Future challenges for the monarchy - Robert Hazell   IfG–Bennett foreword

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Future challenges for the monarchy - Robert Hazell IfG–Bennett foreword

9 Dec 2022

This was reflected not just in the number of people who queued to observe her lying in state, and the mounds of flowers laid at Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle, but in the tributes of the 321 MPs who spoke about her in the House of Commons, and in the messages that poured in from leading politicians and statesmen from around the world. [...] They also asked how he would respond to the threatened disintegration of the union, from Scottish independence or Irish reunification; and to the loosening of bonds within the Commonwealth, with the possibility of one or more of the 14 realms (the other countries around the world where the British monarch is also head of state) becoming republics during his reign. [...] It is a three-part oath, of which the third part reads as follows: Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the Laws of God and the true profession of the Gospel? Will you to the utmost of your power maintain in the United Kingdom the Protestant Reformed Religion established by law? Will you maintain and preserve inviolably the settlement of the Church of England, and the doctrine, worship, d. [...] Ministers explained the change was being made to limit the power of the executive, which was too dominant in relation to the legislature;* and to remove the advantage given to the incumbent prime minister to choose the date of the next election. [...] What follows is a very truncated discussion, to keep things short; for detailed analysis see the chapter on dissolution and prorogation in the author’s recent book on the prerogative.46 The risks to the monarchy were emphasised by expert witnesses to the Joint Committee on the Fixed-term Parliaments Act.* The central issue before the committee was whether dissolution should be decided by the execu.
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