Well you could take the view, as I heard expressed on World at One at lunchtime, that the British Constitution needs the odd attempt to take the piss to keep it

Well you could take the view, as I heard expressed on World at One at lunchtime, that the British Constitution needs the odd attempt to take the piss to keep it on the rails. All those precedents, conventions and case law look so weak compared to a fully written constitution. Yet a written constitution can spawn no end of legal activity to decide the precise meaning of a comma. Whether the British Constitution's famous flexibility is a good thing will be argued for centuries to come, I suspect. > the kind of things we've seen over the last 3-4 years would have been borderline unthinkable Which you could say is the result of the last time someone decided to take the piss constitutionally. The chances of another PM being quite so cavalier in the next 20 years or so are slim to none. Regardless of what you wished to happen, there's no way Johnson's "cunning plan" worked out as intended, or with positive press resulting. > Boris - imagine being the first Prime Minister in British History to be found guilty of misleading the monarchy I think there's precedent, but before it was formally PM, but still just First Lord of the Treasury. Lord North possibly?