Another take on reform in UK's Parliament
Patrick Wintour, writing in The Guardian, notes that PM Brown is "scrambling to assemble a more radical final year agenda..." in hopes of staving off a landslide loss in the next election. Could your students predict likely results of the changes Brown proposes?Gordon Brown promises to hand power back to parliament
Gordon Brown... endorsed radical measures to put a revived parliament back at the centre of British political life, in a reform package designed to revive his flagging constitutional agenda and restore MPs' lost credibility.
The prime minister set out ideas to curb the power of whips and surrender to MPs important controls over the way Westminster business is conducted. In future, MPs would elect all select committees, take control of the Commons' business programme, and be given a greater chance to introduce legislation...
[Labour MP Tony] Wright argues, in common with other MPs, that the expenses scandal and lack of respect for parliament stemmed partly from the fact that the role of MPs trying to hold the government to account had been reduced to one of "heckling a steamroller"...
David Cameron said the prime minister's proposals were a smokescreen to distract attention from Brown's loss of authority, and used prime minister's questions to call for an immediate general election. The Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg, urged Brown to cancel the Commons' 72-day summer break to ensure the reforms are in place by the autumn...
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