House of Commons

noun

1. the elective, lower house of the Parliament of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Canada, and various other countries in the Commonwealth of Nations.

House of Commons

noun

1. (in Britain, Canada, etc) the lower chamber of Parliament

House of Commons

1. The lower house of the parliament of Britain. It includes representatives from England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, all elected by the people. It is more powerful than the House of Lords, the upper house of parliament. The leader of the ruling party in the House of Commons is the prime minister of Britain; the prime minister chooses a cabinet composed mainly of members of the House of Commons. (Compare House of Lords.)

Example Sentences

Reeves will deliver her Budget in the House of Commons on 26 November, and Badenoch will give the immediate response for the opposition.

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Even though elements of Shabana Mahmood's package of asylum reforms had been pre-announced over the course of several days, there was something new and potentially controversial left over for Monday's House of Commons statement.

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Reeves will outline her Budget in the House of Commons on 26 November, which will include big decisions regarding spending on public services.

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"The Prime Minister's costly deficit gambles our future on the national credit card," Poilievre said in the House of Commons on Monday ahead of the vote.

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Speaking in the House of Commons, Mahmood said: "If we fail to deal with this crisis, we will draw more people down a path that starts with anger and ends in hatred."

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