The position is this: Members of Parliament will seek to agree, by majority vote in the House of Commons, to present an Act of Parliament requiring the Prime Minister to seek a further Brexit extension time period beyond Oct 31st from the country's EU partners, who have said they would be willing to do so, as long as it would not just be a waste of time. But an Act of Parliament doesn't become Law until signed by Mrs. Saxe Coburg Gotha, alias Windsor, aka Queen, currently occupying the Throne and wearing the Crown of the utterly politically powerless Monarchy of the UK. Mrs. Saxe Coburg Gotha is permitted only to sign such Acts or agree to any other political business as are presented to her for signing by the Prime Minister, and is indeed required to sign anything so presented. So, as long as the PM does not present this Act in this case for signing, it will not be signed and will not become Law. A UK PM, Mssrs. Cummings & Johnson are asserting, has until now perhaps been expected as a matter of custom to present any Act approved by Parliament to Queen for signing, but is required to do so by no Law. This is because what is known as the "Royal Prerogative", which is described as "vestigial Powers" remaining from what certainly in Henry VIII's time in the early 16th Century were those of an Absolute Monarchy, were transferred to the Prime Minister in the late 17th Century, following a civil war. A UK PM can today, therefore, should she or he so choose, behave like an Absolute Tyrant (until loss of Head and/or a new civil war, of course) in a manner utterly unconstrained (except, potentially, by Revolt and/or Uprising).
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