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It’s Summer Recess, so we've got some gripping parliamentary history for you 📚👑
@jonathanhealey.bsky.social's The Blood in Winter explores the day Charles I tried to arrest 5 MPs —and failed.
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🎙️ NEW EPISODE: 1642: The King marches on Parliament. Soldiers at the Commons door. A failed arrest becomes a turning point in parliamentary history.
Historian @jonathanhealey.bsky.social tell us the gripping story in The Blood in Winter.
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🔔 THURSDAY IN PARLIAMENT
🏗️ Peers scrutinise the Planning & Infrastructure Bill
🎩 Sir Tim Barrow (ex-NSA & former Ambassador to EU, Ukraine & Russia) introduced to the Lords
🚫 Commons not sitting – Lords rise for Summer recess after today
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🔔 WEDNESDAY IN PARLIAMENT
🏛️ Lords debate Employment Relations Bill
🪖 Peers review Commons’ amendments to Armed Forces Commissioner Bill
🌍 Ivo Daalder (former US NATO envoy) gives evidence on UK‑US future ties
🚫 Commons not sitting today
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🔔 TUESDAY IN PARLIAMENT
🏛️ Lords debate foreign state ownership of media
❓ Health Ministers face MPs’ questions
🌞 David Amess Summer Adjournment – MPs can raise any issue
🎩 Ex–Civil Service chief Simon Case joins the Lords
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Later today @Keir_Starmer faces the Commons Liaison Committee.
Will select cmtt chairs press him on the:
✅ super-injunction?
✅ @DefenceHQ Afghan data breach?
🎙️ We unpack the legal, constitutional & financial questions in our latest podcast with @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social
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🔔 MONDAY ALERT: What’s on Parliament’s agenda today?
❓ PM will be grilled by the Liaison Committee of select committee chairs
🇯🇵 MPs mark 80 years since Victory over Japan
🔴 Lords debate Renters' Rights, Employment Rights & Hereditary Peers Bills
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NEW EPISODE 🎙️ A secret Afghan data leak, an unprecedented super-injunction & big questions over parliamentary accountability. @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social joins us this week to discuss the legal and constitutional fallout.
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WEDNESDAY: What's coming up in Parliament today?
❔ Prime Minister's Questions
🪑 Foreign Secretary and Work and Pensions Secretary appear at select committees
💼 Peers scrutinise the Employment Rights Bill
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This afternoon, Conservative MP Dame Caroline Dinenage will present a Ten Minute Rule Bill to regulate online providers of fertility services.
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TUESDAY: What's coming up in Parliament today?
🔵 Conservative Opposition Day on taxes and welfare
🔋 Energy Security and Net Zero oral questions
🔴 Peers debate Renters' Rights Bill
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Excellent blogpost from @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social this morning (with credits to the Hansard Society's newsletter!).
As he highlights, there are three interesting events in the Commons today, each of which will put the sovereignty of Parliament on display.
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MONDAY: What's coming up in Parliament today?
🧑⚖️ Deprivation of Citizenship Orders Bill
🪖 E-petition debate on Northern Irelanr veterans
🏠 Deputy PM Angela Rayner faces oral questions
💼 Peers debate Employment Rights Bill
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OUT TOMORROW - One year on: How is Parliament performing?
In our next episode, we look at where Parliament, the Government and the legislative programme stand after one year.
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🎉 Parliament Matters podcast hits 100 episodes tomorrow!
Across 100 episodes, we've heard insights from politicians, academics, historians, and others about the institution at the heart of our democracy: Parliament.
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And the @conunitucl.bsky.social's Director, Prof. Meg Russell, appeared on the last episode of our Parliament Matters podcast, to talk about the Constitution Unit's new opinion polling and wider issues of Lords reform.
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Today's section of our weekly Parliament Matters Bulletin summarised the other groups of amendments that peers will vote on later.
It also highlighted what happened on the first day of Report Stage, including a significant government defeat.
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🔽An interesting thread below from @conunitucl.bsky.social on proposals to limit the size of the House of Lords, which will be the subject of an amendment to the Hereditary Peers Bill put to peers this evening.
09.07.2025 12:00 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0🚨 The Hereditary Peers Bill will see its second and final day of Report Stage in the House of Lords today.
Our weekly Bulletin looked at the significant amendments agreed so far, and which amendments are set to be debated next.
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This afternoon, Labour MP @chrisbloore.bsky.social will present a Ten Minute Rule Bill to require schools to have an allergy management policy and hold a supply of adrenaline auto-injectors.
What is a Ten Minute Rule Bill and how do they become law? Our guide explains 🔽
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