Dr Malcolm Jack is the Clerk of House of Commons ... when he speaks the earth here quakes and people pay attention. He's about to do just that in front of the Constitutional Affairs Committee where he is going to say that the Coalition's Fixed Term Parliaments Bill leaves dissolutions dangerously open to judicial review. Putting the dissolution process in statute is the risk, he's expected to explain to the Committee. It used to be something that just happened.
Dr Malcolm Jack is the Clerk of House of Commons ... when he speaks the earth here quakes and people pay attention.
He's about to do just that in front of the Constitutional Affairs Committee where he is going to say that the Coalition's Fixed Term Parliaments Bill leaves dissolutions dangerously open to judicial review.
Putting the dissolution process in statute is the risk, he's expected to explain to the Committee. It used to be something that just happened.