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Screens line the rear wall of the temporary House of Commons chamber in the Sir John A. Macdonald building in Ottawa. The screens allow MPs to virtually join in to any proceedings. (Christian ...
It would be a model 21st-century parliamentary chamber that would demonstrate what the House of Commons could look like if it were fundamentally reformed. Such a model chamber would be designed to ...
Charles Barry’s original mid-Victorian House of Commons chamber became one of the most high-profile casualties of the Blitz when it was destroyed in May 1941. Its reconstruction after the war would be ...
Wet patches are seen on the carpet of the chamber of the House of Commons, London, after the sitting was delayed for 60 minutes as numerous buckets near the green benches were catching drips ...
Jennie the guide dog enjoys being in the House of Commons chamber because she knows she can get a “good lie down”, according to her MP. The Liberal Democrats’ furriest frontbencher ...
The House of Commons endured a day of acrimony and descended ... Here the PA news agency takes a look at what happened on one of the chamber’s most heated days since the Brexit debates of ...
As such, it can claim popular sovereignty as well as the right to rule. The House of Commons is the first chamber of Parliament and is also called the Lower House. It is probably the institution most ...
The last Speaker, Mark Fergus, will face off against half a dozen contenders when Parliament returns Monday to vote on who ...
where MPs are meant to speak across the aisle of the House chamber. According to the House of Commons website , the aisle is traditionally just under four metres wide, or "two sword lengths" — a ...