September 8, 2022 • 24 mins
What is the Queen for in 21st century Britain? Why does a developed democracy insist on having an unelected head of state, who is also head of state of 15 other countries within the Commonwealth?
Robert Hazell, professor of government and the Constitution at UCL and co-author of The Role of Monarchy in Modern Democracy, tells Bloomberg Westminster's Roger Hearing and Caroline Hepker the monarch speaks to and for the nation at crucial moments and represents continuity.
Graham Smith of republic.org and Phillip Blond, director of the think tank ResPublica provide the cases for and against maintaining Britain's constitutional monarchy.
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Robert Hazell, professor of government and the Constitution at UCL and co-author of The Role of Monarchy in Modern Democracy, tells Bloomberg Westminster's Roger Hearing and Caroline Hepker the monarch speaks to and for the nation at crucial moments and represents continuity.
Graham Smith of republic.org and Phillip Blond, director of the think tank ResPublica provide the cases for and against maintaining Britain's constitutional monarchy.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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