Sunak to use king’s speech to announce new system to award oil and gas licences
Sunak to use king’s speech to announce new system to award oil and gas licences
Conservatives hope plans will open up clear dividing lines with Labour and protect thousands of jobs
The king should announce an election.
the king should announce the abolishment of the royal family
Why not both?
That would probably create a constitutional crisis in the UK.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_prerogative_in_the_United_Kingdom
The power to dissolve parliament is "perhaps the most important residual prerogative exercised personally by the sovereign, and represents the greatest potential for controversy."[15] This prerogative is normally exercised at the request of the prime minister, either at his or her discretion or following a motion of no confidence. Constitutional theorists have had differing views as to whether a unilateral dissolution of Parliament would be possible today; Sir Ivor Jennings wrote that a dissolution involves "the acquiescence of ministers", and as such the monarch could not dissolve Parliament without ministerial consent; "if ministers refuse to give such advice, she can do no more than dismiss them". A. V. Dicey, however, believed that in certain extreme circumstances the monarch could dissolve Parliament single-handedly, on the condition that "an occasion has arisen on which there is fair reason to suppose that the opinion of the House is not the opinion of the electors ... A dissolution is allowable, or necessary, whenever the wishes of the legislature are, or may fairly be presumed to be, different from the wishes of the nation."
Just add it to the list of crises
Well yes, we're all aware of the reality of that situation, but wouldn't it be nice?
If only we had a body of people who could change the law on that problem.
That doesn't sound like it's ill-defined then.
I really hope Charles decides to make a giant issue about being forced to say this. He obviously knows how dystopian these new legislations are and has campaigned against climate change in the past. It would be incredibly bankrupt if he just said whatever to it.
Technically, he's not allowed to. And that is preferable to the alternative. Ideally, he will abolish himself and then be free to speak. But he won't.
I bet this will go down just as well as the new system for Ofgem to calculate the cap on consumer energy prices they implemented back ~2017.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Rishi Sunak will this week announce legislation for a new annual system for awarding oil and gas licences as part of a highly political king’s speech which the Conservatives hope will open up clear dividing lines with Labour.
Sunak has already watered down the government’s climate targets, pushing back the deadline for selling new petrol and diesel cars and the phasing out of gas boilers, prompting furious condemnation from the automobile and energy industries.
Ed Miliband, the shadow climate secretary, said the plan to mandate annual oil and gas licensing was unnecessary, suggesting the government was more focused on creating dividing lines over the green agenda ahead of the next election.
Government sources suggested there were unlikely to be any major surprises in the king’s speech with many of the measures already in the public domain such as a phased smoking ban and a new regulator for English football, while several other bills would be carried over.
It is also expected to include criminal justice measures such as restricting the use of tents by homeless people on the streets of Britain – with growing numbers of rough sleepers and what the government considers a rise in antisocial behaviour.
The policy agenda set out on Tuesday would be aimed at “people who want to see a common-sense approach”, one government source said, in a nod to wedge issues such as climate change, migration and gender identity which the Tories plan to weaponise ahead of the election.
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Is the new system "slip me a couple million quid and you can do whatever you want"? Because if it is, that's just the old system again