What is needed is proportional representation, fixed term Parliaments, a written constitution and bill of rights which can be used to overrule both the executive and the legislature and probably a large dose of direct rather than representative democracy.
Gordon Brown has made a start, but only a timid one.
If there is to be true separation of powers it means a separate executive - and that means adopting some permutation of the washington system.
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