This is a recording of a panel session from our conference looking at the government's constitutional reform agenda. The focus of the discussion was the government's review of the Fixed-term Parliaments Act and it's repeal bill: the Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Bill. Speakers:Lord McLoughlin, Chair of Parliamentary Joint Committee on Review of the FTPAChris Bryant MP, member of Joint Committee on Review of FTPAProf Petra Schleiter, OxfordProf Alison Young, Cambridge.Chair: Prof Meg Russell FBA, Director of the Constitution Unit, UCL.The two-day conference was jointly organised with the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Oxford University and UK in a Changing Europe.  This episode was recorded on 17 June 2021. Suggested reading: Can Boris Johnson simply repeal the Fixed-term Parliaments Act?, by Robert Hazell on the Constitution Unit blog, published 5 February 2021.FTPA Joint Committee lays down marker for the future, by Robert Hazell and Meg Russell on the Constitution Unit blog, published 12 April 2021.Joint evidence submission by Robert Hazell and Meg Russell to the Joint Committee on the Fixed-Term Parliaments Act.The Draft Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 (Repeal) Bill: Turning Back the Clock?, by Alison Young on the UKCLA blog, published 4 December 2020.Repealing the Fixed-term Parliaments Act, by Mark Elliott in the Public Law for Everyone blog, published 2 December 2020.
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