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Gary Gibbon on Politics - Official's worries over fixed term parliaments bill

Dr Malcolm Jack is the Clerk of House of Commons ... when he speaks the earth here quakes and people pay attention.

He's about to do just that in front of the Constitutional Affairs Committee where he is going to say that the Coalition's Fixed Term Parliaments Bill leaves dissolutions dangerously open to judicial review.

Putting the dissolution process in statute is the risk, he's expected to explain to the Committee. It used to be something that just happened.



Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Tue Sep 7th, 2010 at 06:36:17 AM EST
The fixed term Parliaments bill is another piece of legislation pending before the House of Commons. I have not looked at that bill in detail. Clearly it needs careful drafting, so the views of the Clerk would be important.
by Gary J on Tue Sep 7th, 2010 at 08:29:02 AM EST
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