A New Magazine for a New Parliament

Mace | 16th January 2020 | Magazine, Uncategorised
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When the clocks struck 11pm on 31 January, it was the end of our 45-year relationship with the EU.

Johnson’s ambition makes the timing of Mace’s launch – ten days before our EU departure – all the more pertinent. But don’t think the PM who has so audaciously brought his party to heel and won his Christmas election will hold back on his reformist agenda. Johnson’s ambition makes the timing of Mace’s launch – ten days before our EU departure – all the more pertinent: once we are adrift, the government can expect a shake-up comparable to that other landmark election for British democracy, 1832. That was the year when Charles Dod, the Irish journalist turned publisher, published his first parliamentary companion to mark the new shift in democratic power - away from a government ruled by Victorian clubland - following the Reform Act, or The Representation of the People Act. After working for The Times in the press gallery, Dod’s insight was that a wider electorate required a new accountability. Our insight is similar: now the nature of power is changing that shift deserves its journalist...

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