I continue to hear people speculating as to whether or not there will be an early election. However, much of this appears to be based on the assumption that the Prime Minister can simply decide to ask the Queen to dissolve Parliament and call an election. What this overlooks is that two weeks ago, on…
The Fixed-term Parliaments Bill received its Second Reading in the Lords yesterday. It attracted over twenty speakers. Very few of them, though, expressed support for the Bill. Some objected to the principle whereas others felt that it was badly constructed. The Opposition line was that it favoured fixed-term parliaments but did not believe that this…
