Award-winning Wolf Hall author Dame Hilary Mantel says the United Kingdom needs a written constitution “to stop rogue prime ministers illegally interfering with the workings of Parliament”.
Her comments come after Boris Johnson advised the Queen to suspend Parliament at the height of 2019’s Brexit crisis.
“It’s quite evident that when Boris Johnson attempted to do that, it was for the courts to stop him,” she says.
The Supreme Court late ruled that the suspension of Parliament was unlawful.
Prime Minister Johnson said he “profoundly disagreed” with the ruling from the UK’s highest court.
Dame Hilary said: “If people will not play by the established rules and by the canons of decency, then we are going to have to have rules in place that restrain them.
“It’s a sad position to come to, because I think the flexibility of our unwritten constitution was a historical wonder,” she adds.
“But I think there will have to be a reckoning in the next few years.”
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