SINCE the UK is a democracy, that means that the public or members of a party vote and elect their Prime Minister, and then he or she is appointed by the King. The monarch has an important role to ...

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Tory peer Lord William Hague's insistence that Theresa May should hold a snap general election in a bid to bolster her majority before the government faces a Brexit backlash has been slapped down by ...

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Without the existence of the much-maligned law, MPs would have been helpless against the Prime Minister. By Freddie Hayward Following the government’s unsuccessful attempt to trigger a general ...

Where a Bill has fallen because it has been endorsed by the Commons but opposed repeatedly by the Lords, the Parliament Act may be used. There have been two Parliament Act – the first in 1911 and the ...