Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Bill
Friday, 25 February 2022
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House of Commons
I beg to move, That this House disagrees with Lords amendment 1.
The Bill passed through th...
I am hugely relieved to hear the Minister say that. I have stood in every election since 1997. On...
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I agree with my right hon. Friend; there is of course a good reason why the 2017 to 2019 Parliame...
Will the Minister confirm that, if we dismiss Lords amendment 1 today, the courts will not have a...
My right hon. Friend is quite right that it is not productive, and, in fact, it would not be in t...
The right hon. and learned Gentleman has mentioned what happens in the event of a minority Govern...
I do not want to get into hypotheticals, but what I will say is that the pre-2011 position worked...
Does my right hon. and learned Friend share my disbelief at some of the opposition to the current...
Good constitutional practice involves protecting the integrity of the legislature, the Executive ...
I sat on the Joint Committee that reviewed the 2011 Act and we spent long, productive and interes...
My hon. Friend is completely right. In fact, it is difficult to expostulate all the different sce...
The Minister responded to the hon. Member for Thurrock (Jackie Doyle-Price) by saying that he ful...
I am obviously not doing that. We are able to see where mistakes have been made and where things ...
May I refer my right hon. and learned Friend to “The Crown”, of which I am sure he was an avid vi...
The Lascelles principles are something we still respect. One of the fundamental tenets of Sir Ala...
I am grateful for the opportunity to speak for the Opposition in this debate.
I listened ve...
Does my hon. Friend think there is any possibility that a future Government, or this Government g...
I am grateful for that intervention. I strongly believe in the maxim that how you do one thing is...
How is it an abuse of power and a strengthening of the Executive for the Executive to say, “We wa...
The Lords amendment is a very modest safeguard to that in saying, “At least demonstrate that a ma...
I do not think it was a dreadful election—it was a brilliant election. What was dreadful was the ...
I cannot agree with the right hon. Gentleman. The idea that it was dreadful that a Government who...
The point is this: why should an Opposition, when facing a minority Government who want to resolv...
I cannot agree with the right hon. Gentleman, because the reality is that before those parties co...
Many Members may find it rather difficult to think of a scenario when we would not need to have s...
It is definitely fair to say that there are new arrangements. That is why the Minister said the a...
Order. Not of my colleagues.
Sorry, Madam Deputy Speaker: 21 of the Minister’s colleagues. Of course, they were rare circumsta...
I apologise, Madam Deputy Speaker.
I say to the Government that it is not a one-way street ...
I thank the hon. Member for Nottingham North (Alex Norris) for the introduction where he describe...
Why is it good enough for the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly and Northern Ireland Assembly t...
The hon. Gentleman invites me to be intemperate about the difference between this House and the o...
I rise to speak in favour of the Lords amendment, which would require any Government seeking to d...
I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way, which is typically gracious of him. He calls it a “min...
I thank the right hon. Gentleman for that intervention, but that is a decision for this Parliamen...
What we are hearing, especially from Government Members, is continued Westminster exceptionalism:...
I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention, and he is right. What we are seeing is, as he descr...
Can the hon. Member explain why Opposition parties in this House are so keen to prevent there bei...
It is very witty to frame this debate in those terms, but I think the right hon. Gentleman is mis...
Is it not strange that Conservative Members who we have had to listen to banging on and on for ye...
I thank my hon. Friend, and I suspect he may have been reading my speech earlier, because I will ...
Opposition parties are struggling a bit with this idea of democracy, are they not? Taking back co...
I apologise to the House that, because I have been in Committee Room 10 launching the call for ev...
Is it equally the case that including this vote in the Bill would not mitigate people not being g...
I think the danger is precisely the opposite. The arrangements that the hon. Lady would like us t...
I will be brief as I gather I have only a few minutes to speak. The Lords amendment would require...
Members across the House want the repeal of the Fixed Term Parliaments Act 2011, but in its defen...
It is not really for the Scottish National party to defend the Westminster interpretation of demo...
First, may I say to my hon. Friend the Member for Thurrock (Jackie Doyle-Price) that I, too, am a...