Mentions:
1: Sarah Jones (LAB - Croydon Central) I do not mind how noisy the Minister is; I do not want to curtail his right to be as noisy as he likes.We - Speech Link
2: Sarah Jones (LAB - Croydon Central) ensure that protests are reasonable, and do not put out the public too much. - Speech Link
3: Margaret Greenwood (LAB - Wirral West) When people go to a demonstration, they do not know who else will be there. - Speech Link
4: None We do not need these new provisions, and the Government know it. - Speech Link
5: Sarah Jones (LAB - Croydon Central) However, the Bill does not do anything on that; it is about protests. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Viscount Hailsham (CON - Life peer) have known him for over 60 years—rightly pointed out, the present Prime Minister illegally thought to prorogue - Speech Link
2: None , as it is reasonable for Parliament to do, to have regard to when going about its work, particularly - Speech Link
3: Lord Rennard (LDEM - Life peer) However, I do not believe that this is happening. - Speech Link
4: Lord Collins of Highbury (LAB - Life peer) prefer that the Government did not do it. - Speech Link
Oral Evidence Apr. 08 2022
Committee: Constitution CommitteeFound: the Government could prorogue Parliament whenever they liked for as long as they liked.
Oral Evidence Mar. 23 2022
Inquiry: Proposals for backbench debatesFound: Q8Chris Green: I do not know if this would normally be in scope at this stage of the debate, but the
Mentions:
1: Kevin Brennan (LAB - Cardiff West) in the way that they abused the power to prorogue Parliament during that period through a disgraceful - Speech Link
2: Julian Lewis (CON - New Forest East) I do not think it was a dreadful election—it was a brilliant election. - Speech Link
3: None be general elections, because I do not think that they were good chaps. - Speech Link
4: Patrick Grady (IND - Glasgow North) This is not control being taken back by Parliament but control being taken from Parliament by the Executive - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: None The courts should not and do not have any jurisdiction to interfere with proceedings in Parliament. - Speech Link
2: Lord Howard of Lympne (CON - Life peer) that hobbled Government, which did no good whatever to Parliament or the country.I do not understand - Speech Link
3: Lord Norton of Louth (CON - Life peer) What it can do is not necessarily what it should do. - Speech Link
4: Lord Trevethin and Oaksey (CB - Excepted Hereditary) That is why I intend to prorogue for an unusually long period of time.” - Speech Link
5: None Dealing with the question of “purported”, Boris Johnson plainly purported to prorogue Parliament. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Wolfson of Tredegar (CON - Life peer) If people do not like a Government, they can vote them out. - Speech Link
2: Lord Howard of Lympne (CON - Life peer) If the other place had wished to prevent the Prime Minister from exercising the prerogative to prorogue - Speech Link
3: Lord Judge (CB - Life peer) The words“any other matter that appears to the court to be relevant”do not do the trick. - Speech Link
4: Lord Wolfson of Tredegar (CON - Life peer) point is that the courts are not obligated to do so. - Speech Link
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Oral Evidence Jan. 28 2022
Committee: Justice Committee (Department: Ministry of Justice)Found: Parliament had not had any say on that issue.
Mentions:
1: Lord Beith (LDEM - Life peer) I have no idea, but he did not do so. - Speech Link
2: Lord Grocott (LAB - Life peer) If Parliament tries to do things that do not have majority support, the majority has all sorts of ways - Speech Link
3: None In this system we do not elect a Government. - Speech Link
4: None We all know that when you do not have fixed terms, Prime Ministers and Parliament will choose an election - Speech Link
5: Lord True (CON - Life peer) , analogous to the limit imposed on the power to prorogue Parliament in Miller II, and in effect require - Speech Link