What is a ‘supermajority’? The terms is used to refer to a significant majority; perhaps two-thirds. To win a majority this big, would clearly be a remarkable result for the Labour Party in this General Election. But, in the UK’s House of Commons, such a majority has no value in and of itself. Continue reading
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The Conservative MP and candidate for Leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, has pledged to repeal section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013 as a matter of “urgency”. Continue reading
Yesterday in the House of Commons the Government was skewered over its plans to allow extremists or dictators to set up front organisations in the UK and brand themselves “news publishers”, to benefit from a wide ranging and poorly drafted exemption to the Online Safety Bill. Several newspapers have rushed to defend the loophole because they themselves would benefit from. Continue reading
On 17 March 2022, the Government finally published the Online Safety Bill, which will now make its way through Parliament – with the expectation that it will ultimately become law. Continue reading
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