ABSTRACT
The arena of power and influence has become narrower and bleaker since I first looked at Britain’s anatomy thirty years ago…
Anthony Sampson The Essential Anatomy of Britain (1992) But is it going to happen? Is the British ancien régime, rooted in its pre-democratic traditions, institutions and habits of mind, poised to make a historical transition to a modern constitutional democracy? If it is, how is such a process of change to come aboutand where is its driving force to be looked for?
