division_name: Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Bill &#8212; Clause 2 - Revival of prerogative powers to dissolve Parliament and to call a new Parliament
motion: <p class="indent" pid="b642.3/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;that this present Parliament will be dissolved.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b642.7/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;stifled democracy and propped up weak governments.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b651.0/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Requiring prior Commons approval for an early general election places some check on the executive, while reducing the likelihood of either the monarch or the courts being embroiled in damaging political disputes.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b655.0/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;But why should a Prime Minister who cannot get a majority of the House of Commons for an election be entitled to a Dissolution?&#8221;&#8212;[Official Report, House of Lords, <phrase class="date" code="2022-02-09">9 February</phrase> 2022; Vol. 818, c. 1590.]</p>