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Could The SNP Really Overturn 400 Years Of No Clapping Tradition In The Commons?
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Dec 10, 2015 08:40pm |
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| Category | General |
| Author | Aubrey Allegretti |
| News Date | Friday, August 14, 2015 02:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The SNP's newest cohort of MPs could help push for the overturning of a centuries-old Westminster tradition, House of Commons Speaker John Bercow has suggested.
In a speech at the Edinburgh Festival, Bercow suggested that the 56 new parliamentarians from north of the border could call for a lift on the Chamber's applause ban, something they have previously been strongly rebuked for breaking.
MPs currently register their support or disapproval of statements in Parliament by either shouting "hear, hear!" or braying.
New Scottish Members have received slapdowns from Bercow and his deputies for ignoring this rule and clapping instead, a common custom in the devolved Scottish Parliament of Holyrood.
Asked why MPs were not allowed to applaud, Bercow told his audience: "I think my attitude to that is if the House wants to change its procedures, it can, if they vote to do so."
"The House doesn't like applause as a method of approval," he added, insisting that changes should not be made to rules hundreds of years old "on the hoof". |
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