All 1 Debates between Kevin Brennan and Alex Norris

Mon 14th Mar 2022
Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Bill
Commons Chamber

Consideration of Lords amendments & Consideration of Lords amendments

Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Bill

Debate between Kevin Brennan and Alex Norris
Kevin Brennan Portrait Kevin Brennan
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Does my hon. Friend think there is any possibility that a future Government, or this Government given their past record, might abuse the power to dissolve Parliament in the way that they abused the power to prorogue Parliament during that period through a disgraceful hoodwinking of Her Majesty the Queen?

Alex Norris Portrait Alex Norris
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I am grateful for that intervention. I strongly believe in the maxim that how you do one thing is how you do everything, and I believe that the same cast of characters will broadly act in the same way at every opportunity. That tends to be, as with all the pieces of legislation that I listed, that the Government see things through a very narrow political prism, and that is what we are seeing today.