In January journalists at a liberal-minded newspaper, Southern Weekend, staged an unusual strike over the censorship of an article in praise of constitutionalism.
If it had gone out to the party membership and the party membership had elected Boris Johnson, that would have triggered a constitutional crisis in the Tory party.
While very young her late Majesty pledged herself to serve her country and her people, and to maintain the precious principles of constitutional government which lie at the heart of our nation.
George gave his assent to the Act in August 1911 in what is one of the most significant reforms of the constitutional relationship of the upper and lower houses of parliament to each other in modern British history.