Proroguing Parliament should require a vote by MPs

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Proroguing Parliament should require a vote by MPs

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Dissolving Parliament early to call an election now requires a vote by MPs, but a Prime Minister only needs to speak to the monarch to end a Parliamentary session whenever they want and set when the next one will begin. This should also require a vote by MPs.

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The current rules on the timing of Parliamentary sessions are antiquated and open to abuse. In the last decade, sessions of Parliament have been extended twice by cancelling a Queen's Speech (in 2011 and 2018), and now in 2019 Parliament is being closed for an extended period, preventing Parliamentary scrutiny of a minority government and a PM who has not been elected by the whole country. This must not be allowed to happen again. Any change to the annual state opening of Parliament should require a vote by MPs to approve it.

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