THE STATE OF THE NATION.

CONSTITUTIONAL history; BRITISH withdrawal from the European Union, 2016-2020; EUROPEAN Union membership; ELTON, G. R. (Geoffrey Rudolph); SEPARATION of powers

The article focuses on political crises of have shown the importance and neglect of constitutional history. It mentions 2016 referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union and the subsequent struggle to implement and discipline of British constitutional history once occupied a pre-eminent place in university learning. It also mentions constitutional historian Geoffrey Elton and Labour government of 1997-2010 on constitutional order predicated on a separation of powers.