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Dr Alice Lilly
@aliceolilly
Senior Researcher @instituteforgov and Learning & Development Manager @ifgacademy: all things parliament, govt, ministers, policy making. Sport fan.
Dec 8, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Ok, I’m going to do this one last time before I lose my mind.

1. The Salisbury Convention is a convention that sets out that the Lords should not block legislation implementing something that was in the government’s manifesto.

This is distinct from… 2. The Parliament Act is *law* which sets out the circumstances in which the government may force legislation (manifesto commitment or not) through the House of Lords. It has detailed requirements about timing of the legislation that govt must satisfy.
Feb 25, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Remarkable how, in recent years, successive PMs have largely abandoned the expectation (as set out in the Ministerial Code) that policy announcements are made *in Parliament first* Image At some points this has been understandable- eg in the worst parts of the pandemic, when govt was having to take decisions very quickly and when public communication of that policy was especially important.

But it’s happened for so many other policies without the same urgency
Oct 20, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Right, I am going to explain why there has been confusion over who voted and the division lists last night.

MPs vote by filing through division lobbies- one for aye, one for no. It used to be that clerks in the lobbies manually took down names of each MP in each lobby. But… Since 2020, that’s changed. MPs still file through the relevant division lobby but instead of clerks recording their votes, they use an electronic card reader to record their votes instead.

However…
Oct 19, 2022 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Going to try and explain what is happening here- yes, it's a ~procedural thread~ Today is an Opposition Day- time in the Commons where an opp party (today Labour) gets to decide what is debated and voted on. Most of the time, it's the government who decides that. (We'll come back to this point in a moment)
Sep 29, 2022 • 17 tweets • 5 min read
So: what is the parliamentary status of the measures announced in the non-Budget last week? And what might that mean for what happens next?

It is unsurprisingly a bit complicated—read on… On 23 Sept, the Chancellor gave a statement that was, in sheer economic scale, a Budget—but was NOT a Budget in procedural terms. More on that from @tompope0 instituteforgovernment.org.uk/blog/kwasi-kwa…