'Wash up Friday': What is it? What happens? - Last day of Parliament
MPs say their goodbyes, Bills are scrapped and quickly passed. It's the last day of parliament.
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00:00 Today is Wash-up Friday and it's now to do with this rainy weather. It's about the fact that
00:06 there's going to be a general election on July the 4th so today is the last day for bills to be
00:12 quickly passed. MPs who have been long-standing members of parliament for many years such as
00:19 Harriet Harman for 40 years say their goodbyes and also bills will be scrapped that they don't
00:26 have time to follow through such as the anti-smoking bill and other ones like that.
00:31 So we will find out more today about maybe compensation schemes when it comes to those
00:37 impacted by the infected blood scandal as well as of course the horizon scandal which has been
00:44 prominent in the news.