Sentences with phrase «debated points of order»

Gordon Brown was present in the Commons for the Speaker's statement, but left as MPs debated points of order.

Not exact matches

The price tag was met with much debate as the majority of fans pointed out that whilst the 23 year old has talent that would be a well worthy of investing in, in order to develop at the club, the fee is a bit commanding for his goal scoring record so far.

-- has been so politicized by debate and sanitized by political correctness to the point that nowadays, apparently everyone is legally bound by court order to agree that all its advantages are basically negligible, a «given» that merits no special round of applause.

2.40 pm: Michael Howard rises to make a point of order - calling the arrest of Damian Green an «attack» on parliament - and calls for freedom in next Monday's debate to question Government Ministers and House authorities.

He or she calls Members to speak, proposes and puts questions and declares the decision, enforces the rules of debate, rules on points of order and ensures that the provisions of the standing orders in their application to the Main Committee are applied.

It appears Bercow is now, more than ever, granting Labour spurious SO24 debates, Points of Order and even advising them on how to use arcane parliamentary procedures to whack the government, in an attempt to shore up the support he needs on the Labour benches.

His statement describing those events should be followed by the beginning of the debate on the Queen's Speech, but various MPs are expected to raise points of order on the affair, at the very minimum.

I followed up this contradiction and the failure to publish the data with a Point of Order to the Speaker on 24th June, in a Westminster Hall debate on 30th June 2015, in a letter to the Prime Minister on 14th July, in a second Point of Order on 15th July, in an urgent Written Question to the Prime Minister on 16th July and in an Urgent Question in Parliament on 21st July.

14:55 - The speaker ends the points of order to move on to the Queen's Speech debate.

He stresses Howard needs to make a point of order, not have a debate.

The Speaker points out that MPs keep on using their points of order to start a debate, but says - and this is very interesting - he will continue to allow them because of the extent of «anger» in the House.

Labour chief whip Nick Brown had raised a point of order complaining about the Government tabling statements on an Opposition Day, thereby reducing the amount of time available for debate.

He also raised a point of order in the House of Commons to call for a debate on whether MPs should still be allowed to mark their own homework.

At the outset this morning a delegate raised a point of order complaining that Conference Arrangements Committee had refused to allow debate on re-nationalisation of the railways despite 43 organisations having submitted such resolutions.

That is the first order or debate or rhetoric is to support your opinion, either through your own evidenced expertise, or those of others who have significant expertise to bolster your point.

The carefully - concealed errors in the paper, especially when taken together with the University's refusal even to reply to my own questions about the methodology even before it was published, as well as its refusal to order the immediate release of the authors» data to Professor Tol, would be likely to persuade any jury that a fraud has taken place, for the points at issue are not complex matters that could be debated either way.

Released on appeal but unable to fight or leave the country, Ali turned to the lecture circuit, speaking on college campuses, where he engaged in heated debates, pointing out the hypocrisy of denying rights to blacks even as they were ordered to fight the country's battles abroad.