“Holding leaders accountable is how we guarantee it’s a mortgage of energy and never a everlasting present” says Sam Fowles.
Fowles is a barrister who has been concerned in a number of the most fascinating political instances of the previous few years.
His new e book ‘Overruled’ offers an insider account of the intricacies of the British authorized system and the way it intertwines with our politics via 8 key instances. He claims that the instances doc a “descent into autocracy” – most notably the 2019 prorogation of Parliament to stop MPs blocking a “no-deal” Brexit.
Alicia Fitzgerald sat down with Sam to debate the important thing findings of his e book, and discover out extra about why he thinks ‘democracy’ as we used to realize it, is now not a actuality.