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Lucy Maria Powell (born 10 October 1974) [1] is a British politician who has served as Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Council since July 2024. [2] A member of the Labour and Co-operative parties, she has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Manchester Central since 2012.
The Leader of the House of Commons is a minister of the Crown of the Government of the United Kingdom whose main role is organising government business in the House of Commons. The Leader is always a member or attendee of the cabinet of the United Kingdom .
The Speaker presides over debates in the House of Commons, as depicted in the above print commemorating the destruction of the Commons Chamber by fire in 1834. At the beginning of each new parliamentary term, the House of Commons elects one of its members as a presiding officer, known as the Speaker.
The House of Commons is the name for the elected lower house of the bicameral parliaments of the United Kingdom and Canada. In both of these countries, the Commons holds much more legislative power than the nominally upper house of parliament. The leader of the majority party in the House of Commons by convention becomes the prime minister ...
The Justice Select Committee of the United Kingdom is a select committee of the House of Commons which scrutinizes the policy, administration, and spending of the Ministry of Justice. In addition, the committee examines the work of the Law Officers of the Crown , the Serious Fraud Office , and the Crown Prosecution Service .
With the size of her majority, Mrs Thatcher’s 11 years in power saw only one government Bill defeated in the House of Commons – a 1986 proposal to legalise the opening of shops on Sundays ...
In the vice president's absence, the presiding role is delegated to the most senior member of the majority party, who is the president pro tempore of the United States Senate. Since the Senate's rules give little power to its non-member presider (who may be of the minority party), the task of presiding over daily business is typically rotated ...
The Palace of Westminster, meeting place of the House of Commons and the House of Lords President of the United States Ronald Reagan addressing Parliament, 8 June 1982. This is a list of people who have addressed both Houses of the United Kingdom Parliament at the same time.