Everything that is now officially law after bill-passing bonanza yesterday

A bunch of significant new laws are now in the statute books (Picture: Getty/Shutterstock)

As of yesterday afternoon, Parliament is officially prorogued and MPs are dashing back to their constituencies for the final week of campaigning ahead of the May 7 elections.

Prorogation means all the work of the House of Commons and House of Lords is until the King’s speech kicks off a new parliamentary session in a couple of weeks.

So far, so formal – but in practice, this means a furious effort to get bills through the final stages of the legislative process and turn them into laws.

Any proposals that are still not settled when prorogation takes place will fall, meaning the Read Entire Article