With respect to the noble Lord—he knows I have great respect for him—I do not think that he was listening to what I have just said in answer to his noble friend. All this Bill does is to replace the bar of the two-thirds majority which the Fixed-term Parliaments Act provided with a slightly lower bar, but there is still a bar and it is perfectly conceivable that we could have a House of Commons in which the Government did not have a majority.
Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Howard of Lympne
(Conservative)
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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2021-22
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