At least one manifesto that has come to my mind was entitled ““The Next Five Years””; I believe it referred to 1959 to 1964, and so it turned out to be. So at least then the norm was five years, and there really are more normal expectations of that than meet the eye.
Fixed-term Parliaments Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Neil Carmichael
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 16 November 2010.
It occurred during Debate on bills
and
Committee of the Whole House (HC) on Fixed-term Parliaments Bill.
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