Part of Oral Answers to Questions — General Election – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 29 Mai 1945.
Mr James Maxton
, Glasgow Bridgeton
12:00,
29 Mai 1945
May I ask whether it would not be much more desirable, rather than raising vexed constitutional issues on the powers of Lords and Commons, if the Prime Minister would recognise that the people of Scotland would not, for more than a temporary period, be ready to accept a Secretary of State who sits in the other House of Parliament?
In a general election, each constituency chooses an MP to represent it by process of election. The party who wins the most seats in parliament is in power, with its leader becoming Prime Minister and its Ministers/Shadow Ministers making up the new Cabinet. If no party has a majority, this is known as a hung Parliament. The next general election will take place on or before 3rd June 2010.
The other chamber of Parliament, i.e. the House of Lords when said in the Commons, and the House of Commons when said in the Lords.
Secretary of State was originally the title given to the two officials who conducted the Royal Correspondence under Elizabeth I. Now it is the title held by some of the more important Government Ministers, for example the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
