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Scrapping the Fixed-term Parliaments Act

Scrapping the Fixed-term Parliaments Act

Return to the status quo? Or another power-grab by ministers?

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Joshua Rozenberg
Dec 31, 2020
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The government wants to replace the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 with the prerogative powers that preceded it. Can parliament do that? Should it? And where would this leave the Lascelles convention?

Sir Alan “Tommy” Lascelles, private secretary to George VI

To find out more, read my latest column in The Critic. The January/February edition is on sale n…

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