I'm glad to see that you've taken on board my point about the Labour Party having secured only one third of the votes at the recent General Election. Ought that not cause you to have second thoughts about an electoral system which gives a party an overwhelming majority in the House of Commons on such a basis and allows them to override the House of Lords and make fundamental changes to the constitution?
On the withholding of the Royal Assent, while it has not been withheld since 1708, am I right in thinking that there have been occasions when the implicit threat of withholding it has had political consequences? For example, I'm thinking of George III's opposition to Catholic Emancipation after the Act of Union with Ireland in 1801 which led to Pitt's resignation and delayed Catholic Emancipation until 1801?
I'm glad to see that you've taken on board my point about the Labour Party having secured only one third of the votes at the recent General Election. Ought that not cause you to have second thoughts about an electoral system which gives a party an overwhelming majority in the House of Commons on such a basis and allows them to override the House of Lords and make fundamental changes to the constitution?
On the withholding of the Royal Assent, while it has not been withheld since 1708, am I right in thinking that there have been occasions when the implicit threat of withholding it has had political consequences? For example, I'm thinking of George III's opposition to Catholic Emancipation after the Act of Union with Ireland in 1801 which led to Pitt's resignation and delayed Catholic Emancipation until 1801?