Summary
WHY shouldn't our King be a Catholic? Like so many of Labour's catastrophic constitutional innovations, their latest wheeze - changing the law to allow the monarch to be married to a Catholic - seems, in this modern age, innocent enough. And anyway, who takes the Church of England seriously these days? Doubtless hand-wringing liberal advisers will have pointed out how unfair it is that any member of the royal family who marries into the Catholic faith is then removed from the line of succession.
But altering our unwritten constitution is more difficult than it looks. Reform of the Lords and devolution for Scotland and Wales all seemed simple, but the results have been devastating. A deeply damaged second chamber and what now seems to be the almost inevitable dissolution of the United Kingdom.See the full content of this document
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Perils of Meddling with the Monarchy
The Queen is head of the Church of England, which whatever its faults has over the centuries defined the DNA of this country. Her su...
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