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Just fancy that!

Sunday, February 10th, 2008

I wrote here about the limits of the Wilson Doctrine and said
It’s not clear, equally, whether the Wilson doctrine would apply to Gerry Adams, Martin McGuiness, Michelle Gildernew, Conor Murphy and Pat Doherty (the Sinn Féin MPs who have not taken an oath of allegiance and so are barred from sitting at Westminster).
Imagine my surprise [...]

 

A minor constitutional point

Wednesday, May 16th, 2007

Following on from last week’s PMQs, which I talked about here, I’ve come up with a rebuttal to all the (cheap, IMHO) points made by Cameron and, today, Hague about paralysis during Labour’s leadership election and calls for a leadership election.
The formal arrangements are that the Queen asks a member of the Commons (or, [...]