Theresa May was spotted sitting on the steps of The Queen’s throne in the House of Lords on Monday during the debate on the triggering of Article 50.
Mrs May is the first Prime Minister to exercise her rights to sit on the steps of the throne in living memory.
She is entitled to sit on the steps in her capacity as Privy Counseller. Any member of the Privy Council can do so, as can a limited number of other people including the eldest child of peers, Black Rod, the Dean of Westminster and peers in Ireland.
Mrs May is not entitled to go anywhere else in the chamber as only peers can do so. Similarly, members of the House of Lords cannot enter the House of Commons.
Under no circumstances can anybody other than the Monarch sit on the sovereign’s throne. It is only sat on once a year when The Queen visits the chamber for the State Opening of Parliament.
The Prime Minister stayed in the House of Lords to listen to two opening speeches. The debate is continuing into the night and is expected to conclude at around midnight.
Mrs May wanted to attend the debate in person because she does not want the Lords to intervene in her plans to trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty next month.
Once Article 50 is triggered, the government officially notifies their intent to leave the European Union.
The lower house (the House of Commons) passed the government bill to trigger Article 50 earlier this month. The upper house (House of Lords) now need to approve the bill before it is sent to the monarch to sign.
The upper house reviews and amends bills from the lower house. This is in order to act as a check for the House of Commons.
Absolutely correct and agree
The headline is very misleading.
I thought the headline was legit until I actually read the article which was far from what your headline stated.
I was nearly outside Downing street with my pitchfork and flaming torch. Oh, she sat on the steps… ok then…
They call that “click bait”…
I expect far better from Royal Central.
Yesterday Russia released a psychological profile in the U.S. saying that President Donald Trump was sane; because he was “a tough guy.” PM Teresa May wants a “Special Relationship” with him, and usurps power, as here sitting upon the Queen’s throne before the House of Lords, that did not bring Impeachment charges against her for treason. Here is my psychological profile of them, and many other world leaders today, a Sonnet by William Shakespeare.
From fairest creatures we desire increase,
That thereby beauty’s rose might never die,
But, as the riper should by time decrease,
His tender heir might bear his memory.
But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes,
Feed’st thy light’s flame with self-substantial fuel,
Making a famine where abundance lies,
Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel.
Thou that art now the world’s fresh ornament
And only herald to the gaudy spring
Within thine own bud buriest thy content
And, tender churl, make’st waste in niggarding.
Pity the world, or else this glutton be–
To eat the world’s due, by the grave and thee
I believe my distant relative Sir Winston Churchill might have well
appreciated this Sonnet of making a famine where abundance lies
For such a traitor as Teresa May, and, her barren
“special relationship” with one as Donald Trump.
Fake news!
GET OFF THAT SITS MRS MAY. YOU ARE NOT WORTHY ENOUGH…. DON´T PUSH YOUR LUCK.
Other than the Queen, can any member of the Royal Family enter the House of Commons Chamber, such as if Prince George had a school trip to the Commons Chamber, could he attend, or would he have to sit out, as the Third in Line to the Throne?