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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 speaker's role in presiding over the House of Commons of Canada is similar to that of speakers elsewhere in other countries that use the Westminster system. The 38th speaker of the House of Commons is Greg Fergus, who assumed the role on October 3, 2023. He is the first person of colour to be elected speaker.
The Speaker of the House of Commons is the presiding officer of the House of Commons, the lower house and primary chamber of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. [3] The current speaker, Lindsay Hoyle , was elected Speaker on 4 November 2019, following the retirement of John Bercow .
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 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 ...
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 ...
The Government House Leader, officially known as the leader of the Government in the House of Commons of Canada (French: leader du gouvernement à la Chambre des communes du Canada), is the Cabinet minister responsible for planning and managing the government's legislative program in the House of Commons of Canada.