If it reaches a second reading by early April, when an election would be called, it could go into the "wash up" – the process at the end of a parliament when bills that have not been passed are hurried through.
Make sure both pairs of socks go into the wash together so they come out together again.
Timms acknowledged that it was "likely" that the bill will go into the "wash-up".
Any bill still in process that does not go into the "wash-up" will not become law.
My mother remembers feeling gutted once, when I was very young, and I asked if I could go into the washing machine so I could be less brown.
It is expected that the bill will receive a second reading on or before 6 April, in time to go into the "wash-up" if the election is called, as expected, for 6 May.
The cloths are scraped of residues, which are composted for the school's rooftop garden, and then the cloths go into the washing machine to be laundered for reseeding.
But it looks increasingly likely that it will go into the "wash-up" – in which bills are nodded through in hours by agreement between party whips if they have had a second reading.
Only the nonperiod Marks and Spencer slips the actresses wear under their gowns — "not at all authentic but they give a nice long line," Buxton says — go into the washing machine.
The timing is precise: by getting its second reading in the Commons, the bill becomes eligible to go into the "wash-up" – the dirty process by which bills that have run out of proper parliamentary time are hurried through to royal assent via a series of backroom deals.
