My very short and technical question is whether it is humanly possible, in any event, for prerogative powers to apply to a Parliament of the nature of the devolved Welsh Administration. As I tried to say in a contribution earlier this afternoon, the royal prerogative derives from what started off as a monarchical diktat, curbed by Coke in 1610, very largely whittled away during the Civil War, and largely defined during the First World War—the noble Lord will remember the case of the Attorney-General v De Keyser’s Royal Hotel Limited. By now, there is hardly a remnant left, but I submit that that remnant can remain only with the mother Parliament.
Wales Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Elystan-Morgan
(Crossbench)
in the House of Lords on Monday, 7 November 2016.
It occurred during Committee of the Whole House (HL)
and
Debate on bills on Wales Bill.
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