oxfordsimon

You may be a former MP but you are wrong on this. They submitted a conditional motion which is a valid motion for debate but does not meet the threshold for an automatic debate under the convention. … (View Post)

Yawn. It is the conditional nature of the motion that means it does not meet the required threshold. Labour knows what it has to do to get this debate. But they seem unwilling to do so. Explain why t… (View Post)

I suspect the thinking was to make it easier for Tory rebels to vote for it by making it conditional. But it has backfired. (View Post)

They can retable it as a standard VONC and they will get the debate. Starmer is being very badly advised. They tried to be too clever and failed. (View Post)

That would explain it. It isn't a properly tabled VONC (View Post)