A governing party's refusal even to vote on Opposition Day motions is a contempt of Parliament, and thus a contempt of the electorate. But it is a thoroughly amusing one, when the reason for it is the knowledge that the Government was going to be defeated.
This Government does not have a majority on the floor of the House of Commons. It cannot disguise that fact forever, or indeed for very much longer at all. Indeed, it is now the will of that House that the pay cap be lifted in the NHS, and that there be no year-on-year increase in undergraduate tuition fees. Here's to many more such expressions of the will of the House.
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