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However, cutbacks at BBC Parliament saw it drop all of its political programming in 2021 other than live and recorded coverage from Westminster and the devolved chambers [9] [10] This now means that linear television no longer provides significant coverage of the party conferences, with live coverage on BBC Two restricted to just the party ...
MPs vote 364–111 against a Conservative proposal to require the UK government to establish an inquiry into grooming gangs. [15] The Liberal Democrats are ordered to pay £14,000 to Natalie Bird, a former parliamentary candidate who says she was driven out of the party and barred from standing as an MP over her gender-critical views. [16]
Parliament voted to reject the government's request for the traditional three-day parliamentary "conference recess" by a margin of 17 votes due to opposition parties refusing to back any suspension of parliament until the potential no-deal Brexit on 31 October was averted, meaning that the conference clashed with the sitting of Parliament for ...
The 2016 Labour Party Conference at ACC Liverpool. The Labour Party Conference is the annual conference of the British Labour Party.It is formally the supreme decision-making body of the party and is traditionally held in the final week of September, during the party conference season when the House of Commons is in recess, after each year's second Liberal Democrat Conference and before the ...
There were 10,000 activities organised in 2021 in every region and nation of the UK, and in many other countries around the world, in which 1.1 million people took part. [34] The Open University's OpenLearn platform marked UK Parliament Week 2022 with a new 'social change' course. [35]
The Electoral Commission confirmed that the 2019 Parliament would, therefore, have to be dissolved, at the latest, by 17 December 2024, and that the next general election had to take place no later than 28 January 2025. [62] [63] With no election date fixed in law, there was speculation as to when the prime minister, Rishi Sunak, would call an ...
3 October – The 2021 Conservative Party Conference opens in Manchester. [45] 7 October – Conservative MP for Old Bexley and Sidcup James Brokenshire dies from lung cancer at the age of 53. [46] [47] 13 October – Labour MP for Leicester East Claudia Webbe found guilty of harassment. The Labour Party called on her to resign from parliament ...
This is a list of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed in 2024. Acts passed since 1963 are cited by calendar year, [ 1 ] as opposed to the convention used for earlier acts of citing the regnal year(s) in which the relevant parliamentary session was held. [ 2 ]