Yeah, the US system doesn’t really have the government as Westminster does, it has appointed cabinet and agency officials instead.
If these were government ministers instead of backbenchers on a private trip it would be taken a lot further than a “please don’t” message from the foreign secretary.
It’s still a hell of a telling statement though.
Not the same thing. MPs are classed as frontbench and backbench. The Prime Minister can employ up to 140 MPs and Lords as ministers. This is the government, and forms the frontbench of the governing party. Non-government MPs of the governing party are backbenchers.
Both these MPs are backbenchers. They hold no office in the government, have little more influence on policy than any other member of the Labour Party.
There are strict separations between government and Parliament, a principle known as dual sovereignty. In some areas Parliament is sovereign, and in others (such as treaties, wars, most foreign policy) the King is sovereign, delegating his power to the Cabinet. So parliamentary powers are not government powers.
They are not government officials.
It’s a (small) purchase by the UK taxpayer, buying European. Seems the right place.
When Europe decided it wanted to create its own convention on human rights, they enlisted the English to write it, so respected is the English legal system among the other members.
The EU has always been clear that it prefers Britain on the inside, and has left the door wide open for its potential return. The special sweeteners Britain once had may be more hotly discussed.
He blatantly used AI to find trade with the US. Due to sanctions there’s almost none.
Ubuntu had a general crackling issue introduced last year, an issue around a buffer size which I fixed by copying
/usr/share/pipewire/pipewire-pulse.conf
To ~/.config/pipewire
Uncomment
pulse.min.quantum = 128/48000
And increase to 512/48000. Restart.
systemctl --user restart wireplumber pipewire pipewire-pulse
Increase buffer until stuttering ends. Note this also introduces delay to audio.
Perhaps your issue is something similar? I wouldn’t blindly make these changes on your end, but maybe it’s something to search up on.
Not sure actually. One of the MPs is on the Foreign Affairs Committee, but the other is on no committees so it would be odd. But yeah, MPs can gang together on “fact-finding trips” without it being official business.