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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.
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image https://twitter.com/standardnews/status/1273765878358777856?s=21] https://twitter.com/CharterhouseSq/status/1273000334898737152
![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](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ea2pEZqXQAAsMzT.jpg "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")
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
From the archive: https://twitter.com/CharterhouseSq/status/1207635046351421440
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
| https://twitter.com/lisanandy/status/1277930466604179456?s=21 https://twitter.com/lisanandy/status/1277930466604179456
see thread above #NationalSecurityAdvisor #No10 #PowerOfExecutive #Accountability | https://twitter.com/peston/status/1278230251055861761?s=21 \\via @Peston https://twitter.com/Peston/status/1278230251055861761
#WithoutAdequateOversight #PowerOfExecutive #ParliamentaryDemocracy #Scrutiny #Accountability https://twitter.com/AndrewPRLevi/status/1277967118026203138
see above + 
| https://twitter.com/maitlis/status/1278821550922350593?s=21
Related: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/boris-johnson-to-start-white-house-style-tv-press-briefings-939lkwxkx
[ #BorisJohnson to start #Trump/style TV press briefings ] https://twitter.com/maitlis/status/1278821550922350593
see above | #No10 #transparency #accountability 
| https://twitter.com/pressgazette/status/1279077690759417863?s=21 https://twitter.com/pressgazette/status/1279077690759417863
thread / see above ref. #Accountability #Parliamentary #Scrutiny | https://twitter.com/lizmottershaw/status/1279337299512360963?s=21 https://twitter.com/LizMottershaw/status/1279337299512360963
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
#scrutiny #accountability #parliament #Westminster | https://twitter.com/hhesterm/status/1285484214289346560?s=21 https://twitter.com/hhesterm/status/1285484214289346560
ongoing thread on #Parliament #accountability #scrutiny A reminder of how #parliamentary #democracy in England is being steadily weakened :: https://www.qmul.ac.uk/mei/news-and-opinion/items/prorogation-struck-at-the-very-heart-of-parliamentary-democracy-but-it-was-not-an-isolated-incident-dr-robert-saunders.html \\via @redhistorian
| https://twitter.com/redhistorian/status/1286207939808821249?s=21
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
thread / ongoing #accountability #scrutiny| https://twitter.com/adamjkucharski/status/1294960840307806209?s=21 https://twitter.com/AdamJKucharski/status/1294960840307806209
thread ~ as above / +ongoing ref. #BorisJohnsonGovt #transparency #accountability | https://twitter.com/justinmadders/status/1295441676719316993?s=21 https://twitter.com/justinmadders/status/1295441676719316993
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
a further addition to our ongoing thread on #UK govt. #accountability #scrutiny #transparency [ or not 
] . @andrewrawnsley in today’s @ObserverUK ..https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/30/the-johnson-method-of-government-total-power-with-absolutely-no-responsibility
![a further addition to our ongoing thread on #UK govt. #accountability #scrutiny #transparency [ or not ] . @andrewrawnsley in today’s @ObserverUK .. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/30/the-johnson-method-of-government-total-power-with-absolutely-no-responsibility](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Egqeq8xXcAAQAC4.jpg "a further addition to our ongoing thread on #UK govt. #accountability #scrutiny #transparency [ or not ] . @andrewrawnsley in today’s @ObserverUK .. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/30/the-johnson-method-of-government-total-power-with-absolutely-no-responsibility")
#accountability #scrutiny | ref. UK govt. [ongoing thread]> https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2020-09-01/HCWS427/ via @thatginamiller
https://twitter.com/thatginamiller/status/1300930236381646848
![#accountability #scrutiny | ref. UK govt. [ongoing thread]> https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2020-09-01/HCWS427/ via @thatginamiller https://twitter.com/thatginamiller/status/1300930236381646848](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eg5sYaxX0AAsNVu.jpg "#accountability #scrutiny | ref. UK govt. [ongoing thread]> https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2020-09-01/HCWS427/ via @thatginamiller https://twitter.com/thatginamiller/status/1300930236381646848")
#Parliament #Accountability #Scrutiny [ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-54084834 ] https://twitter.com/BBCPolitics/status/1303664548210237442
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 above | #accountability #scrutiny #UKgovt“The (constitutional) state we’re in .. a week in #British politics”
https://publiclawforeveryone.com/2020/09/13/the-constitutional-state-were-in-a-week-in-british-politics/
#ThatWasTheWeekThatWas https://twitter.com/ProfMarkElliott/status/1305137135075364866
#accountability #scrutiny #ParliamentaryDemocracy| https://twitter.com/christopherhope/status/1307425468795232263?s=21
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 
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#accountability #scrutiny #ParliamentaryDemocracy https://twitter.com/steven_swinford/status/1309038262170906624
this thread just runs & runs | a-stitch-in-time-saves-nine#accountability #scrutiny #ParliamentaryDemocracy https://twitter.com/steven_swinford/status/1309038262170906624
