On the question of what happens to prerogative power when a statute is passed, covering the same ground, the court in De Keyser expressed various opinions as to whether the statute abolishes the prerogative, merges it with the statute, or whether the prerogative power is only suspended for as long as the statute remains in force. This is largely an academic question but it is interesting to consider what would happen if the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 was repealed, as some would like. Would the full extent of the old prerogative power to dissolve Parliament reappear in its old form?