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Commons and wanted
The use of anagrams and fabricated personal names may be to circumvent restrictions on the use of real names, as happened in the 18th century when Edward Cave wanted to get around restrictions imposed on the reporting of the House of Commons.
She said she was leaving the Commons for personal reasons as she wanted to spend more time with her family.
Gaunt evidently wanted a ' mirror-image ' as his form of counter-coup and this notion, born in crisis, of one ' speaker ', who quickly also became ' chairman ' and organiser of the Commons ' business, was recognised as valuable and took immediate root after 1376-7.
Whilst the idea of giving this spokesman personal immunity from recrimination as only being the voice of the whole body was quickly adopted and did enhance the Commons ' role, the Crown found it useful to have one person with the authority to select and lead the lower house's business and responses to the Crown's agenda, much more often than not in the way the Crown wanted.
The main reason was actually that Churchill wanted to remain in the House of Commonsby 1955, Randolph's political career was ' already hopeless '.
He was appointed as chair of the House of Commons standing committee on Finance, and in 2007 indicated that he wanted to remove financial access to offshore tax havens such as Barbados.
After the war, he wanted to follow in his father's footsteps and enter the House of Commons.
On November 23, 2007, The Globe and Mail reported that the Commons Ethics Committee wanted to summon Schreiber to testify before it on November 27 and 29.
In October 2007, amid speculation that then-Prime Minister Gordon Brown was about to call a snap general election, former Labour minister Tony Benn announced that he wanted to come out of retirement and return to the Commons, offering himself to the Kensington and Chelsea constituency Labour Party to challenge Malcolm Rifkind.

Commons and address
However, while in the House of Commons during Question Period, other members of parliament may address the prime minister as The Right Honourable, Member for minister's Electoral district ( Canada ) | riding < nowiki ></ nowiki > or simply The Right Honourable Prime Minister.
Pitt's maiden speech in the Commons was delivered in April 1736, in the debate on the congratulatory address to George II on the marriage of his son Frederick, Prince of Wales.
Although he was initially buried at Hayes, with graceful unanimity all parties combined to show their sense of the national loss and the Commons presented an address to the king praying that the deceased statesman might be buried with the honours of a public funeral.
** Winston Churchill, in his first address as Prime Minister, tells the House of Commons, " I have nothing to offer you but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
The parliament was called to grant taxation, but the House of Commons took the opportunity to address specific grievances.
In a policy speech on May 15, 2008, which outlined a number of ideas, McCain said, " I will ask Congress to grant me the privilege of coming before both houses to take questions, and address criticism, much the same as the Prime Minister of Great Britain appears regularly before the House of Commons.
Fox was to address the House of Commons some 254 times between 1768 and 1774 and rapidly gathered a reputation as a superb orator, but he had not yet developed the radical opinions for which he would become famous.
His language was relatively unstudied and his delivery somewhat embarrassed, but he generally found words to say the right thing at the right time and to address the House of Commons in the language best adapted to the capacity and the temper of his audience.
On the 28th of November, Oates accused her of high treason, and the Commons passed an address for her removal and that of all the Roman Catholics from Whitehall.
Dennis Sewell states that " On the day the House of Commons met to debate the Beveridge Report in 1943, its author slipped out of the gallery early in the evening to address a meeting of the Eugenics Society at the Mansion House.
The Commons then passed an address condemning the growth of popery in England.
However, Blair later snubbed Major by declining to invite him to a 2007 joint address to the House of Lords and House of Commons on the peace process.
Peter de la Mare, a knight representing Hereford, had been elected as Speaker by the House of Commons, and on the first day he delivered an address criticising England's recent military failures, condemning the corruption at court, and calling for close scrutiny of the royal accounts.
He nonetheless insisted on being addressed as " Lord Lambton ", the form of address appropriate to his former courtesy title, though a ruling of the Committee for Privileges said that he should not do so in the House of Commons since he had renounced his peerage.
" The resolution was passed by the Canadian House of Commons, but no address was ever presented.
In his Commons address, Blair stated that what he regards as myths about the European Union, were so prevalent that " it is right to confront this campaign myth-making head-on ".
A common style of address for presidents, " Mr. President ," is borrowed from British Parliamentary tradition, in which the presiding Speaker of the House of Commons is referred to as " Mr. Speaker.
In response to an address of the Commons, he was raised to the peerage as Baron Colchester, of Colchester in the County of Essex, with a pension of £ 4000, of which £ 3000 was to be continued to his heir.
Over the next few days separate committees drafted three documents: an address to the king, a memorial to the House of Lords, and a petition to the House of Commons.
He was however remembered only as a regicide, and an address from the House of Commons was presented to William III by Sir Edward Seymour requesting the king to issue a proclamation for his arrest.
On December 9, 1998, she collapsed in the House of Commons just seconds after standing to address the House.
The prize was established in honour of Shaughnessy Cohen ( February 11, 1948-December 9, 1998 ), an outspoken and popular Liberal Member of Parliament from Windsor, Ontario who died after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage in the House of Commons of Canada just seconds after standing to address her peers.
To address these issues, several private members ’ bills have been introduced in the Senate and House of Commons since 2005.
His maiden speech, delivered on 13 November 1755, during the debate on the address, which excited Walpole's admiration, is generally supposed to have been his only effort in the House of Commons.

Commons and different
The Treasury Commission ceased to meet late in the 18th century but has survived, albeit with very different functions: the First Lord of the Treasury is now the Prime Minister, the Second Lord is the Chancellor of the Exchequer ( and actually in charge of the Treasury ), and the Junior Lords are government Whips maintaining party discipline in the House of Commons ; they no longer have any duties related to the Treasury, though when subordinate legislation requires the consent of the Treasury it is still two of the Junior Lords who sign on its behalf.
The bill was in a few respects different from its predecessors ; it no longer proposed a reduction in the total membership of the House of Commons, and it reflected data collected during the census that had just been completed.
As the office has developed historically, however, it has taken on a clearly partisan cast, very different from the speakership of most Westminster-style legislatures, such as the Speaker of the British House of Commons, which is meant to be scrupulously non-partisan.
Gwinn Commons is home to three different areas of interest.
As of July 2011, Creative Commons licenses have been " ported " to over 50 different jurisdictions worldwide.
The officer may still be titled Speaker, as ( since 2006 ) in the House of Commons, or use a different title, such as " President " as in the Australian Senate.
The Scottish Parliament constituency of Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross was created in 1999 and now has boundaries slightly different from those of the House of Commons constituency.
BBC Parliament also provides full, recorded coverage of the House of Commons ' second chamber Westminster Hall during weekends, when they will also broadcast selected evidence sessions from different Select committees of the House of Commons.
He is unusual in that he has contested two Parliamentary by-elections caused by the resignation of two different Speakers of the House of Commons.
In 1822 he was made King's Counsel He was returned at different times for various boroughs to the House of Commons, where he made himself prominent by his opposition to the Reform Bill of 1832.
In November 2008, Connarty was one of 18 MPs who signed a Commons motion backing a Team GB football team at the 2012 Olympics, saying football " should not be any different from other competing sports and our young talent should be allowed to show their skills on the world stage ".
In November 2008, Donohoe was one of 18 MPs who signed a Commons motion backing a Team GB football team at the 2012 Olympics, saying football " should not be any different from other competing sports and our young talent should be allowed to show their skills on the world stage ".
In November 2008, Moffat was one of 18 MPs who signed a Commons motion backing a Team GB football team at the 2012 Olympics, saying football " should not be any different from other competing sports and our young talent should be allowed to show their skills on the world stage ".
In November 2008, Hood was one of 18 MPs who signed a Commons motion backing a Team GB football team at the 2012 Olympics, saying football " should not be any different from other competing sports and our young talent should be allowed to show their skills on the world stage ".
He sat in the House of Commons for two separate periods between 1970 and 2010, as a member of three different political parties, latterly as the Conservative Party Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Orpington until 2010.
Horam was the only MP to have sat in the House of Commons as a member of three different parties since the Second World War.
For example, British acts of parliament will start with: " BE IT ENACTED by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows ..." The phrasing, however, is different when the bill is passed under the provisions of the Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949, without the consent of the House of Lords.
The Commons agreed on 1 May that Floyd should pay a fine of £ 1, 000, stand in the pillory in three different places for two hours each time, and be carried from place to place on a horse without a saddle, with his face towards the horse's tail, and holding the tail in his hand.
In his campaigns, Reid promoted the now-obscure cause of " free suffrage ," i. e. that there should not be different standards for who could vote for members of the North Carolina House of Commons and of the North Carolina Senate.
* Cabinet ministers from the House of Commons were no longer required to undergo re-election when taking a different portfolio in the cabinet.
The Irish peers were in a peculiar political position ; because they were subjects of the King of England, but peers in a different kingdom, they could sit in the English House of Commons, and many did.
The Irish peers were in a peculiar political position ; because they were subjects of the King of England, but peers in a different kingdom, they could sit in the English House of Commons, and many did.
In November 2008, Robertson was one of 18 MPs who signed a Commons motion backing a Team GB football team at the 2012 Olympics, saying football " should not be any different from other competing sports and our young talent should be allowed to show their skills on the world stage ".

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