NINTH YEAR OF OFFICE
BRITISH HOUSE OF COMMONS LONGEST PARLIAMENT SINCE 1679 By voting itself a ninth year of office, the present House of Commons becomes the longest Parliament since 1679, the second-longest in British history, states the London News Bureau of Fact. The longest was for 18 years from 1661-1679 in the reign of Charles 11. It passed the Habeas Corpus Act. The present Parliament has been maintained so long (1935-1943) that>no citizen under the age of 28 has ever voted in a general election. The present Parliament has seen three Kings, three Prime Ministers (Baldwin, Chamberlain, Churchill), a Royal Jubilee, an abdication, an outbreak of war, and the destruction by Nazi bombs of the historic Commons Chamber. With little opposition, the House of Commons accepted the Bill prolonging Parliament’s life for another year.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25428, 8 January 1944, Page 7
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135NINTH YEAR OF OFFICE Otago Daily Times, Issue 25428, 8 January 1944, Page 7
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