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Excellent description of what should happen Part one and then in part two what does happen, I hope Helen Szamuely will do part three how we can put it right.

EU Referendum: “The legislative process as it is and as it should be #1

To argue our way through what is happening to our legislative process, we need to understand how it is supposed to work and why it is not working in that way. The form may have survived but the substance is no longer there.

To get a couple of misunderstandings out of the way first: legislation is not passed by the House of Commons alone; it is also important to remember, as the media rarely does that the Second Reading of a Bill in either House is not the end of the process. The Second Reading is almost invariably passed but the real work starts at Committee stage.

The Legislative Process as it should be:”