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My mother wasn't pleased at all Local BH20 electrician, with over forty years’ when President Zelensky zoomed in to the Chamber
of the House of Commons to deliver a speech in
when I kept leaf cutting ants, experience offering:- March. But it is also a place of tradition and ancient
it nearly drove her up the wall customs, as well as strange terms and phrases.
when they chomped her potted  Consumer Unit (fuse In May Parliament will be Prorogued, which means
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when she served me with my lunch, Alterations to Existing important people like the Speaker of the House of Commons, and the Sergeant
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completed, Members of the House of Commons leave the Chamber, and return
which they would munch and  Portable Appliance to their constituencies. A few days later there will be the State Opening of
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will be required to go to Buckingham Palace before the Queen arrives in
Parliament. He will then be kept “hostage” under guard, until the Queen returns
safely back from Parliament. This tradition has been kept since the time of
Charles 1 , to ensure that the monarch does not come to any harm whilst
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attending Parliament. Parliament will also be searched before she arrives – not
only by expert sniffer dogs and police, but also ceremonially by Yeoman of the
Guard who will search the cellars in case there is a modern-day Guy Fawkes
hiding below.
The Queen's speech is read in the House of Lords – and there will be a limited
number of Members of Parliament sitting in the gallery and the rest of us will be
crowded in to stand in "at the bar" of the
Chamber. The speech is written by the
Government, and details the Bills we will be
bringing forward in the coming year. Later
that day, the MPs return to the House of
Commons where we will debate the
Queen's speech. These debates usually last
for several days, and will be on a variety of
issues that have been outlined in the
speech. At the end of the debates, there
will be a vote on the speech and its
contents.
Whereas Queen Victoria did not attend

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