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What's on: Tuesday 17 December 2019

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View more information about The Father of the House will preside over the election of a Speaker. If the former Speaker, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, indicates that he is willing to be chosen as Speaker, the Father of the House will call a Member to move a Motion that he take the Chair as Speaker.) (1)
Election of Speaker
The Father of the House will preside over the election of a Speaker. If the former Speaker, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, indicates that he is willing to be chosen as Speaker, the Father of the House will call a Member to move a Motion that he take the Chair as Speaker.
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2:30pm
Sir Peter Bottomley
Conservative, Worthing West
View more information about Members will begin to swear in: first the Speaker, then the Father of the House, members of the Cabinet and Shadow Cabinet, other privy counsellors and other Ministers, then other Members by length of service. ) (2)
Swearing in of Members of the House of Commons
Members will begin to swear in: first the Speaker, then the Father of the House, members of the Cabinet and Shadow Cabinet, other privy counsellors and other Ministers, then other Members by length of service.

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