In the midst of my presentation to the CSPG’s seminar on “the implications of fixed-date elections.”
Photo credit: Nick MacDonald
Introduction
Various British MPs like Jacob Rees-Mogg and journalists like Peter Hitchens have called for an early general election in the wake of Leave’s victory in the Brexit referendum and Prime Minister Cameron’s announcement that he will resign the premiership by October. But as I shall demonstrate below, holding an early general election is no longer a routine matter because the Prime Minister can no longer make and take responsibility for the decision to dissolve parliament because of the Fixed-Term Parliaments Act, 2011, which will therefore only further complicate the fallout of the Brexit Referendum.
The Executive No Longer Controls Dissolution At All
I shall state from the outset the most radical and significant attribute of the Fixed-Term Parliaments Act, 2011: it has…
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