Tag: House of Commons

• Thursday, September 26th 2019 - 08:13 UTC

  PM Johnson defies the opposition to call a confidence vote on Thursday, and a “snap election”

  

  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday challenged opposition MPs to call a confidence vote in his government, in a defiant response to the Supreme Court decision to strike down his suspension of parliament.

• Wednesday, September 11th 2019 - 09:36 UTC

  PM Johnson insists he will not request an extension to Brexit, despite parliament, which is suspended until 14 October

  

  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Tuesday he would not request an extension to Brexit, hours after a law came into force demanding that he delay Britain’s departure from the European Union until 2020 unless he can strike a divorce deal. 

• Tuesday, September 10th 2019 - 09:25 UTC

  Parliament rejects a snap election and demands government publish all documents related to a “no deal” Brexit

  

  British MPs rejected a second attempt by Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday to call an early election to break the Brexit deadlock, in a final show of defiance before he controversially suspends parliament. After a tumultuous few days that exposed Johnson's weakness in the face of hostile lawmakers, the House of Commons again refused to grant a snap poll that might have bolstered his position.

• Tuesday, September 10th 2019 - 09:00 UTC

  House speaker makes it official: Berkow stepping down after ten years on Oct. 31

  

  John Bercow, the speaker of Britain's House of Commons, officially announced on Monday that he would step down within weeks, amid criticism by Brexit hardliners who say he has twisted parliamentary rules to undermine them.

• Thursday, September 5th 2019 - 09:48 UTC

  PM Johnson defeated: parliament reject early election and insist on delaying Brexit to January

  

  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government was left in limbo on Wednesday after MPs voted to derail his Brexit plan and rejected his call for an early election to break the political deadlock.

• Wednesday, September 4th 2019 - 09:45 UTC

  Johnson will expel 21 Tory MPs who voted with the opposition

  

  All 21 lawmakers from the ruling Conservative Party who voted against the government to back a motion to seize control of parliamentary time to try to block a no-deal Brexit will be expelled from the party, a spokesman said.

• Wednesday, September 4th 2019 - 08:56 UTC

  PM Johnson defeated; parliament now has to decide what's more urgent a vote on Brexit or a snap election

  

  Prime Minister Boris Johnson raised the prospect of a snap election on Tuesday after he suffered a major parliamentary defeat over his Brexit strategy that could delay Britain's exit from the European Union.

• Thursday, August 29th 2019 - 10:00 UTC

  Furious reactions, political and in the streets to the suspension of Parliament

  

  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson manoeuvred on Wednesday to give his political opponents even less time to block a chaotic no-deal Brexit before the Oct. 31 withdrawal deadline, winning Queen Elizabeth II’s approval to suspend Parliament, but his critics were outraged.

• Thursday, July 25th 2019 - 07:41 UTC

  Standing ovation in Parliament as Theresa May left Commons for the last time as prime minister

  

  British lawmakers gave outgoing Prime Minister Theresa May a standing ovation as they applauded her out of the House of Commons chamber after her final, at times emotional, appearance as leader on Wednesday.

• Thursday, April 4th 2019 - 08:49 UTC

  Commons with one vote difference passes a bill asking to delay Brexit

  

  The lower house of the British parliament on Wednesday approved legislation which would force Prime Minister Theresa May to seek a Brexit delay to prevent a potentially disorderly departure on Apr 12 without a deal.