Sentences with phrase «days in parliament»

Senator Ridgeway makes his valedictory speech in the Senate in the lead up to his last days in Parliament.

Conservatives MPs have camped out for four days in parliament to force a debate on radical right - wing policies, including a ban on the burka in public, the privatisation of the BBC and bringing back the death penalty.

Another Tory backbencher, one whose days in parliament are numbered, was the London mayor Boris Johnson.

From his early days in Parliament, the young, courageous and confident Bagbin inured himself in Parliament to the admiration of Ghanaians.

After a long day in Parliament, I like to go home and put a piece of jazz on, currently Gershwin, and sup a glass of white burgundy or a pinot gris.

All the details of a second of a historic day in parliament with politics.co.uk's minute - by - minute guide.

11:35 - Good morning, and welcome to what's likely to be a dramatic day in parliament.

Follow our live coverage of a historic day in parliament, as leading figures in the phone - hacking scandal face questions from MPs.

As someone who began working for an MP on his first day in Parliament, to losing my position at the 2015 general election, here are my top tips for surviving as a parliamentary researcher.

But while spending the day in Parliament, the MP realised in his usual disorganised nature that his passport was not with him or in his offi ce.

This has been a remarkable day in Parliament.

«A productive day in Parliament - with progress on banning illegal scrap metal dealing Main 70 Tory MPs vote to repeal the Human Rights Act»

He has also campaigned hard for the recognition of International Men's Day in Parliament.

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It still needs to pass a vote in parliament later in the day, although that is assured given the AK Party's majority.

All three candidates are expected to testify to Japan's parliament in the days ahead.

He is their representative in the Madrid parliament, where he has carved out a reputation as a rabble rouser, a rock star who marches into the chamber wearing T - shirts with political slogans, confronting the central government with provocative speeches, holding up props - from printers to handcuffs - to bring attention to his cause of the day.

Anti-Brexit protesters, one wearing a giant Theresa May head, hold placards outside Parliament on the day the Prime Minister will announce that she has triggered the process by which Britain will leave the European Union, in London, March 29, 2017.

LONDON — A rather cynical tradition has developed in recent years in which, in the final days and hours before MPs leave Parliament for their summer break, the government releases a deluge of embarrassing reports, statistics, and statements in an apparently deliberate attempt to bury them.

Also in the past two days, opposition leaders in the Ukrainian parliament have demanded impeachment proceedings against President Petro Poroshenko, who allegedly owned assorted assets through a British Virgin Islands holding company.

Greece's political leaders, more accustomed to screaming abuse at each other in parliament, issued an unprecedented joint statement after a day of talks at the president's office backing efforts to reach a deal with creditors.

For sure, Mr. Moore would be on surer footing here if the Conservative Party of Canada hadn't pleaded guilty to violating election spending limits in 2008 and if the Harper government wasn't the only government in this country's history to have been found in contempt of Parliament and if the RCMP wasn't said to be presently investigating Mr. Harper's former chief of staff and and if two Conservative MPs weren't presently in court with Elections Canada and if the Prime Minister hadn't left for Peru without facing the House on the first day that Parliament was in session after the deal between Mr. Wright and Mr. Duffy was revealed and if the Prime Minister hadn't fail to show up in the House on the following Monday and if Mr. Duffy hadn't remained a Conservative senator for awhile despite having apparently claimed a housing allowance he shouldn't have.

Testifying to Parliament a few days later, a former Cambridge employee, Christopher Wylie, contended that the company helped swing the results in favor of Britain's withdrawal from the European Union.

Late last Friday Joe Oliver was forced table a Ways and Means Motion in Parliament because the Finance Department had inadvertently posted it on the its web site earlier in the day.

Instead of running ads, they would define Scheer more slowly, over time, with a series of forced choices in Parliament, through government motions, much as opposition parties usually seek to define governments (you'll note that «define» in Ottawa politics is almost always pejorative by implication) through clever use of their occasional opportunity to define a day's parliamentary debate through so - called «supply motions.»

Normally Parliament recesses in mid-June, which implies that there may be only 15 days for committee review of Bill C - 59 by both the House of Commons and the Senate.

The prime minister faces a crucial confidence vote in Parliament at midnight Friday, after two days of acrimony that saw many of his own lawmakers and ministers rebel.

It has quality assets here in Texas, quality assets in the U.S., and with the recent news coming from the Russian Parliament that they may cut off uranium and titanium exports to the U.S., it is actually going to be debating this on May 15, the stock has been up about 20 or 30 % in the last few days, in large part because of the safety that the assets provide jurisdiction wise.

The same is true of gender and minority representation, since the expectations of the day, unfortunate as they were, didn't commonly include the belief held by many today that Parliament should look, think, and care about issues in broadly similar ways to the country at large.

«In its early days one of the boldest decisions of the Scottish Parliament was to legislate to end homeless.

While the Evangelicals» concern for the social problems of their day was mainly practical and philanthropic, trying to effect change through Acts of Parliament and by giving relief to those in need, the response of the Church of England's High Church party, known as the Tractarians or Oxford Movement, was more theological.

«People have found no better thing than this to do for kings at their crowning and for criminals going to the scaffold; for armies in triumph or for a bride and bridegroom in a little country church; for the wisdom of a Parliament or for a sick old woman afraid to die... tremulously, by an old monk on the fiftieth anniversary of his vows; furtively by an exiled bishop who had hewn timber all day in a prison camp; gorgeously for the canonization of St Joan of Arc.»

Lobsang Choedak, a spokesman for the exiled Tibetan government, said the changes were carried out during a three - day session of its parliament in the Himalayan town of Dharamsala, India.

With that in mind, it should not surprise you that in England, Cromwell's Parliament decreed in 1647 that Christmas be a day of penance and then banned it outright in 1652.

I then attended a gathering hastily convened by the local member of parliament - taking place in a room above a local supermarket — followed by a much larger public meeting with the police later in the day.

(One of the reasons the founding fathers were adamant all Americans would have freedom of whorship) It's too simplistic to say the English reformation happened because Henry 8th wanted a divorce, it happened because of the influence of Martin Luther and the rise of Protestants in Europe and because the Catholic Church had become too powerfull, wealthy and corrupt and did not hesitate to burn people it considered Heritics, In England Guy Fawkes Day is celebrated as the foiling of a terrible plot to kill the king, James the 1st and most of the parliamenin Europe and because the Catholic Church had become too powerfull, wealthy and corrupt and did not hesitate to burn people it considered Heritics, In England Guy Fawkes Day is celebrated as the foiling of a terrible plot to kill the king, James the 1st and most of the parliamenIn England Guy Fawkes Day is celebrated as the foiling of a terrible plot to kill the king, James the 1st and most of the parliament.

A committed meat free eater, in 2009 Dr Pachauri addressed the European Parliament alongside MFM founder Paul McCartney, calling on people around the world, particularly in the developed nations, «to change their diet to one meat free day as the most effective way to combat global warming.»

Associated with the Parliament there will be a three - day multi-faith journey to the Murray River entitled «Walking humbly», which will engage with different communities affected by the Black Saturday bushfires and drought in Victoria's Murray - Darling Basin.

That day, at the Parliament Hill, there are thousands of Canadians dressed in red and white!

In 2015, the UK Parliament was projected to come out about even between the top two parties, but the conservatives won by over 5 %, ending up with the majority (which was considered to be a near 0 % chance possibility as the day began), this summer Brexit passed (considered almost certain to fail as the day began, ended up passing by 4 %), and last month the Colombian Peace Referendum failed (after being consistently polled to pass by about 10 %).

«We are dismayed the terms of the review were only formally made available almost three weeks after the review was announced and only days before an announcement of the results of the review are expected in parliament,» Sikh Federation chairman Bhai Amrik Singh said in a letter to David Cameron.

A Tamil protestor on hunger strike in Parliament Square could die within the next few days, his fellow demonstrators fear.

On a visit to Parliament Square in the 1960s, Mandela had joked with fellow activist Oliver Tambo that one day they would see a statue of a black person there.

He says he would speak to him «three or four times a day» when Hunt was in parliament and he was in the department.

MPs and Lords will have six days to polish themselves up in time for the State Opening of Parliament the following Wednesday, where any jokes about Black Rod are entirely inappropriate.

Indeed the Northern Peoples Party's leader Chief Dombo's action showed great magnanimity towards NOT Busia, but the building of a strong opposition to Nkrumah and his CPP who were having a field's day at elections since 1951 and also in Parliament.

In the days after the final results were in and Britain's first hung parliament since the Second World War was confirmed the head - scratching continueIn the days after the final results were in and Britain's first hung parliament since the Second World War was confirmed the head - scratching continuein and Britain's first hung parliament since the Second World War was confirmed the head - scratching continued.

Politicians accrued some respect, but then most people only saw their local MP when he opened the village fete rather than being able to tune in to watch the antics in parliament any time of day.

The history of this event was described by Caroline Shenton, then Director of the Parliamentary Archives, in her superb book The Day Parliament Burned Down (2012).

Led by their leader, Honourable J. H. Mensah, the NPP Minority walked out of the House and boycotted the rest of the day's proceedings and that was the last that was heard in Parliament of «the Gwarzo affair» Nana Ato Dadzie and Kwamena Ahwoi stated that, they appreciate their time working under Rawlings and would never intentionally seek to discredit him in any way.

It is far from obvious why Parliament should have indulged in his crotchets one eccentric backbencher in opposition to the Government of the day.