Sentences with phrase «lord alli»

.@UKHouseofLords votes 245:218 in favour of Lord Alli's EEA amendments.

But peers are also expected to vote on one of three amendments tabled by the Labour peer Lord Alli saying that saying in the European Economic Area - ie, staying in the single market, like Norway - should be a negotiating objective for the government.

Lord Alli is winding up now.

Labour peer Lord Alli said the amendments were «a figleaf» to enable those opposed to the bill's purpose to fight it.

In March 2010, an amendment tabled by Lord Alli gained cross-party support to remove the ban on civil partnerships being held on religious premises.

That was despite the fact that they had been told to abstain on the amendment to the Government's flaship EU Withdrawal Bill, which was tabled by Labour peer Lord Alli.

Indeed, the amazing vote on Lord Alli's European Economic Area amendment, last week, demonstrates that it can be mobilised even when the Labour Whips don't throw their backing behind it.

But Tory peer Lord Forsyth said: «What [Lord Alli] is proposing is that we fly in the face of the biggest democratic vote in our history.»

Proposing the amendment, Labour peer Lord Alli said it was in line with official party policy and was what the majority of its members wanted.

He was attacking a proposal from the Labour peer Lord Alli which would have allowed those religious denominations who so wished to celebrate civil partnerships on their premises.

In the House of Lords peers have just started debating an amendment tabled by the Labour peer Lord Alli saying the UK should stay in the European economic area.

What [Lord Alli] is proposing is that we fly in the face of the biggest democratic vote in our history.

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[10] In the late 1980s, she became a friend of Waheed (now Lord) Alli, and persuaded him to join the Labour Party.