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Jul 12, 2024 · Inexperienced though they may be in parliamentary years, the Commons is now reinvigorated with 16,500 years of fresh experience from across all walks of life. A record number of women MPs (40.5%).
Mar 30, 2024 · The Conservative party will lose almost 1,000 years of Commons experience just from MPs who have already announced they are standing down, a Guardian analysis has shown, amid an exodus likely to be even greater than in 1997.
Jan 19, 2021 · Parliamentary correspondent. In any game, the rulebook matters, and, after two tumultuous years, pressure is growing to rewrite the Commons' rulebook - its standing orders - to loosen the...
At the moment, under Standing Order No 14, which dates back to 1902, the Commons agenda is controlled by the government, apart from days provided (with the timing controlled by the government)...
May 25, 2024 · The Conservative party lost more than a thousand years’ worth of parliamentary experience in a matter of days as dozens of MPs fled Rishi Sunak ’s “sinking ship.”
Dec 7, 2022 · In 2018 the Commons Public Administration Committee, chaired by Sir Bernard Jenkin, reported on Lords reform, stating that “The experience of the last century demonstrates that only incremental reform has succeeded. While never excluding the possibility of radical reform, when there is consensus on the next essential step, smaller incremental ...
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Jan 19, 2021 · The government’s level of control over what is debated in the House of Commons, and when, undermines parliamentary accountability and needs addressing urgently, says a report from UCL's Constitution Unit.
