Pass into Law rules on the length of Proroging Parliament.

Proroging should never again be used as a political weapon to avoid parliamentary scrutiny. Passing Proroging rules into Law will have this effect.

This petition closed on 6 Nov 2019 with 15 signatures


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The Rules may be along these lines :-
1. Standard Proroging of Parliment is always 5 days only.
2. 66% of MP's vote needed to extend beyond 5 days i.e. a non-standard Proroging.
3. only 1 Proroging allowed per 6 months, again with a 66% MP vote to overturn this rule.
4. PM can call a Standard Proguing at any time within the rules.


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