Date: Thu 26th August 2010 I will occasionally write about Bills passing through Parliament to seek your opinion. One such Bill is the Constitutional Reform Bill which proposes Fixed Term Parliaments, a reduction and re-sizing of constituencies and a vote on the electoral system for electing MPs. Fixed Term Parliaments…
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Date: Thu 19th August 2010 The sheer sense of our inheritance and history is something that strikes all new MPs and the majority of us believe in its continuation. The main Parliament building was destroyed by fire in 1834 and only Westminster Hall, where our monarchs and heads of state…
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Date: Fri 6th August 2010 Following a vehicle fire on the QEII Bridge at the Dartford Crossing which closed the Crossing for more than three hours, Gareth Johnson, the MP for Dartford, welcomed the news that the government had lifted the toll barriers to try to alleviate the traffic queues…
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