Submitted on Monday 16th April 2018
Rejected on Monday 23rd April 2018
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Legal requirement of full parliamentary debate prior to acts of war to others
There is no codified parliamentary procedure that formally requires the Government to seek approval before taking military action.
We cannot allow Government to attack countries without Parliament being fully informed about the type of threat, who is affected and the risks to actions being taken.
In practice governments in modern times have usually ensured parliamentary debate. In 2006, Tony Blair, acknowledged that he could not “conceive of a situation in which a Government... is going to go to war – except in circumstances where militarily for the security of the country it needs to act immediately – without a full parliamentary debate”.
The arguments for making a change is logical and such an important one that it should not bypass democratic representation.
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