Alumni and guests are invited to the Norfolk Cambridge Society's twelfth public lecture delivered by Professor Michael Kenny, Director of the Bennet Institute of Public Policy, titled The British Constitution, its strengths,  weaknesses, and risks.

The Constitution of the United Kingdom comprises both written and unwritten arrangements. Hitherto no attempt has been made to codify such arrangements into a single document as a result of which the UK is one of only three countries in the world (the others being New Zealand and Israel) without a formal, codified constitution 

Does this matter? Is it a strength or a weakness? Have the much-lauded checks and balances in the British system been shown to be illusory? Should we consider codifying some of Britains long established conventions now that our politicians no longer seem to respect the norms that governed parliamentary behaviour in previous eras? What kind of balance do we need to strike in our territorial constitution between the UK Governement and its devolved counterparts? And finally, what kinds of process should we be developing to make sensible constitutional change happen.