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PREVIEW: UK King's Powers Explored Amidst Starmer Government's Weakness GUEST AND TITLE: Gregory Copley, Defense and Foreign Affairs, author of The Noble State: On Constitutional Monarchy SUMMARY: Gregory Copley discusses the extreme weakness of Prime Min

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🗓️ 16 September 2025

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PREVIEW: UK King's Powers Explored Amidst Starmer Government's Weakness

GUEST AND TITLE: Gregory Copley, Defense and Foreign Affairs, author of The Noble State: On Constitutional Monarchy

SUMMARY: Gregory Copley discusses the extreme weakness of Prime Minister Keir Starmer's Labour government in Great Britain. Copley outlines the King's potential actions, including proroguing (suspending) or completely ending Parliament and calling new elections, especially if the government breaks convention or the constitution. The King could also call party leaders for discussions if the country falls into disarray. The UK Supreme Court has chastised the prime minister for reprehensible political and private behavior.
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This is John Batchel, conversationation with my colleague and mentor Gregory Copley of Defense

0:25.9

and Foreign Affairs, author most recently of a noble state about constitutional monarchy,

0:32.1

speculating about what can be done about the extreme weakness of the labor government under Prime Minister

0:39.7

Starmer right now. We can see it in the protests, in the challenges, in the language in Great Britain.

0:46.5

So what is to be done? There are avenues that are available to Britain that are not obvious from the

0:53.0

American point of view, a different government.

0:55.7

So here Gregory outlines some of the things the King can do depending upon events.

1:03.2

More of this, than I.

1:05.5

Well, as I say, he can prerog parliament, and that is to suspend it.

1:09.8

It's particularly able to be triggered if the

1:13.4

government of the day breaks convention and breaks the constitution in something it does. And so

1:22.7

far, it may be that the government has not literally broken the law or broken the constitution

1:29.0

by some of its actions, although the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom has chastised

1:36.7

the Prime Minister for doing things which were said to be reprehensible in terms of his political and private behavior.

1:46.8

So the king may have some acts to grind there, but if the country falls into disarray,

1:55.8

then the king would have the opportunity, we certainly would in any way call the Prime Minister

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