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The Norway Debate, sometimes called the Narvik Debate, was a momentous debate in the British House of Commons from 7 to 9 May 1940, during the Second World War. The official title of the debate, as held in the Hansard parliamentary archive, is Conduct of the War. The debate was initiated by an adjournment motion enabling the Commons to freely ...
This is a list of successful votes of no confidence in British governments led by prime ministers of the former Kingdom of Great Britain and the current United Kingdom.The first such motion of no confidence to defeat a ministry was in 1742 against Robert Walpole, a Whig who served from 1721 to 1742 and was the de facto first prime minister to hold office.
A motion or vote of no confidence (or the inverse, a motion of confidence and corresponding vote of confidence) is a formal expression by a deliberative body (often a legislature) as to whether an officeholder (typically an executive) is deemed fit to continue to occupy their office. The no-confidence vote is a defining feature of parliamentary ...
The city of Spur has released a statement about the firing of Chief Billy R. Spears from his post, which came after a 4-2 no-confidence vote from the city council late last month.
In the United Kingdom, confidence motions are a means of testing the support of the government (executive) in a legislative body, and for the legislature to remove the government from office. A confidence motion may take the form of either a vote of confidence, usually put forward by the government, or a vote of no confidence (or censure motion ...
SPENCER — For the first time, the Spencer Fire Department is staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Thanks to a $1 million FEMA grant, the department hired four more firefighters who started ...
election. William Pitt. Pittite. The 1784 British general election resulted in William Pitt the Younger securing an overall majority of about 120 in the House of Commons of Great Britain, having previously had to survive in a House which was dominated by his opponents.
v. t. e. In July 2022, a motion of confidence in the second Johnson ministry was tabled in the House of Commons. The motion, debated on 18 July, was laid by the government itself after it had refused to allow time for a Labour Party no-confidence motion. [1] The Government won the vote on 18 July, but the Prime Minister resigned in September.