Proceeding contribution from Lord Goldsmith (Labour) in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 10 May 2011. It occurred during Debate on bill on Fixed-term Parliaments Bill.
Fixed-term Parliaments Bill
That is the position under our present arrangements, which do not provide for a statutory term for Parliament other than the maximum term. If that is what the Government had wanted they could have had that without the fixed-term Bill. They could simply have said, ““This is what we are going to do””. History and time would have told us whether that was actually what would happen. That is what I was saying.
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- 2010-12
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- Devolution Elections Legislatures Fixed-term parliaments Dissolution Referendums Parliament Scotland Wales Coalition governments Statutory instruments Sunset clauses
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- Fixed-term Parliaments Bill 2010-12
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