The General election of 2010 resulted in no single political party having a sufficient majority of seats in the House of Commons to form a majority government. Consequently, a Coalition Government of Conservative party and Liberal Democrat party was formed for the first time in nearly seventy years.
Some
of the recent significant legislations of the Coalition Government includes:
the Fixed Term parliaments acts 2011; the Parliamentary Voting system and
Constituencies Act 2011; and European Union Act 2011.
The Fixed-Term parliament Act 2011 provides that General election
will be held at a fixed date every five years (subject to provision for
exceptional circumstances).
The
Parliamentary Voting system and Constitutional Act 2011 reduces the number of
seats in the House of Commons from 650 to 600. This number of seats will be
effective from the next elected parliament in 2015. It also provided for a
referendum to be held at which the voters would be asked whether they wished
the current voting system for General elections, the Simple majority System, to
be changed to the Alternative Vote System. The electorate rejected the proposal
in the referendum held in May 2010.
The
European Union act 2011 reflects the Coalition government's commitment not to
transfer any further powers from the United States Scotland
The British constitution
bends but not breaks. It adapts to the need of the time, yielding at the
aspirations of people, both its citizens and outside. This Constitution is the
product of history: a slow and rather largely peaceful process of evolution. Changes have been
brought about on the basis of experience rather than by some conscious 'grand
design.' The 1997 election, however, ushered in a government with an agenda for
significant constitutional change, much of which has been achieved. The
evolution of the constitution and the current reform program
illustrate the flexible
nature of the Constitution.
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