# Last British Monarch with power? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 27, 2009, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-british-monarch-with-power/511748 "2009-09-27T14:13:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![JBGUSA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/258eb7/32.png) [@JBGUSA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JBGUSA)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2017, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-british-monarch-with-power/511748/61 "2017-06-09T03:10:18Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > No, if Parliament became deadlocked on an issue then there would be a general election so that the voters could decide which party’s position (each party would presumably be representing a different side of the issue) the public preferred. I was kidding. But seriously what I expect to happen is that Teresa May will form a minority government, not a coalition. The Conservative Party a/k/a Tories will turf her as party leader and a new leader, possibly Boris Johnson will call elections. ---
**Author:** ![UDS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecae2f/32.png) [@UDS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UDS)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2017, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-british-monarch-with-power/511748/62 "2017-06-09T03:48:01Z")
> [@JBGUSA](#): > > I was kidding. > > But seriously what I expect to happen is that Teresa May will form a minority government, not a coalition. The Conservative Party a/k/a Tories will turf her as party leader and a new leader, possibly Boris Johnson will call elections. The electorate will punish any party which calls _another_ election. Twice, now, a Tory Prime Minister has gone to the country on a vote that, legally and constitutionally, they didn’t need to have - the referendum last year, and now this election - and both times they’ve had their noses bloodied. They won’t be making that mistake again. They’ll cobble together some kind of a deal with the Democratic Unionist Party, and hang on for as long as they can. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/last-british-monarch-with-power/511748.md?page=3)