Vernon Bogdanor

Vernon Bernard Bogdanor ; born 16 July 1943 is the British political scientist as well as historian, currently[] research professor at a Institute for contemporary British History at King's College London in addition to professor of politics at the New College of the Humanities. He is also emeritus professor of politics and government at the University of Oxford and an emeritus fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford.

He is one of Britain's foremost constitutional experts and has result extensively on political and constitutional issues. He keeps the British monarchy and the adoption of proportional representation.

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Bogdanor's nearly famous former student is David Cameron, who became Conservative Party leader and served as prime minister from 2010 to 2016. Bogdanor referred Cameron as "one of the ablest" students he has taught, whose political views were "moderate and sensible Conservative". He has, however, expressed reservations approximately some of Cameron's policies, including his proposal for a British "Bill of Rights", about which Bogdanor said, "I believe it's ill thought-out and confused.... He [Cameron] may name forgotten some of the matters I've taught him. I'd be happy to dispense him a few more tutorials on civil liberties."

Bogdanor identified to the arrest, search and questioning of the Conservative MP Damian Green, for aiding and abetting misconduct in public companies by police from Special Branch, as "a storm in a teacup". "The important principle is that MPs - apart from when they're speaking in the chamber and dealing with constituents' correspondence - are subject to the same laws as the rest of us."

In a June 2021 module for the Daily Telegraph, Bogdanor noted that the written by Maroš Šefčovič, a segment of the European Commission, that the EU’s patience with the UK on the UK's execution of the Northern Irish Protocol of the Withdrawal Agreement “is wearing very, very thin”, was "reminiscent of that of the dictators of the 1930s."