British members of parliament have overwhelmingly voted in favor of holding a general election on June the 8th, three years ahead of schedule.英国议会成员以绝对的数量优势投票支持在6月8日进行大选,比计划提前三年。The plan was approved with well over the two-thirds majority required.该计划的支持票...
The same year also saw the passage of theParliament (Qualification of Women) Act, which allowed women to run as candidates for members of Parliament for the first time. Of the 17 women whostoodfor this historic election, 15 hadbackgroundsin thesuffrage movement. “How...
British members of parliament voted overwhelmingly on Monday in support of a ban on smoking in cars carrying children. Lawmakers in the House of Commons, the lower house of parliament, voted in favour of abanby 376 to 107. It is now up to Prime Minister David Cameron's government to decid...
Members of Parliament of Labour and the Scottish National Party have urged the government to be more transparent on the issue. Shadow defense secretary Nia Griffith said that at the heart of this issue was a worrying lack of transparency and a prime minister who'd chosen to cover up a seriou...
Friday’s vote was not the final say on the matter for Parliament, as it will now be scrutinized in parliamentary committees and amendments to the bill may be put forward. But it is a landmark political moment, setting the stage for a significant shift that some have likened to ...
Members of Parliament approved the assisted-dying bill by a 330-275 vote, signaling their approval in principle for the bill, which will undergo further scrutiny before it goes to a final vote. The vote came after hours of debate — emotional at times — th...
For eight years he tried and failed to get the bill through parliament finally in 1882, it was voted into law. It had however been watered down; people had to willingly give their ancient monuments to the government. But what it did do was plant the idea that the state could preserve Br...
LONDON –British lawmakers gave initial approval on Friday to a bill to help terminally ill adults end their lives in England and Wales, following an impassioned debate that saw people sharing personal stories of loss and suffering. Members of Parliament approved the assisted dying bill ...
Fourteen years later, the House of Commons tried and impeached a number of the king’s advisors. And, in 1399, after years of internal struggle for power between the monarchy and Parliament, the legislative body voted to depose King Richard II, enabling Henry IV to assume the throne. ...
There is first the threat of global war. No President, no Congress, no Prime Minister, no Parliament can spend a day entirely27 free of this threat. And I don't have to tell you that in today's world the existence of nuclear weapons could mean, if not the extinction28 of mankind, ...