The noble Lord seems to be missing the fundamental fact that the problems to which he referred took place under the Fixed-term Parliaments Act, which required a two-thirds majority. This Bill gets rid of the Fixed-term Parliaments Act. The circumstances that occurred in 2017-19, as the noble Lord, Lord Lansley, pointed out, cannot recur in absence of the Fixed-term Parliaments Act.
Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Reid of Cardowan
(Labour)
in the House of Lords on Wednesday, 9 February 2022.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Bill.
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818 c1590 
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2021-22
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