In the United Kingdom, government proposes eliminating fixed-term parliaments

Boris Johnson could be given the power to call an early election under a new law proposed by the government. The Fixed-Term Parliaments Act 2011 took away the prime minister's power to hold an early election without the approval of MPs. But the government has now begun the process to scrap the act, as it said it would in its pre-election pledges. Last month MPs warned against handing the power to set the election date back to prime ministers. The government said their new bill would reinstate "tried-and-tested constitutional arrangements" and prevent parliamentary stalemates.
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