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United Kingdom

Ghost Dog

(16,881 posts) Mon Sep 9, 2019, 11:07 AM Sep 2019

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(UK) Queen approves law seeking to block October 31 no-deal Brexit

... The step, known as Royal Assent, is effectively a rubber-stamp from the monarch for the law which passed through parliament last week despite opposition from the government. The Royal Assent was announced in parliament’s upper chamber, the House of Lords.

https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-eu-bill/queen-elizabeth-approves-law-seeking-to-block-october-31-no-deal-brexit-idUKKCN1VU1L8

Reuters does not describe the circumstances, convocation of Privy Council or whatever, in which the rubber stamp was applied.

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