Fintan O’Toole says the prime minister’s “dark genius was to shape Britain in his own image” (Boris Johnson has vandalised the political architecture of Britain, Ireland and Europe, 8 July). Rather, I would say the UK, with its archaic, dysfunctional, unwritten constitution – accumulated by centuries of historical accident and relying on its leaders being “good chaps” – was sitting ripe for the picking of a Boris Johnson.
If we’re not to get more of the same, and even worse, we need a modern, democratic, functional constitution. A people’s constitutional convention would draw on the wisdom of the nation to get one, and be – for a change – impeccably democratic.
Natalie Bennett
Green party, House of Lords
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