A hung parliament would bring power back to the House of Commons, says Clare Short
April 10, 2010 10:11 AM
Houses of Parliament (Palace of Westminster) from Royal Victoria Gardens.
As reported in the Oxford Mail today, the former Labour cabinet member and Secretary of State for International Development Clare Short has said that a hung Parliament would be "terribly good" for the country. Ms Short said the Labour party had "considerably lost its way" and Parliament was "broken". She said a hung Parliament would "bring some power back" to the Commons chamber and make the Government less "arrogant" and responsive to other views.
Ms Short, who quit the Labour party over the Iraq war and sat as an independent is leaving Parliament after 27 years as an MP. She told BBC Radio Four's Today programme: "The Labour party has considerably lost its way. The state of the Commons is terrible. No one goes in the chamber. Everything is guillotined. You can't get any time to make a substantial speech. Nobody listens to anybody. It's miserable. It's in very bad shape, this Parliament, as we leave.
"I think a hung Parliament would be terribly good for us because it would bring some power back to the chamber."
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