As Labour travels to Liverpool this weekend, one issue which will attract attention is the extent to which Sir Keir Starmer spells out his vision on constitutional reform, if the party wins a majority at the next election.
The Blair administration introduced a variety of ambitious constitutional innovations in its first term, including devolution, Lords reform, the Human Rights Act and freedom of information. Gordon Brown also envisaged change, launching a significant (albeit unfinished) review into the governance of Britain when he took over as Prime Minister in 2007.
As we enter what might be the final Labour conference before the next general election, it is far from clear how radical Starmer wishes to be.
Initially, it appeared that Starmer might take a similar approach. In 2020, he established a Commission, overseen by Brown, to report on plans to settle the future of the Union and consider further reforms to the UK constitution.
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