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Mark Pack

Why should an MP be allowed to veto a piece of legislation in secret?

By Mark Pack | Mon 15th March 2010 - 10:08 pm

Some bad old secrecy habits clearly still linger on in parts of the Conservative Party.

Step forward: Christopher Chope MP and his veto of a Bill to aid developing countries.

The Bill was at a stage where any one MP objecting to it would kill it off, and that’s what he did. In itself, of course it’s perfectly fair for an MP to view a Bill as being wrong. Myself, I’d change the weird way Parliamentary rules work to produce this power of veto,  but given it’s there I don’t hold it too much against an MP for using it.

But that doesn’t cover Christopher …

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