As far as I understand, the act prevents the prime minister from dissolving the parliament unilaterally, but in practice the parliament still only need a simple majority, by just passing a law stating 'notwithstanding the Fixed-term Parliament Act, the parliament is dissolved'. This happened in 2019 ([1], [2]).
Or it could have just repelled the act, which is what happened this year.
This can happen when there is no entrenched constitution and the parliament has complete freedom to legislate.
Or it could have just repelled the act, which is what happened this year.
This can happen when there is no entrenched constitution and the parliament has complete freedom to legislate.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-term_Parliaments_Act_201... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Parliamentary_General_El...