This Week in Parliament - Madeleine Moon MP

This Week In Parliament 20-24 May 2019

Brexit was high up on the Agenda once again this week. Speculation that the Government’s Withdrawal Bill will be brought back to the House swirled around at the start of the week. This was later confirmed by the Prime Minister, but a revolt of the Cabinet and looming defeat in…

This Week In Parliament 13 – 16 May

The week in the Chamber proved to be fairly normal in terms of Legislation passing through the House. However, the wheels of Brexit have slowly started moving forward. With the talks between the two parties looking like they will come to nothing, due to the Government’s intransigence, the Prime Minister…

This Week In Parliament 07-09 May

The Government confirmed this week that the UK would be participating in the European elections. Even though this has been obvious for some time, the confirmation adds a little more clarity to the future of the Brexit process. Members can now anticipate how the Government will approach the issue, with…

This Week In Parliament 29 April – 2 May

An eventful week ended the sacking of the Secretary of State for Defence over the leaking of sensitive information. Whatever the final result of this fiasco, it has prompted Members to ask much needed questions about our national security in the cyber age. At the Defence Select Committee meeting on…

This Week In Parliament 23-25 April

The Easter break gave Members some much needed breathing space to get back to their Constituencies. This week brought to the fore several issues to remind us both of the wider world beyond of Brexit, and brought sharply into focus some of the real world consequences of the risks involved…

This Week In Parliament 8 – 11 April

The Government has been forced to engage with Members to a greater degree than they have in the past now that Parliament has, to an extent, taken control of the Brexit process. Although events this week may have appeared chaotic, it shows that Parliament is functioning as a legislative body,…

This Week In Parliament 1 – 4 April

With Parliament wresting control of the Agenda on Brexit this week, the House finally seems to be making progress. While the indicative votes procedure did not come to a clear conclusion, the process did chart the direction in which the Commons wishes to move. The Prime Minister has been forced…

This Week In Parliament 25 – 28 March

This has been another tense, difficult and unpredictable week with Brexit yet again centre stage. A week of contradictions where the Prime Minister insisted that she was opposed to a confirmatory ballot of any deal, but felt it was acceptable to offer her resignation in return for Conservative Members who…

This Week In Parliament 18th – 21st March

The Government’s Brexit plans were thrown into further disarray this week when the Speaker ruled that the Prime Minister would be unable to bring her Deal back to Parliament without a significant change. Although the Government has attempted to portray its inability to command a majority in the House as…

This Week In Parliament 11th – 15th March

Finally it appears that some progress has been made this week in the Brexit process. Although on the surface the impasse is still very present, the series of votes held in the Chamber now mean that options have been narrowed down and a path forward can be glimpsed. The House…

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