The Queen approves UK Prime Minister Johnson's plan to suspend Parliament weeks ahead of a Brexit deadline. Follow live updates:
What happens when Parliament is suspended? The House of Commons Library has issued useful guidance explaining the basics.
It says that while it is the Queen who suspends the Parliament, her role in the process has been a formality in the UK for more than a century. The briefing paper explains that prorogations, the formal word for suspension, have been relatively short in recent years, rarely longer than two weeks.The guidance, which was published in June, has an entire section focused on Brexit and the possibility of using a long suspension of the Parliament as a means to deliver a no-deal Brexit, an option that most MPs don't agree with. It says:
A long prorogation has been defended by its advocates as a means of “honoring the referendum result” from June 2016. However, critics of such an approach maintain that a PM embarking on such a strategy would do so in defiance of the elected House of Commons, unnecessarily bring the Crown into a political dispute, and undermine the role of Parliament in the UK’s constitutional and democratic arrangements.
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