Does Parliament hold the key to solving the Brexit treaty problem?

As Brexit negotiations rumble on with no sign of resolution, researchers have suggested that we could make future government negotiations easier by giving Parliament a larger role in treaty-making. The authors argue that the best forum for treaty politics is Parliament, and that by changing the rules for treaty scrutiny we can provide stronger democratic accountability and also make it easier for the government to negotiate, conclude, and implement treaties. The collaborative project, conducted by researchers at the Universities of Oxford, Bristol and the House of Commons Library, examines the role that treaties will play in the post-Brexit constitution. The findings from the paper, and a conference held to discuss the findings earlier this year, were presented in a lecture today at Parliament. The paper's core argument is that, if we want to meet the challenges posed by Brexit, we ought to pay closer attention to the constitutional rules that decide how Britain makes treaties. Brexit is bound up in treaties. The Miller case was a debate about the nature and extent of the government's power to make and unmake treaties.