Sentences with phrase «english grand committee»
As to your comment: «English Grand Committee... would meet when the Speaker decreed that legislation introduced by the UK executive would only affect England.»
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That is why he opposes proposals like an English Grand Committee because such proposals tackle the injustices that, unmitigated, could eventually produce a breakdown.
[3] Scottish Conservative Sir Malcolm Rifkind has also written about the issue, proposing an English grand committee as a possible solution.
On Tuesday in the Commons we were asked to go into English Grand Committee to approve the Rating Bill that has been making its way through Parliament.
Sir Malcolm Rifkind, a former Scottish secretary and Edinburgh MP and now Tory MP for Kensington and Chelsea, proposed an English grand committee with similar powers.
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News of Labour support for a grand committee of English - only MPs has been swiftly undercut by a new Tory idea which sets the dividing lines for the 2015 general election.
A grand committee is actually the lightest option available to a party which has tried, until now, to avoid facing up to the imperative that only English MPs should vote on English laws.
They're embracing a grand committee, but with the twist that any additional amendments will face a «veto vote» of English - only MPs.
All the signs coming out of the initial talks were that they could not agree on the makeup of a «grand committee» of English - only MPs which doesn't affect the rest of the country.
One alternative is the grand committee of around 80 English - only MPs.
The initial deadlock was over the makeup of a grand committee of English - only MPs put forward by the Lib Dems.
A «grand committee» of all English MPs would then have to approve the legislation.
No it would be crazy not to have an English Parliament, as such its is appreciated that Scots think the West Lothian question is a problem, how big of them, but then it matters not one jot, for the Scots voted for what they wanted, and got it, now its long past the time when English people get to vote for what they want, and if they want to be fobbed off with some rubbish Grand Committee fine I'll go along with it, but English people should also be given the opportunity to vote for an equal settle to what the Scots vote for themselves, unless you are saying Britain no longer does equality?