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The government can't just do anything they want without passing bills through parliament, unless it's a supposedly minor change which ministers can make according to an earlier act (known as a statutory instrument).
*Laughs in brexit bill*
(Which gave the govt. a ridiculous amount of leeway in making primary legislation via statutory instruments in the guise of repealing / rewriting previous EU driven legislation without having to tie parliament up forever with debating all thebthings. Although that was also done when we joined, way back, so it's not without precedent.)
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The government can't just do anything they want without passing bills through parliament, unless it's a supposedly minor change which ministers can make according to an earlier act (known as a statutory instrument).
The Lords cannot block a bill introducing something that was in a winning party’s manifesto (Salisbury Convention) but can reject (for a while) or delay (for a parliamentary year) legislation that wasn't.