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 ...
It is not clear exactly how many MPs will be affected by the changes, as it will depend on how strictly the rule is enforced, but some involved in drafting the changes say it could be as many as 30. Labour pledge to go further The Labour Party has said it will...
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...
I have published original research into use of slow release opiates in end-of-life care, and presented on this topic at medical / palliative care conferences in Scotland and Australia as well as giving a keynote in the Palace of Westminster to MPs and Lords on pain relief and related end-...
Over the 43 years of the UK’s membership of the EU, Westminster ministers lost power to Brussels. Perhaps unconsciously British elites compensated by focusing more and more attention on ‘micro-managing’ the public services still within their control in the UK and in Engla...
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...
The Parliament of Great Britain was formed in 1707 by the Acts of Union that replaced the former parliaments of England and Scotland. A further union in 1801 united the Parliament of Great Britain and the Parliament of Ireland into a Parliament of the United Kingdom.In the United Kingdom, ...
s Martin McGuiness and the collapse of the Northern Ireland Assembly and Executive in January 2017. In June 2017 Foster and the DUP offered Theresa May key backing to stay in office at Westminster on a confidence and supply basis, in return for a ‘bung’ to boost spending in Northern ...
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 in the governing party? In the Conservative and Liberal Democrats ...
It has been a bruising episode for those involved in the Zucker bid. The tone of the debate at Westminster in recent weeks has alarmed some in the RedBird IMI camp given comments they saw as bordering on xenophobia against a trading partner in the Middle East. One said the deal looked lik...