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Ban on reporting the proceedings of Parliament

In which the Grauniad get muzzled.
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The Lawyer on the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill

The Lawyer has an article on the LRRB. The Legislative and Regulatory reform bill is supposed to reduce legislative burdern upon business, but it allows for law to be past without the oversight of parliament. Giving ministers powers to cut regulation sounds good. But when you have a government for which the answer to everything is [...]
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Excellent Independent Article

There is a well written article in the Independent today. I would advice everyone to read it. … And what is remarkable – in fact almost a historic phenomenon – is the harm his government has done to the unwritten British constitution in those nine years, without anyone really noticing, without the press objecting or the [...]
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Save Parliament – report following the debate

After initial optimism following an apparent climbdown on the ‘Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill’. The ‘Save Parliament‘ group have been discussing our response to the amended bill. The response has been published today After pushing the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill through the Committee Stage without changes in March, the government conceded that this was a very [...]
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The LRRB in parliament

In Parliament, we see the following exchange upon the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill Gordon Banks (Labour) I thank my hon. Friend for that response and welcome him to his new position, in which I am sure that he has experienced great joy in the past few days. In my constituency of Ochil and South Perthshire in [...]
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