England could soon have 2 prime ministers...!..not since King Charles

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Link to tweet

[elleng]

1. Tell the world that Queen Elizabeth violated the Constitution?

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2. The Queens Power was abused by Boris..the buffoon

So Boris is in violation, not queenie...

[elleng]

3. I don't get all the ins and outs of their system,

was she somehow OBLIGATED to approve it?

[pbmus]

5. Yes...

She was never going to deny this

or anything else the Prime Minister officially requests. As a matter of practice, the Crown follows the advice of its ministers, in which the Prime Minister is lead. The Queen does this regardless of who the Prime Minister is, be it a Tory or a Labour minister. They(the Crown) does this consistently to remain apolitical. The Crown shows no favor to one Prime Minister(or Party) or the other. She grants Royal Assent regardless. Johnson is abusing this to get what he wants.

[elleng]

7. Gotcha

[Ghost Dog]

11. The UK PM, therefore, wields potentially tyrannical powers,

unchecked by any effective Head of State such as can be found in normal European republics.

[MFM008]

10. The queens powers

Are purely ceremonial.
Everything the monarchy does is ceremonial.

[TygrBright]

4. Tantalizing... I'm remembering what happened to Charles I... and dreaming... n/t

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6. 😆 lol

[Historic NY]

8. Who will 'head' to the block?

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[regnaD kciN]

9. Not sure from the tweets how serious this all is...

It seems like there's some guy (not in Parliament) calling for it, and one MP talking about forming an alternative Parliament, but there's no indication it's more than a handful, or that anyone in that alternate group would be willing to name a new PM as opposed to just making speeches criticizing the current one and doing nothing else. Keep in mind that it's still a very open question over whether they could act at all, or if a prorogation means they aren't allowed to take any action. My guess is that whatever the Queen and the duly-selected PM say is how it will be is how it will be.