Barring 1784, when has UK Parliament's legal sovereignty over-ridden the electorate's political sovereignty?
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Every moment of a Ministry responsible to the House of Commons other than during an election.
The House of Commons and the Ministry (and for that matter the monarch's person) pay heed to the mood of the electorate. They also heed the People. They heed these groups chiefly to avoid the possibility of an interregnum (like Cromwell's commonwealth) or exregnum (a commonwealth without end).
The ministry have been quite willing to Peterloo (ie: massacre) the People, a perfect example of the limited sovereignty of the People in the face of the force of the House of Common's army.
The ministry have been quite willing to suspend elections, and then face an election of Victors where only one faction of the Ministry survived intact, and most of the ministry was eliminated in 1945. World War II supplies an example of the House of Commons and ministry being unwilling to heed the Electorate (the electorate, after 1942, showing very strong signs of representing a Very Popular as in the European conception of The People’s position [cf: Orwell, Lion & Unicorn].)
More broadly, between every election, the House of Commons and the ministry are not threatened with an immediate dismissal by The Electorate. The Electorate can only force its will on the House of Commons and thus the ministry at an election, or in a very hung parliament a by-election. At all other times the House of Commons and the ministry are chiefly restricted by how much blood the sewer system can handle, and secondarily restricted by a series of conventions on not shooting non-Irish people in the United Kingdom.
Definitions:
Ministry:
The Prime Minister and those other persons (Ministers) holding Cabinet posts (or perhaps only senior Cabinet posts?). This is to distinguish from the Government which also comprises the monarch's person, the civil service, and the armed forces.Monarch's Person:
The monarch regarded as a single individual with his/her personal wishes. This is to distinguish from the official, and ritual, roles that the monarch plays in a Westminster system, including specifically "the monarch in council".House of Commons' Army:
The United Kingdom Army is properly regarded as owned (though not necessarily directed) by the House of Commons, rather than the Ministry, Government or Monarch more generally, because the House pays its wages and expenses with an annual bill of supply and discipline (annual Mutiny Act). The necessity for this bill to be passed annually is the empirical reason why the House is guaranteed to be called into session at least once a year.Election of Victors:
An election following victory in war, limited to those who survive the political battles of the intervening period. Most particularly the 1945 election in the UK who voted for a radical labourite policy set including free healthcare and mass public housing.European conception of The People’s position:
From the French Revolution liberal continental Europe has relied on the common People as a mass body to supply conscripts and votes to support liberal democratic bourgeois states. The People constitute The Nation and justify the political Written Constitution with blood and rifles. As in a government or system of government could be unelected by mass democratic violence in a revolution.
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