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The British Library at St. Pancras, London is home to two copies of Magna Carta. One barely survived the disastrous fire which swept through the original manuscript collection of Sir Robert Cotton in 1731. Magna Carta is written on parchment, rather than paper and in Medieval Latin. It could never have been understood by anyone other than educated nobility, the clergy and of course the King.

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David Davis

David Davis

Member of Parliament

Introduction – Runnymede and all that. Winston Churchill described the Magna Carta as “the foundation of principles and systems of government of which neither King John or his nobles dreamed”. Now in Politics we’re used to the law of unintended consequences...

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