Sentences with phrase «parliament backed a third»

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«There is not going to be a third runway going to be built in this parliament,» she shrugged back in 2012, «so as far as I'm concerned we're honouring the pledge in that manifesto.»

A lively London by - election is on the cards with Zac Goldsmith having resigned from parliament in protest against the government's backing of a third runway at Heathrow.

There will be further changes to the way the House does business when the Backbench Business Committee is able to look at both Government legislation and Back - Bench business, and we are told that that will not start until the third year of this Parliament — another recipe for delay.

The Fixed - Term Parliament Act dictates that elections will take place every five years — unless two - thirds of the Commons backs a snap vote.

Labour are in third place [in the Scottish parliament] and unless we are audacious now, we will never win back the support of the people of Scotland,» he wrote.

Obviously, we're only halfway through the parliament, but what would be a celebration of our third birthday without a look back at the immediate past and a little look to the future.