Shadow leader visits UK clerks

The House chats with Kieran McAnulty about a recent trip which included visits with the Clerks of the Scottish and Uk Parliaments.

Kieran McAnulty, Labour's Shadow Leader of the House, chats with Phil Smith about a recent trip to the UK, where he met with the Clerks of both the Scottish and UK Parliaments. Listen at the link below.

The trip's primary objective was an investigation of UK housing policy (in light of the NZ Government looking toward recent UK housing ideas), but McAnulty also took the chance to share knowledge of Parliamentary rules and operations with the parliamentary clerks who run Westminster and Holyrood. Meetings he found both valuable and fascinating.

McAnulty also returned with parliamentary tools: approaches to continuing MPs' education in parliamentary practice, and hot-off-the-press induction materials for Westminster's new MPs. After the UK's July 4th election there are an extraordinary 335 MPs new to Westminster - more than half of the Parliament's total 650.

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