This is why we could never make Democratizing the Constitution a movie, because the title just sucks.
I think the most that we can do in terms of trying to put some parameters around something like prorogation.... I think there are democratic justifications for doing that. It's hard for people to accept that a prime minister makes the decision—on the basis of advice but really it's his decision—unilaterally to summon, dissolve and prorogue Parliament. Given the politicization of these things, understandably people get annoyed with that. There's a gap between the royal prerogative in an unchecked sense and what we expect of democracy today.
I think that Standing Order 32(7) and the requirement for a report has the potential to be a step in the right direction in terms of democratic reform. However, I am not quite sure that it wouldn't be better to have something like this earlier in the process rather than later. I'm not so sure that the retroactive justification is going to be as helpful. I hear everyone else's comments today and I wonder: If this is going to be a successful reform does it not make more sense to have the Prime Minister come and tell you this? The reasons are his.