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Originally Posted by Mike Harte
........ but it's the way that it's been done so as to effectively shut parliament for over 5 weeks instead of the normal 2 or 3 days.
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Not quite; the Lords Library reports that the mean prorogation for the last 20 years is 8 days;
https://researchbriefings.parliament.../LLN-2019-0111
Add to this the absolutely normal Autumn Recess of 3 weeks for party conference season, and as was stated at the time, only an additional 3 or 4 days have been lost. The House - mostly the opposition parties - spent 1.5 hours wittering on about Bercow's (long-overdue) departure, you may think if they had more important matters to discuss they would have done so.