As part of its2009 inquiry in the wake of the expenses scandal, the Committee on Standards in Public Life said MPs should continue to be allowed to undertake paid external work so long as it remained within "reasonable limits" and, crucially, was made more transparent....
Plumb A (2015) How Do MPs in Westminster Democracies Vote When Unconstrained by Party Discipline? A Comparison of Free Vote Patterns on Marriage Equality Legislation. Parliamentary Affairs 68(3): 533-554.Plumb, A., 2015. How Do MPs in Westminster Democracies Vote When Unconstrained by Party ...
Charles then did something extraordinary. On Tuesday, 4thJanuary 1642, he marched down Whitehall with a party of guards and entered the Parliament Building at Westminster, fully intending to arrest the five Commons members there and then. However, he had fallen straight into a trap in that Jo...
That vote would mean many Conservative MPs knowing their Westminster jobs would disappear. It makes the two big conferences the most important so far this century in the way Britain's future in the world will be determined in the third decade and beyond. Meanwhile in the wake of the keynote...
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that "England is the Mother of Parliaments") because the British Parliament has been the model for most other parliamentary systems, and its Acts have created many other parliaments. Many nations with parliaments have to some degree emulated the British "three-tier" model. Most countries in ...
It is true that Labour has made matters worse than they were, repeatedly trampling on rules and institutions which once preserved integrity at Westminster. Without a paradigm shift, nothing will change. You can write all the articles you like; as long as you prop up the system by pretending ...
The first is the very mixed nature of the legislation being covered, indicating to what extent laws ostensibly passed in Westminster, and for which our national government claims credit, are actually sourced (and legally have to be sourced) in Brussels. Second, the "sexiness" of the committees...
But how far has it affected how the House of Commons operates? In particular, has it transferred power over policy-making from the executive to Westminster, or from ministers to MPs acting as a body, or to the opposition, or to backbenchers ...
A Westminster political order will permit internal dissent & a wide range of political discourse within its chambers, but it is unforgiving of any politician that challenges its power paradigm, unless he succeeds in breaking it & reforging a new one. Farage (an inadvertent challenger) failed in ...