Proceeding contribution from Kelvin Hopkins (Labour) in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 18 January 2011. It occurred during Debate on bill and Committee of the Whole House (HC) on Fixed-term Parliaments Bill.
Fixed-term Parliaments Bill
Is not the great advantage of our present system that if a Government do not get a particularly big majority—such as in 1964 and February 1974—the arrangements are sufficiently flexible to allow us to hold another general election fairly soon afterwards so that one party or another can get a reasonable majority?
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- 521 c756
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- 2010-12
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- Administration General elections Fixed-term parliaments Dissolution Censure motions Prorogation Sunset clauses
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- Fixed-term Parliaments Bill 2010-12
- Parliament Act 1911
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