The Queen Is the Reason Boris Johnson Would Struggle to Suspend Parliament

  • Prime Minister has to ask monarch to stop MPs from sitting
  • Constitutional experts say she won’t want to be involved
Boris Johnson Would Need Queen's Consent to Suspend Parliament
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Boris Johnson is threatening to suspend Britain’s Parliament to force through a no-deal Brexit if he becomes prime minister -- and some politicians are planning to fight him in court.

But he would face a bigger problem: Queen Elizabeth II could stop him first.