Sentences with phrase «brown need their votes»
Though they quarrel and compete with the Lib Dems, Blair and Brown need their votes not to collapse into the arms of David Cameron - «Come home to the Tories,» as he didn't say - if they are to save some of their own marginal seats next time.
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On a day when the Labour leader needed to be picking up votes, Gordon Brown was forced to issue a succession of apologies after a gaffe in which he referred to a Labour - supporting Rochdale voter as «bigoted».
A Brown victory would instantly deny Democratic Senate leader Harry Reid the 60 - vote super-majority he needs in order to prevent the Republican Senators from filibustering key votes on healthcare reform and the President's judicial nominees.
A second assault upon Brown's premiership was launched in September 2008 when Siobhain McDonagh — an MP who had never voted against the government [118]-- spoke of the need for discussion over Brown's position.
There has been much speculation that Paladino promoted Quinn and Pierce so he would have the needed votes in a future attempt to knock Brown out of her leadership role in the city school district.
«I have very serious concerns about the overall cost of the bill,» Brown told the chamber, «but my vote for cloture signals that I believe we need to keep the process moving.»