BBC Parliament
BBC Parliament will mark the work of Britain’s law-making chambers in a special live programme as part of BBC’s Democracy Day, on Tuesday 20th January, commemorating the 750th anniversary of the earliest Parliament in Britain - Simon de Montford’s English Parliament of 1265.
Published: 6 January 2015
This first Parliament did not have elections to select its members, but it is the first form of any representative body to challenge the absolute power of the monarch in this country.
From 9.30 to 11.30am, BBC’s Deputy Political Editor James Landale will be joined by political and parliamentary correspondents to explain the work of all the parliaments of the United Kingdom and to see them in action. There’ll be live coverage from Holyrood, Stormont, Cardiff Bay, Brussels, the Lords and Commons, and guests in the studio will include those who venerate our political systems together who those wish to see them undergo dramatic change.
