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by gpderetta 1359 days ago
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.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-term_Parliaments_Act_201... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Parliamentary_General_El...