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> She was killed outside a library in Birstall, West Yorkshire, where she was due to hold a constituency surgery. What is constituency surgery...?
by arthurcolle 5y ago
> She was killed outside a library in Birstall, West Yorkshire, where she was due to hold a constituency surgery.
What is constituency surgery...?
- _-david-_ 5y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surgery_(politics) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surgery_(politics)
- colinb 5y agoA scheduled meeting with constituents i.e people from the district the MP represents.
- dandotway 5y agoIn British English, a physician's or dentist's office is called a surgery. Thus, for Britons, going to the surgery just means visiting the doc; it does not have the same connotations of going under a knife that it has for Americans.
- selfhoster11 5y agoThis is not related to the medial meaning of the term. In this case, it's closer to "office hours", a specific time when constituents can come and ask questions.