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House of Commons

noun

  1. the elective, lower house of the Parliament of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Canada, and various other countries in the Commonwealth of Nations.


House of Commons

noun

  1. (in Britain, Canada, etc) the lower chamber of Parliament
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


House of Commons

  1. The lower house of the parliament of Britain . It includes representatives from England , Northern Ireland , Scotland , and Wales , all elected by the people. It is more powerful than the House of Lords , the upper house of parliament. The leader of the ruling party in the House of Commons is the prime minister of Britain; the prime minister chooses a cabinet composed mainly of members of the House of Commons. ( Compare House of Lords .)


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The former House of Commons member also co-founded the Global Equality Caucus, a group of LGBTQ elected officials around the world who work to fight discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

This eminently House-of-Commons logic and morality was too suited to the audience not to be successful.

They have nothing but admiration for his jugglery and House-of-Commons tricks.

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