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		</div><p>When MPs return to the House of Commons on Tuesday, it will be to resume what is now the longest session of Parliament in the history of the United Kingdom.</p>
<p>The current session formally began on June 21 2017 with the State Opening, including the Queen’s Speech.</p>
<blockquote><p>713 &#8211; The number of days in the current &#8211; and longest &#8211; session of Parliament</p></blockquote>
<p>A total of 713 days have since passed, making this the longest continuous parliamentary session since the UK was established by the Acts of Union in 1800.</p>
<p>The previous record-holder was the session of 2010-12, which lasted 707 calendar days from the State Opening on May 25 2010 to prorogation on May 1 2012.</p>
<p>Parliament is typically prorogued once a year, followed shortly afterwards by another State Opening and Queen’s Speech.</p>
<p>But in 2017, the Government announced the current session was to last two years to pass the key legislation needed to allow the UK’s departure from the European Union.</p>
<p>With the House of Commons still deadlocked over Brexit, however, there is no sign the Government intends to bring the session to an end.</p>
<p>Whoever takes over from Theresa May as Prime Minister could decide to prorogue Parliament before the summer recess – or let proceedings run on even longer, lasting into September or even until the end of the year.</p>
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<p>According to Press Association analysis, the 10 longest parliamentary sessions by calendar days have all occurred within the last 70 years.</p>
<p>In joint third place are the sessions that ran from April 1966 to October 1967 and from May 1997 to November 1998 – both of which followed Labour election victories and lasted 554 days.</p>
<p>The current session has already broken the record for the most sitting days – the number of days of debate in the House of Commons.</p>
<p>This milestone was passed on May 7 2019, when it became the longest session by sitting days since the English Civil War of 1642-51, according to research by the House of Commons Library.</p>
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