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This sentence collapses two different things—dismissing a prime minister and choosing one—into a single date.

• It is true that 1834 is the famous last example of a monarch dismissing a prime minister (William IV dismissing Lord Melbourne).
• But it is not true that 1834 was the last time the monarch used personal discretion to appoint a prime minister.

The House of Commons Library states that "Any degree of personal discretion over the choice of a Prime Minister was last exercised in 1963 by Queen Elizabeth II, following Harold Macmillan’s resignation." That was the appointment of Sir Alec Douglas-Home after Conservative Party consultations.

So the claim is inaccurate as written: 1834 was not the last time a monarch used personal choice in relation to appointing a prime minister.

This sentence mixes one true point with a false one.

• The Prime Minister’s Office was indeed created in 1916.
• But 1916 was not the first formal recognition of the office of prime minister.

The Political and Constitutional Reform Committee states that formal acknowledgement of the post was a "lengthy and gradual process", and lists several earlier milestones:

• the title "Prime Minister" was used in Hansard in 1885;
• the post appeared in the Imperial Calendar in 1904;
• the Prime Minister was given a place in the order of precedence in 1905;
• the first mention in statute came later, in the Chequers Estate Act 1917.

So the article is wrong to present the 1916 creation of the Prime Minister’s Office as the first formal recognition of the premiership. Official government material also describes the Prime Minister’s Office as part of the Cabinet Office, not a wholly independent institution.

This claim is contradicted by the House of Commons Library.

Its 2026 briefing on military action and Parliament’s role states that Parliament has no legally established role in decisions to deploy the armed forces, and that the government has no legal obligation to consult Parliament before doing so. It also says that, in recent years, governments have taken military action without consulting Parliament in:

• Syria in 2018 under Theresa May;
• the Red Sea/Yemen in 2024 and 2025 under Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer;
• the Middle East in 2026 under Keir Starmer.

That means Anthony Eden was not the only prime minister to act without prior parliamentary approval. The claim is therefore factually wrong.

UK Parliament’s own history page gives a different timeline.

• 18 July 1961: Harold Macmillan answered questions for 15 minutes between 3.15pm and 3.30pm as an experiment.
• 24 October 1961: that experiment was made permanent.

So 24 October 1961 was not the date the experiment was first introduced.

The article is also wrong about the post-1997 schedule. Parliament says that:

• from 1997 to the start of 2003, the Prime Minister answered questions on Wednesdays from 3pm to 3.30pm;
• since 2003, PMQs have been held between midday and 12.30pm each sitting Wednesday.

That makes both sentences inaccurate.

The sentence is inaccurate because it says these decisions are often made with the consent of Parliament.

Current official guidance says:

• Under the Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act 2022, "The Government can decide when to call a general election" and the monarch dissolves Parliament "at the request of the Prime Minister of the day".
• UK Parliament explains that members of the House of Lords are appointed by the King on the advice of the Prime Minister.

Those are not decisions that ordinarily depend on Parliament giving its consent. Parliament may debate constitutional reform or scrutinise the government politically, but the current constitutional processes for dissolution and peerage appointments are not ones that are normally carried out only after Parliament consents.