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...
A 75-year-old man seriously injured in the Westminster terror attack is confirmed to have died at King's College Hospital after his life-support was turned off. 8.25amKiller's birth name 24 March In an update on the investigation, Scotland Yard's top anti-terror officer Mark Rowley reveals...
After King Charles I failed to arrest five of his opponents in the House of Commons, there was no alternative to Civil War.
In Scotland, the SNP built on its mobilisation during the 2014 referendum campaign to take all but three Westminster seats there in 2015. Labour’s vote in Scotland plunged from 42% in 2010 to 24% per cent, and underplurality rule votingits MPs there fell from 41 to just one. The First...
In practice it is Commons-dominated and is the major way in which MPs in the Westminster Parliament (plus a few peers) exercise a degree of control over the UK’s intelligence and security services. These consist of MI5 (internal security), SIS or MI6 (overseas intelligence), GCHQ (...
The scars of 1992 go deep for Alex Salmond. Ever since then, the Nats have faffed about with a sort of Independence Lite, asserting under some soundbite or other that more Nationalist MPs are always good for Scotland - or, in devolved … Read...
You may not agree with his conclusions but I doubt you can match his output and productivity and is a modest person compared with many empty vessels sounding off shallow thoughts in Westminster and the media. Davies May 11, 2019 Ian the leave people have been frozen out if the process and...
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 ...
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, ...