Peter Ridell makes an excellent point in The Times today. Three months ago, in a Green Paper Gordon proposed a new convention that the PM should be ‘required to seek the approval of the House of Commons before asking the monarch for a dissolution.’ So: if he goes for an election announcement next week, will he honour the principle behind his own proposal and ask MPs first?
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