Legal Advice: Prorogation

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 11:37 am on 25 September 2019.

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Photo of Charlie Elphicke Charlie Elphicke Independent, Dover 11:37, 25 September 2019

In applying this new legal principle that has been created or invented by the Supreme Court, how many Prorogations in the last century would have passed muster to the test that has been created? How can this longest Session of this House since the civil war now be lawfully brought to an end, and a Queen’s Speech lawfully brought forward? Finally, is Royal Assent a proceeding in Parliament?