I wrote recently on this blog about the issue of Royal Assent. This post concerns the wholly separate issue of Royal Consent which is a requirement for those rare Bills that would affect the royal prerogative.
The possibility of a no deal exit has led Yvette Cooper MP to propose a Bill, the European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 4) Bill (‘EUWA2019’) to mandate the government to delay exit day if no deal is agreed by Parliament. The latest iteration of the Bill can be found here. Previous iterations of EUWA2019 have either been dropped or Cooper’s proposal has been rejected by the House of Commons in a vote. Three Cabinet ministers have now publicly threatened to support the Bill.
Technically, Cooper’s Bill would be a Private Member’s Bill. As is well known, such Bills normally have no chance of passing without executive sanction because the Government controls the business of…
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