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Look, this stuff is arcane and complicated. Like writing sonnets in Aramaic. So treat this thread with care. #SecretBrexitStudies
The following extracts are from Erskine May: the Bible of Parliamentary Procedure. And concern Labour's funny not funny motion. /1
The first thing to note is that the decision whether to release the Secret Brexit Studies is one for the Executive to take. /2
And the Executive is basically borrowing the Queen's power. /3 
What Labour seems to be doing is asking the Queen to exercise her power to release the Secret Brexit Studies. /4
And if Parliament agrees - as we know now it will - to ask the Queen, the Queen will have to respond. /5
So the question seems to be whether the Queen will ignore Parliament and refuse to take back her Executive power from the Government. /6
That would (seem to me to) create something of a constitutional crisis. /7
It also seems undemocratic. By announcing they are not going to oppose the vote the Tories are accepting the Commons supports it. ENDS
