The Long Game — UK Parliament: 760 Years of Controlled Reinvention. Friday’s Edition

Why Some Governments Endure. Series 20 #5

In June 1215, a group of English barons forced King John to sign a document, the Magna Carta, at Runnymede, a meadow beside the River Thames. The Magna Carta did not create Parliament; it established the principle that the king operated within the law, not above it. Fifty years later, in 1265, Simon de Montfort summoned the first parliament to include e…