Talk:List of government defeats in the House of Commons since 1945

Change to caption
Removed the phrase "all while in minority government" from the caption to the picture of Theresa May. The UK Government has a confidence and supply agreement with the DUP at time of writing and therefore does not constitute a minority government.

Still makes them a minority government though Krynh (talk) 20:00, 15 January 2019 (UTC)

Change to speaker election rules
Does the 26 March 2015 vote to change the rules for elections to speaker count for the purposes of this article. Although it was supposedly a free vote pertaining to an internal matter of the House of Commons, it was nevertheless whipped. Smurrayinchester 13:52, 4 July 2016 (UTC)

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16 July 1951
I can't find anything in Hansard for this date at all (it was a Monday, and not a holiday, but neither house seems to have sat). The only division relating to compulsory purchase I can find for Atlee's entire premiership is on 29 April 1949, when a Conservative motion failed to reverse a government amendment. Hairy Dude (talk) 04:48, 16 January 2019 (UTC)

"This was the largest defeat on a government motion ever recorded in British parliamentary history"
This assertion has been widely reported in the press, but it is unfortunately unverifiable, for two reasons: first, the Commons retains the right to sit in private, during which a division might have happened that Hansard could not record; second, no report of parliamentary debates is known before about 1771, which leaves over 700 years in which a heavier defeat might have been inflicted without us, in 2019, knowing about it. As such, I've weakened the statement to "biggest defeat on a government motion ever recorded in Hansard". I still don't know if this is true, since the press reports mostly cite a defeat of Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and say it's the biggest since then, or the biggest "in the democratic era", presumably meaning since the Representation of the People Act 1832. It seems odd that none are cited from the 19th century. Hairy Dude (talk)

Main Page Image
At the risk of sounding partisan and/or responding with undue haste to developing events, would it be worth considering replacing the main page image (currently former PM Theresa May) with a photo of Boris Johnson? Carnivoredaddy (talk) 20:32, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

Okay, looks like someone beat me to it! Carnivoredaddy (talk) 17:27, 11 September 2019 (UTC)