Government to suspend Parliament

I'm surprised she didn't return for the G7, as Robert Peston was there for ITV.

But Westminster doesn’t return until next week.

His action may be perfectly lawful, but it has an ulterior motive. It just so happens that the necessary proroguing of Parliament stifles debate about Brexit at the very time when it's most needed. And that's not a coincidence? That - to many - will be seen as dictatorial in the sense that it quashes debate in a parliamentary democracy.

Anyway, I sense this could descend in a political argument. Probably best to stick to the TV pres angle.

Procedure for a Queen's Speech is for a prorogue only being for a week. Parliament gets a vote for proroguing during conference season.

Johnson is taking that vote out of that hands of parliament. Enough MP's are concerned enough to form an unofficial parliament as I linked to on the last page.

I don't know why people keep starting threads like this here, as as far as the remit of this forum goes, nothing has happened. It's just being covered on the news like normal, maybe the Ten will get extended by 10 mins.

The most we seem to have got is that Presenter X joined Presenter Y on the news channel one hour earlier than usual!

The other issue is that as things stand there is a lot of important legislation that needs to be passed before 31st October. And that's just the boring logistical stuff, there's little time for any contingency planning to go through

I started the thread because I thought I would be worth noting how the news organisations covered what may be unprecedented events.

I think the problem is that nowadays the broadcasters don't really come up with anything new unless the news is absolutely cataclysmic. Gone are the days of a 9/11 thread where we spent at least 20 pages discussing how BBC World had aired its hitherto unheard sombre theme music. There is rarely new presentation that gets an outing and simulcasting has become such the norm that it's not noteworthy. Events like 9/11 led to presentation changes that none of us had ever seen before. Similarly with Diana's death. These days nothing much new happens. Hence why it's probably best to be covered in the mega threads as anything of a political nature ends up veering off course in the current toxic climate.

Oh I agree about the cataclysm but I stand by my original point of starting the thread to see how resources are used.

Laura got back quickly! Broadcasting from Westminster

Maybe Huw will return from holiday early to do the Ten

Surely parliament getting officially prorogued, but an unofficial parliament sitting elsewhere is a cataclysmic event?

160 of our MP's have signed onto this yesterday, even before the announcement, so I could see more signing on now. And it will affect broadcasting in other ways.

a) Can't sit in HoC, so cameras will have to be set up elsewhere. Presumably as an outside source into Millbank.

b) No PMQ's, as it's not official.

c) The rules about 'parliament footage in comedy programmes' might not apply (obviously never been tested)

Something as big as this could get new special pres. Maybe if BBC Parliament is ran from elsewhere - not Millbank - The graphics may be Reithed.