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Fixed-term Parliaments Bill

I merely seek some advice from the noble and learned Lord. He said that the Prime Minister would have the choice of either resigning or going to the country. Is the constitutional position not actually that it resides with the monarch whether to grant a Dissolution? There might be circumstances where a Prime Minister wished to go the country but there was someone else who was capable of forming a new Administration, and a Dissolution might not be granted.
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
726 c1119 
Session
2010-12
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
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