Dear Andrew
5th January 2001
With the election approaching and the manifesto about to be written, the prime minister and his advisers, such as yourself, will be coming to a view about how to present the record of the government’s first term and prepare for the second. I am writing to ask that you press for the inclusion in the manifesto of a strong commitment to a new “citizens’ constitution.” The phrase is taken from Charter 88’s document Unlocking Democracy-which reassesses the case for reform after the huge number of disparate yet far-reaching constitutional measures which Labour has carried out since 1997. Without a citizens constitution, there will not be a new Britain.
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