Proceeding contribution from Lord Rennard (Liberal Democrat) in the House of Lords on Thursday, 27 May 2010. It occurred during Queen's speech debate on Queen's Speech.
Queen's Speech
My Lords, I beg to disagree on the basis that if you do not have a percentage like that, you simply do not have a fixed-term parliament. If it is possible for one party with 50 per cent plus one of the seats in the House of Commons to trigger an election, you allow that party, for its own interests, to choose the time of the election, rather than have the fixed term that works in so many other countries.
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