House of Commons to sit until midnight for next four weeks, Tories say NDP forced them

The government would need unanimous consent to adjourn the House early and the NDP says it won’t give its consent.

MPs will be sitting until midnight for the next four weeks until the House adjourns for the summer recess, and opposition MPs say they will continue to hammer the majority-governing Conservatives on the Senate expense scandal which they say can “bring the government down...

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