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It's a well written an thoghtful piece. But there is a problem; the problem is that we have no written constitution.

The sovreign body here is the Queen (or King) in Parlaiment. That is how it has been since the Gloroius Revolution. The Queen, by convention in force since the time of Queen Anne, does not intervene. Parliament then, Lords and Commons, can do as it pleases.

it has pleased Parlaiment to allow ministers sign treaties which, so long as we abide by them, limit what Parliament can do. But Parliamnet can walk away from any treaty it likes, including the EU treaty. and the ECHR. The conundrum Joshua Rozenberg exposes is that Parliament cannot both have a treaty and not have it at the same time..

For my part I do not altogether trust Parlaiment, composed as it is. Absent a written constiution, I am happy to have in place the checks on what it can do which derive from EU law and the Human Rights Convention.

Robert Morfee