House of Commons

American  

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.

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House of Commons British  

noun

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

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House of Commons Cultural  

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.)

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In the UK, prime ministers are not directly elected, unlike US or French presidents - they are the leaders of the party with the most MPs in the House of Commons.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

Helen Grant, who replaced Widdecombe as MP for Maidstone and the Weald in the 2010 general election, has written to the Speaker of the House of Commons for his support.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

The party's comfortable majority in the 650-seat House of Commons means he will automatically become the next prime minister.

From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026

In parliament, he represented a constituency now known as Dauphin-Swan River-Neepawa from 1997 until 2010, when he resigned from the House of Commons.

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026

In 1807 a bill to ban all English involvement in slave trading passed the House of Commons, then the House of Lords.

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson