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Originally Posted by Damien
I think it's a bluff. In the end, I don't think he has the power to ignore Parliament passing confidence in a new Government, otherwise what would stop someone doing that upon losing an election other than moral weight?
The Queen can send in the guards to turf him out if needs be  |
But this is the whole point. It isn’t about who has the power to do what; it is about what has always happened as a result of convention, and sadly the principle of convention has been somewhat undermined recently.
Only the Queen can appoint a Prime Minister and only the Queen can replace one. If Parliament wished to force Boris to resign then it would have to petition the Queen directly and ask her to do it. That would place her directly into a political position. In our constitution that’s about as close to pulling the nuclear trigger as you can get. If the alternative was a general election, following which Boris would resign in the conventional fashion if he lost, then there is absolutely no way the Queen would intervene. She would always follow the path that does not require her intervention.