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That democratic system is underpinned by an “unwritten constitution” - a set of laws, rules, conventions and judicial decisions accumulated over hundreds of years.

Johnson tested Britain’s unwritten constitution.

But Blick says Britain’s unwritten constitution means that checks and balances are easier to override than in some other democracies.

That democratic system is underpinned by an “unwritten constitution” — a set of laws, rules, conventions and judicial decisions accumulated over hundreds of years.

Westminster's gorged itself this week on some of its favourite pastimes: obsessing over who is slithering up or down in the game of political snakes and ladders; pondering the edges of our stretchy, unwritten constitution as the courts and government do battle; and, of course, frantically trying to predict what is next.