U.K.’s May Faces Power Struggle With Lawmakers in Majority Row
- Tories to get majority on law-making committees in May’s plan
- Corbyn: Tories trying to ‘rig’ Parliament, have no mandate
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U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May is facing a showdown with lawmakers over plans to make sure her Conservative party has majority control over scrutiny of all legislation in Parliament.
Her government is proposing to rip up U.K. convention on forming committees in Parliament to ensure Tories dominate these crucial groups that scrutinize draft laws. The main opposition party, Labour, says May’s plan amounts to “rigging” given that she failed to win a majority of seats in June’s election.