If you want to understand why Britain’s backbench MPs have been so thoroughly useless at holding the government to account, look no further than the appalling case of Owen Paterson.
Mask-wearing has once again become mandatory in Britain’s House of Commons – for everyone except Members of Parliament.
A British lawmaker claimed that Christ’s death on the cross was “assisted” by a “kindly centurion” during a debate on “assisted dying” — as euthanasia is now euphemistically known — in the House of Lords.
The act gives sweeping powers under the pretext that Britain is experiencing a crisis so catastrophic it justifies government by fiat.
Downing Street has warned of a “challenging” Winter ahead, suggesting that restrictions in reserve such as domestic vaccine passports could be imposed if the number of cases gets too high. While Professor Neil Ferguson has said that a Plan B may need to be implemented if Covid cases increase.
Queen Elizabeth II has agreed to grant the Essex seaside town of Southend city status in honour of Sir David Amess, the Conservative MP who was fatally stabbed while speaking to constituents on Friday.
Two drug dealers were arrested and 17 narcotics offences took place at the Palace of Westminster in the 12 months to March 2021, according to a freedom of information request.
Libya’s eastern “parliament” – essentially a rival government based in Tobruk, with its own Libyan National Army (LNA) headed by warlord Khalifa Haftar – voted on Tuesday to withdraw its confidence from the “unity government” in Tripoli.
Conservative candidates in Canada’s upcoming parliamentary election polled higher than expected over the weekend to show a slight lead over the liberal candidates, just weeks before the September 20 vote, CTV News reported Saturday.
Boris Johnson will recall parliament in order to debate Afghanistan, which has been described as the biggest blunder “since Suez”.
Three octogenarian members of the House of Lords face being banned from its facilities after refusing to sumbit to unconcious bias training.
Dozens of Conservative MPs rebelled and voted against extending restrictions — but not enough to stop the measures being passed, with 491 MPs backing the plans.
Pakistan’s parliament erupted in chaos on Tuesday after an opposition leader launched an incendiary speech criticizing recent budget proposals by Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, Pakistan’s Dawn newspaper reported on Wednesday.
MP Rob Roberts has been suspended from the Conservative Party and faces a suspension from the House of Commons after an internal complaints panel ruled he had sexually harassed a male staff member, at one point telling him to be “less alluring” because the MP found the subordinate attractive. Roberts had also asked a 21-year-old female intern if she wanted to “fool around” with him.
Queen Elizabeth II has set out a British legislative programme including voter ID, Brexit free ports, and a host of climate change regulations at the socially-distanced State Opening of Parliament — her first major public engagement since the death of her husband of over seven decades.
British MPs approved a motion in the House of Commons on Thursday to declare that genocide is taking place against the Muslim Uyghurs and others in the Xinjiang region of China, representing a landmark parliamentary stance on the issue.
A leading Conservative backbencher has challenged fellow Tory and Home Secretary Priti Patel to adopt an Australian-style solution to Britain’s ongoing illegal immigration crisis.
LONDON (AP) – British lawmakers were voting Thursday on whether to prolong coronavirus emergency measures that have given the government unprecedented powers to restrict citizens’ everyday lives.
Police in New Zealand on Wednesday arrested a man after he attacked the country’s parliament building with an axe, smashing the building’s main glass entrance doors.
Opposition lawmakers clashed on the floor of Ghana’s parliament in Accra on Wednesday night, prompting a military intervention by at least 20 Ghanaian soldiers, Africa News reported on Thursday.
Former Brexit Party MEP Claire Fox has said that the government’s “restrictive, inhumane, and illiberal” lockdown measures need further scrutiny, but warned that debate on the response to coronavirus is being “demonised”.
With no reliable majority for May’s administration in the House of Commons, and both the Commons and the Lords dominated by politicians who never wanted to leave the EU in the first place, the country was quite literally ungovernable…
Parliament has ratified Boris Johnson’s deal: the new treaty will be law when the country ends the Brexit transition period on December 31st.
British MPs voted by 516 to 38 to turn the United Kingdom into a totalitarian police state.
Labour’s shadow government minister for legal aid, Karl Turner MP, has said that freedom of speech does not include the freedom to “generally offend.”
Just 12 Conservative Members of Parliament rebelled against the Tory government and voted down the controversial ‘rule of six’ coronavirus social distancing law.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson could face two party rebellions on the House of Commons over his coronavirus laws, with Tory rebels threatening to lodge a protest vote against the ‘rule of six’ on Tuesday and voting against the curfew on Wednesday.
Conservative MP Philip Davies has criticised the government’s “nanny state socialist” coronavirus response, after the House of Commons had voted to extend the emergency powers which gives the prime minister autonomy to pass legislation without requiring parliamentary scrutiny.
A British MP has followed President Donald Trump’s lead by rejecting ‘unconscious bias training’. Ben Bradley, who represents the working class, traditionally Labour seat of Mansfield in Nottinghamshire, has been reprimanded by parliamentary officials for refusing to participate in what he calls “indoctrination”.
Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has warned that the British government is acting like an “elected dictatorship” as it continues to pass coronavirus laws without parliamentary scrutiny.
Some 40 Conservative MPs are reportedly planning to refuse to take Black Lives Matter-inspired ‘unconscious bias training’, while reports claim that parliamentary staff have been encouraged to make confessionals about their “privilege”.
Compulsory “unconscious bias” training for MPs. Could there possibly be a more pointless, frivolous, or insulting way of making Britain’s politicians even more useless or bigger a waste of money than they are already?
Senior staff at the British Parliament have confessed their white privilege and pledged to be “allies” to minorities as the legislature pilots “unconscious bias training” for elected MPs.
Scuffles erupted inside Taiwan’s legislative chamber on Friday as opposition lawmakers protested for the third day President Tsai Ing-wen’s nomination of her senior aide to a top government watchdog role, Reuters reported on Friday.
Sir Winston Churchill’s statue in Parliament Square, Westminster has been vandalised on the 76th anniversary of the D-Day landings by Black Lives Matter protesters.
British parliamentarians overseeing the country’s official petitions process have written to Boris Johnson’s government demanding a real answer to a petition to release a buried report on the ethnicity of grooming gangs.
Remote voting, a pet project of left-wing parliamentary reformers has been nodded through in response to coronavirus concerns.
The Commons has resumed business with a digital hybrid chamber powered by Zoom, the video conferencing service marred by security concerns.
The British parliament was sparsely attended Wednesday, as members were told to stay away unless their presence was essential.
The British government has confirmed that it will not be shutting down parliament “at present” despite one of its MPs having contracted coronavirus and another going into self-isolation as a precautionary measure.
