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 Held to account |
What do Edward Pleydell Bouverie, William Pollard Urquhart, George Sclater-Booth, Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth and Osbert Peake have in common? All thes...
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| Winnng women |
Women aged over 30 won the right to vote in 1918, but it wasn’t until 1928 that the voting age for women was lowered to 21 years of age – the same...
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| Happy New Year |
AS THE PARTYING gets underway on New Year's Eve, two MPs will be having a double celebration - Scottish Nationalist, Alex Salmond, and Conservative,...
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| That'll be the day |
Elections haven't always been held on a Thursday. In 1931, the election was on a Tuesday. The 1922 and 1924 elections were both held on a Wednesday....
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| Hide and seek |
Following the failed gunpowder plot, Parliament decided to step up its security. Even to this day, before the state opening of Parliament, there is ...
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| Remember, remember... |
John Johnson. Who? You may well ask. Well, John Johnson was the alias used by Guy Fawkes when he rented the vacant coal cellar u...
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| Vive la difference |
Parliament prorogued this week – that is the official closure of this session of Parliament. In rounding up the business, Royal Assent is gi...
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| I'm all at sea |
Did you know that the Union Flag is commonly called the Union Jack. However, the Union Jack should only be used when the flag is flown at sea. There...
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| A treat of a treaty |
With all the talk of the EU treaty, did you know that Grimsby (which included Cleethorpes at the time) used to have a French MP? Paris-based Henri ...
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| PMQs |
Prime Minister's Question Time was first introduced in 1961 when Harold Macmillan was Prime Minister. Until 1997, there were two 15-minute PMQs...
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| Changed days... |
New PM, GB has decided to change Cabinet meetings from Thursday to Tuesday. Some people claim to be horrified at this apparent break with centuries-ol...
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| Smoke free Britain, smoke-full Palace of Westminster? |
While England has now gone smoke-free, the smoking ban does not apply to MPs – or so goes the popular misconception. In fact, smoking has been ban...
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| Did Tony Blair really resign? |
Tony Blair 'resigned' as an MP this week...or did he? Since 2 March 1623, MPs haven't been able to resign their seats. MPs whowant to resign must go t...
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