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Sir Desmond Swayne tops private members bill ballot
Key takeaways
- The PMB ballot is held at the start of every parliamentary session, where each backbench MP who enters is allocated a numbered white ball, and 20 balls are randomly pulled from a goldfish bowl.
- What Sir Desmond Swayne will do is yet to be decided, but in 2024 he wrote of how he hoped "like hell" to be unsuccessful each time he entered the ballot.
- Last session, the winner was Labour MP Kim Leadbeater, who brought forward the controversial Assisted Dying Bill, which ran out of time to pass into law.
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Jennifer Mc Kiernan Political reporter Getty Images Conservative MP for New Forest West, Sir Desmond Swayne The Conservative MP Sir Desmond Swayne has won first place in the House of Commons' private members bill (PMB) ballot, giving him the best chance to create his own piece of legislation.
The PMB ballot is held at the start of every parliamentary session, where each backbench MP who enters is allocated a numbered white ball, and 20 balls are randomly pulled from a goldfish bowl.
What Sir Desmond Swayne will do is yet to be decided, but in 2024 he wrote of how he hoped "like hell" to be unsuccessful each time he entered the ballot.
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