Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
In 2015, a petition called for legalisation of cannabis in the United Kingdom attracted more than 200,000 signatures and was debated in parliament. [24] [25] A petition in December 2015 sought to ban Donald Trump from entering the UK; this gained more than 550,000 signatories and caused the website to crash.
An election petition is a petition challenging the result of an election to a United Kingdom Parliament constituency.The Parliamentary Elections Act 1868 transferred the jurisdiction for considering petitions from the House of Commons to the law courts.
The Petitions Committee is a parliamentary committee of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. Its role is to oversee petitions submitted to Parliament, including both electronically through the UK Parliament petitions website, and traditional paper petitions. The committee is one of the youngest in the Commons, formed in 2015, and is made ...
At least 14,276 of the signatures were from people based outside the United Kingdom, according to self-declared locations required in the petition forms. Thousands of signatures came from the ...
(London, Houses of Parliament. The Sun Shining through the Fog by Claude Monet, 1904). Parliament (from old French, parler, "to talk") is the UK's highest law-making body.. Although the British constitution is not codified, the Supreme Court recognises constitutional principles, [10] and constitutional statutes, [11] which shape the use of political power. There are at least four main ...
The UK government publishes a list of 100 proposed locations for potential new towns in England, with Housing Minister Matthew Pennycook saying work on them will begin before the next general election. [83] 14 February – The UK government scraps the role of independent adviser on political violence, created before the last general election. [84]
The Constitution Committee is a cross-party select committee of the House of Lords, the upper chamber of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.The committee's remit is "to examine the constitutional implications of all public bills coming before the House; and to keep under review the operation of the constitution". [1]
The European Council subsequently agreed that this deadline could be extended, and UK law changes are planned to do that. [6] [7] Following a ruling in December 2018 by the European Court of Justice that the United Kingdom may legally revoke Article 50, the petition to do so was started on 20 February 2019 by a former college lecturer. [8]