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Should the Queen listen to PM or Parliament?

A Labour MP asked Theresa May about the role of the Queen if a future prime minister tried to shut down Parliament to prevent MPs blocking a no-deal Brexit.

She refused to speculate on what the monarch would do, but said "governments are able to govern by having control of the business of this House".

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