnsley writing in today’s @ObserverUK ⤵️

“The #GangOfThree are no keener to have senior officials who will challenge them than they are to have people in the cabinet who will argue with them” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/05/the-civil-service-is-right-to-be-paranoid-about-boris-johnsons-gang-of-three
⬆️ #scrutiny #accountability
+taking-back-control-questionmark
\\ see thread above ⤴️

| https://twitter.com/libdemdaisy/status/1285328309560258563?s=21 | via @libdemdaisy https://twitter.com/libdemdaisy/status/1285328309560258563
⬆️ More from @redhistorian | 👓 #recommended|reading

“We must not be fooled by claims that this is about restoring ‘the sovereignty of Parliament’. Its about the power of #No10 to sideline #Parliament
| https://twitter.com/redhistorian/status/1286999540122476544?s=21 | see thread ⤵️ https://twitter.com/redhistorian/status/1286999540122476544
⬆️⬇️ an ongoing (depressing) thread on #BorisJohnsonGovernment #accountability, or lack of it.

Take heed from @martinkettle ..
“We are witnessing nothing less than an attempt to overturn Britain’s established system of representative democracy”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/19/johnson-parliament-cummings-britain-democracy #scrutiny
⬆️ see above thread | #parliament #accountability

https://twitter.com/danbloom1/status/1303660099530035200?s=21
⬆️ see above |

🧐 .. when a thread about #UK govt. #accountability (or the lack thereof) reaches a certain point ⤵️ https://twitter.com/GeraintDaviesMP/status/1304911429552803840
⬆️ see thread above / ref. #accountability #ParliamentaryDemocracy #scrutiny https://twitter.com/guse_guse/status/1308158451244294150
⬆️ see above for ongoing thread re:
#accountability #scrutiny #ParliamentaryDemocracy
.. & tendency of this #BorisJohnson govt. to make *new* policy announcements direct, via media, twitter, etc

cutting-out essential task of going to #HouseOfCommons to make announcement first https://twitter.com/pickardje/status/1308304344266108928
And so it goes ..

⬆️ this thread just runs & runs 🧵 | a-stitch-in-time-saves-nine

#accountability #scrutiny #ParliamentaryDemocracy https://twitter.com/steven_swinford/status/1309038262170906624
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