The act also directly demonstrated the ancient principle of Parliamentary sovereignty that Parliament cannot bind its successors.

On the weekend of 26 October 2019 the Liberal Democrats and the Scottish National Party proposed introducing a bill in the House of Commons to hold a general election on 9 December 2019.

[4] This proposal was initially rejected by the Boris Johnson government as a "gimmick", owing to a vote on an early election under the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 (FTPA) which was to be held on 28 October 2019.

[5] It did fail, as the required two-thirds majority was not achieved, leaving the government still unable to trigger an election.

The election produced an overall majority of 80 seats for the Conservative Party, led by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.