Theresa May 'could ask the Queen to stop soft Brexit', lawyers claim

Two lawyers drew up the eyebrow-raising paper as MPs prepare to go over Theresa May's head to approve a soft Brexit. In the paper, lawyers Stephen Laws QC and Prof Richard Ekins argue Theresa May could stop any Parliamentary Bill promoting a softer version of Brexit at its final stage - being signed off by Her Majesty. 'But if legislation would otherwise be passed by an abuse of constitutional process and principle facilitated by a rogue Speaker, the Government might plausibly decide to advise Her Majesty not to assent to the Bill in question. 'It would be MPs, not the Government, that had by unprincipled action involved the monarch.' It would set up a constitutional crisis with the Queen, who is famously completely neutral on political matters in public.