Sentences with phrase «powerful parliamentary committee»

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Unless and until Labour achieves some sort of coherence, it is a peculiarity of this parliament that opposition to a government with a truly precarious majority, arises in the oddest places: powerful individual performers, such as Keir Starmer and Angela Eagle, or dynamic parliamentary committees, such as the Women's Committee, chaired by Maria Miller.

Ian Marsh has hailed Select Committees as a «newly emboldened» and «empowered system», BBC Parliamentary correspondent Mark d'Arcy described the post-Wright SC system as «more powerful and independent - minded than ever before», and Sir Richard Ottaway, former Chair of Foreign Affairs Select Committee, said that the 2010 — 2015 Parliament would be remembered as «the Parliament of the Select Committee».