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Preparing for Minority Government, in partnership with the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung | Ep.56

It's Bloody Complicated - A Compass Podcast

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What Can Labour Really Do if It Doesn't Have a Majority in Parliament?

One of the things that one would wants, it would be helpful to have thought through, is what actually you can do as a government in terms of your policy priorities. If you don't have a parliamentary majority, would have a minority. Andad i think you can be an effective minority government. There are examples of it in our history and in other westminster systems. But it obviously imposes constraint, not on what you can do,. You can't dis legislate to do anything you want. It doesn't really matter because ivin, one of the point i madei my pers and none of the other parties who possibly from the d u p are at all likely to support the continued

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