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Abstract: Legislators operate in different spaces within a legislative estate. The public and scholarly focus is on behaviour in formal space—the chamber and committee rooms, where formal decisions are taken—but the utilisation of informal and party (and now virtual) space can and does have conse- quences for legislative outcomes as well as the future of political leaders. This article addresses behaviour in party space and its consequences. Drawing on anthropological and archival research, it utilises a case study, identifying the consequences of the Conservative 1922 Committee in the British House of Commons. The body, constituting Conservative private members, has a dis- tinctive history, but its consequences, or functions, inherent or developed over time, provide a framework for comparative analysis and emphasise the impor- tance of exploring how legislators use space beyond that of the formal arena of the chamber and committee rooms.
Keywords: British Parliament, formal space, informal space, legislatures, MPs, 1922 Committee, parliamentary parties, party groups, party space
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