Sentences with phrase «mps about defecting»
UKIP leader Nigel Farage appeared to admit he had been talking to Conservative MPs about defecting to his party, but he declined to give any names when asked by Andrew Neil.
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It backfired when Labour MPs (some of them about to defect to the breakaway SDP) narrowly elected Michael Foot instead.
This doesn't mean anyone is about to revive the Lib - Lab pact any time soon (and Clarke said he was confident that the current turmoil in the Labour party would not lead to any Labour MPs defecting to the Lib Dems, in the way Brian Sedgemore did).