In the aftermath of the debate Bentinck resigned the leadership and feuded with Stanley, leader in the Lords and overall leader, who had opposed the measure and directed the party whips — in the Commons — to oppose the measure as well.

The following year, Major watched his first debate in the House of Commons – Harold Macmillan's only budget – and has attributed his political ambitions to that event, and to a chance meeting with former Prime Minister Clement Attlee on the King's Road.

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.

Crossman, opening the debate on 19 November, said the government would reform the Lords in five ways: removing the voting rights of hereditary peers ; making sure no party had a permanent majority ; ensuring the government of the day usually passed its laws ; weakening the Lords ' powers to delay laws ; and abolishing the power to refuse subordinate legislation if it had been voted for by the Commons.

In 1910, Alexandra became the first queen consort to visit the British House of Commons during a debate.

In the House of Commons, at least 100 Members must vote in favour of the motion for cloture to be adopted ; the Speaker of the House of Commons may choose to deny the cloture motion if he or she feels that insufficient debate has occurred, or that the procedure is being used to violate the rights of the minority.

" In March 1952, a poorly prepared ( and possibly inebriated ) Bevan came off the worse in an evening Commons debate on health with Conservative backbencher Iain Macleod: Macleod's performance led Churchill to appoint him Minister of Health some six weeks after his debate with Bevan.

On 4 August 1876, Chamberlain made his maiden speech in the House of Commons during a debate on elementary schools.

In a subsequent debate in the Commons, Benn's demand for " a full analysis of the costs in life, equipment and money in this tragic and unnecessary war " was rejected by Margaret Thatcher, who, apparently unaware of Benn's service in World War Two and the loss of his brother, stated that " he would not enjoy the freedom of speech that he put to such excellent use unless people had been prepared to fight for it ".

On 6 May 1791, a tearful confrontation on the floor of the Commons ( officially, and rather irrelevantly, during a debate on the particulars of a bill for the government of Canada ) finally shattered the quarter-century friendship of Fox and Burke, as the latter dramatically crossed the floor of the House to sit down next to Pitt, taking the support of a good deal of the more conservative Whigs with him.

According to the Minister, David Curry, in the Commons debate on the order on 11 January 1995, this caused a delay from 1 April 1995 as the reorganisation date to 1 April 1996.

After a debate, it was sent to James, who rejected it ; the Commons instead resolved to enter it into the Journal of the Commons, which required no royal authorisation.

In 1960, the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod arrived to summon the House of Commons during a heated debate, and several members protested against the disruption by refusing to attend the ceremony.

The government's policy was subsequently strongly attacked in the Commons on high moral grounds by Richard Cobden and Gladstone during a censure debate.

In May 2008, a robust debate in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom on the ethics of creating chimeras with human stem cells led to the decision that embryos would be allowed to be made in laboratories, given that they would be destroyed within the first 14 days.

The song also, pertinently, features samples of House of Commons debate on the Falklands War.

The procedures of the House of Commons require that members cover only points germane to the topic under consideration or the debate underway whilst speaking.

On 14 November 1977 Tam Dalyell, Labour MP for the Scottish constituency of West Lothian, asked during a British House of Commons debate over Scottish and Welsh devolution:

After further debate, the Commons informed the Lords that they would not accept the addition.

Following the acceptance of the Petition by the House of Lords, Charles sent a message to the Commons " forbidding them to meddle with affairs of state ", something that produced a furious debate.

One was written by Joseph Addison, reporting on the debate in the House of Commons over the grant to John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough and his heirs, following the Battle of Ramillies.

While they had yet to become electable as a government, they underlined their growing reputation as a worthwhile alternative to Labour and Conservative, offering plenty of debate in parliament and not just representing a protest vote.

After a further decade of debate, in 1983, JTS voted to admit women for ordination as Conservative rabbis, also without adopting an explanatory responsum.

However when fellow Conservative Julian Amery later in the debate criticised Powell for his antinuclear pronouncements, Powell responded: " I have always regarded the possession of the nuclear capability as a protection against nuclear blackmail.

During a debate on the legality on the 11 January 2012, UK Member of Parliament for Milton Keynes Mark Lancaster, Conservative, stated importation of Khat into the UK stands at 10 tonnes every week.

Chamberlain earned a reputation for provocative speeches during the period, especially during debate on the 1884 County Franchise Bill, which was opposed by the Whig Liberals Lord Hartington and George Goschen, as well as the Conservative leader Lord Salisbury, who argued that the Bill gave the Liberals an unfair electoral advantage and was prepared to block the Bill in the House of Lords unless it was accompanied by redistribution of seats into the suburbs.

The success of the neoconservative movement in appropriating the label " Conservative " has brought into debate the very definition of conservatism in Canada today.

During the January 9, 2006, party leaders ' debate for the 2006 federal election, Paul Martin pledged that a Liberal government would support a constitutional amendment that would prevent section 33 from being invoked by the federal government, and challenged Conservative leader Stephen Harper to agree.

In a June 1993 debate, Smith again savaged the Conservative Government, saying that under John Major's premiership, " The man with the non-midas touch is in charge.

He also performed very well in the motion of confidence debate in the Conservative government in July 1993.

The Imperial British Conservative Party also had a presence in Australia, especially during the republican debate of the 1990s.

In 1976, Michael Heseltine, a member of the Conservative Party seized the mace and brandished it at the opposing Labour Party members, during a heated debate on the Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Bill.

For instance, when the Conservative government of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper proposed a motion to re-open the debate on Canada's same-sex marriage laws, his Conservatives and the opposition Liberals declared it a free vote for their members, while the Bloc Québécois and the New Democrats both maintained party discipline to defeat the measure.

On October 19, 2006, during a debate on the Conservative Party's clean air plan, MP Mark Holland said that a Liberal colleague, David McGuinty asked MacKay about the impact of pollution on humans and animals by asking, " What about your dog ?".

Wilson ’ s mother wrote to Bonar Law ( former Conservative leader and increasingly seen as an alternative if the Coalition ended ) complaining that, in a noisy Commons debate, Lloyd George had claimed to have been a personal friend of Wilson ’ s.

On 4 April 1938, during a heated House of Commons debate in which he had been criticising the government's foreign policy, he slapped the face of the Conservative MP Commander Robert Tatton Bower after Bower told him to " go back to Poland ".

The current Conservative government position on abortion is that a debate on abortion legislation will not take place in Parliament.

The fact that the merger took place in Toronto, a region with a lower proportion Conservative MPPs, further polarized the debate on the merit of the merger.

When the report was considered by the House of Commons, the Conservative Party organised its MPs to attend the debate to " Save Reggie ".

Nevertheless, during a subsequent committee debate on the bill, the Conservative Member of Parliament for Beaconsfield, Dominic Grieve, sought to exclude Jedi Knights explicitly from the protection of the proposed act.

Similarly, in April 2006, Edward Leigh, the Conservative Member of Parliament for Gainsborough, asked whether he would be allowed to set up a Jedi knights faith school during a Committee debate on the Education and Inspections Bill.

She earned an undergraduate degree in 1973 and a law degree in 1976, both from Ottawa, where she served as features editor of the student newspaper, The Fulcrum, and was a member of the English debate team and the Progressive Conservative Campus Club.

During a break in the Terror Bill debate on 9 November 2005, Marshall-Andrews was seen talking to Conservative MPs Andrew Mitchell, Greg Knight and Damian Green in the Commons lobby.