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Constitutional Reforms

Asked the Prime Minister’s reaction to the criticisms from the Constitutional Affairs Select Committee suggesting that the Government was rushing through its proposals for constitutional change, the PMOS said that as he understood it, the consultation for the proposals would last for some eighteen months, so we did not think anybody was rushing anything through. The position of the judiciary had changed during that period. What we were trying to do was to clarify the role of politicians and the judiciary and guarantee the independence of the latter. We believed that people now had a better understanding of what we were proposing to do than they perhaps had had at the start of the process.

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