The British Constitution: Labour’s Constitutional Revolution

The Labour government elected in the United Kingdom in May 1997 has embarked on the country's biggest ever program of constitutional change. This chapter sets out the main constitutional measures adopted so far and identifies further changes that will need to follow in order to accommodate these early changes. The new constitutional architecture in the United Kingdom is a form of quasifederalism in which new institutions will have to be created to rebalance the political center if the Union is to hold together.