Parliament in the Time of a Pandemic: A Canadian Perspective
Kevin Deveaux is a GPG Associate and a Canadian lawyer who was elected to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly for the constituency of Cole Harbour-Eastern Passage. During his time as an MLA he served...
Trade Unions and Transitions
Nick Sigler is a GPG Associate. He is the former International Secretary of the Labour Party. In this blog, he explains how trade unions have multiple qualities to serve democratic transitions: intellectual input, access to...
Merger or Acquisition? The birth of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Sue Griffiths is GPG’s Executive Director. In the following article, Sue explains the challenges of the FCDO merger and how both departments will have to harmonize their strategy and...
Adapting to the Virtual Space: Continuation of our Work in Sudan
Huda is a Research Intern at GPG currently based in London office. She joined GPG last year and is working on the Sudan Parliamentary project. In this blog, she discusses what has been done to support the various groups who...
The Impact of Covid-19 on Diplomacy
Peter Millett was the British Ambassador to Libya from July 2015 until January 2018. He has served in a number of positions in the British Diplomatic Service since joining in 1974. In this blog, Peter Millett explains how...
Parliamentary response to crisis: How the HoC Library adapted to Covid-19
Edward Wood is the Director of Research at the House of Commons Library in the UK Parliament. He covers how the institution responded and adapted to the Covid-19 and what challenges it faced when making resources...
The challenge of political transition in Sudan
Rt Hon Alistair Burt was formerly Foreign Office Minister for the Middle East and North Africa, covering Egypt and Libya in the years following the overthrow of Mubarak and Qadaffi. Greg Power is the Founder and Board...
Devolved Parliaments: Scotland
As part of our Parliamentary Responses to Crisis series, this is the third and last part of our articles about perspectives from each of the UK’s devolved Parliaments, in Northern Ireland, Wales, and Scotland. The...
Devolved Parliaments: Wales
As part of our Parliamentary Responses to Crisis series, this is the second part of our articles about perspectives from each of the UK’s devolved Parliaments, in Northern Ireland, Wales, and Scotland. Sir Paul Silk is...
Devolved Parliaments: Northern Ireland
As part of our Parliamentary Responses to Crisis series, over the next few weeks, we will be bringing you perspectives from each of the UK’s devolved Parliaments, in Northern Ireland, Wales, and Scotland. Dr Gareth...