Private Members’ Bills

Question 1

Why did lab pass so many reforms

Answer 1

-didn’t set out with liberalising agenda + lab leaders Wilson + brown very conservative in moral issues + many working class lab MPs suspicious of change
-lab favoured ‘expert witnesses’ + technical + rational approach to alterations in law

Question 2

What were Private Members’ Bills

Answer 2

-the provision for backbench MPs propose legislation
-1960s saw backbenchers bring forwards many reforms that were successful
-success due to Jenkins as Home Secretary being sympathetic + enables parliamentary time to pass them