Common
Lascelles Principles
British constitutional convention
Lascelles Principles
The Lascelles Principles are a constitutional convention in the United Kingdom beginning in 1950, under which the sovereign can refuse a request from the prime minister to dissolve Parliament if three conditions are met: if the existing Parliament is still "vital, viable, and capable of doing its job", if a general election would be "detrimental to the national economy", and if the sovereign could "rely on finding another prime minister who could govern for a reasonable period with a working majority in the House of Commons". The convention was in abeyance from 2011 to 2022, when the sovereign's prerogative power to dissolve Parliament was removed by the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011. Following passage of the Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act 2022, which repealed the Fixed-term Parliaments Act, these principles are thought to have been revived. The Lascelles principles are not the only convention governing how the sovereign makes decisions relating to changes of government. For...
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