I was there: first-hand account of 3 am House sitting: what happens when the Commons pulls an all-nighter [Stalemate over closure]

It was the stuff of which Parliamentary legends are made. Last Tuesday, ornery opposition members, frustrated by what they saw as continued disdain for Parliament on the part of the government, kept cabinet ministers, backbenchers and even the prime minister himself in their seats for more than f...

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