On 26 November 2020, the House of Lords is due to debate a trade deal, the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement between the UK and Japan. This article looks at the deal and the scrutiny it has received from the House of Commons International Trade Committee and the House of Lords International Agreements Sub-Committee.
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Elections in Burma (Myanmar), November 2015 (96 KB, PDF)
The Burmese general election was held on 8 November 2015. The final results revealed that the National League for Democracy (NLD) gained an absolute majority in the country’s Parliament (the ‘Hluttaw’). Despite this, NLD leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, is constitutionally barred from becoming Burma’s new president, due to a provision prohibiting anyone whose spouse or children are foreign nationals from holding office.
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Elections in Burma (Myanmar), November 2015 (96 KB, PDF)
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On 9 November 2020, the House of Lords voted to remove from the United Kingdom Internal Market Bill controversial clauses relating to the Northern Ireland Protocol. This article explains what these votes were about and considers what might happen in relation to these clauses in the bill’s further parliamentary stages.
