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Don't drag Queen into tax credits row, PM told

26 October 2015

Professor Meg Russell (UCL Constitution Unit) says that there is a limit to what the prime minister could do in the face of determined Lords opposition to the government's planned cuts to tax credits given that the Queen had to approve all peerages. Read: Times (£), More: The Week, Listen: BBC Radio 4 The World Tonight (from 9 min 30 sec)