Sentences with phrase «allowing urgent questions»
Bercow is supported by many Labour MPs for his often interventionist role in helping MPs hold the government to account, regularly allowing urgent questions — part of the reason why a number of Tories object to him.
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Some of the shine was taken off that choreography, however, when pesky Jeremy Corbyn — and even more pesky John Bercow — agreed while the PM was on his way to Wiltshire that the Labour leader should be allowed to ask an urgent question in the Commons.
This has happened more so since May 2010, when the Speaker allowed far more Urgent Questions, and since direct elections for membership of the select committees have given those committees a greater democratic mandate.
Among the changes is a rehabilitation of the «urgent question», a piece of procedure which allows MPs to raise topical issues more quickly.
The Presiding Officer should not allow the Welsh Government to meddle with the Urgent Question process in the Assembly, Kirsty Williams AM has said today.