Sentences with phrase «mps rebelled against»

This is a very different situation from the fall of Margaret Thatcher when MPs rebelled against her in a bid to save their seats.

Theresa May was handed an effective «Brexit majority» of 36 after seven Labour MPs rebelled against Jeremy Corbyn — and many more abstained.

Theresa May was handed an effective «Brexit majority» of 36 after seven Labour MPs rebelled against...

- One in three new MPs rebelled against their leader just a couple of months into the parliament, lending credibility to the theory that Ed Miliband moved the party to the left.

And the prime minister lost another little bit of his authority, as Tory MPs rebelled against the coalition's plans to make it easier for middle - class people to build bigger extensions.

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Last night a Commons motion condemning the cuts was passed unanimously in the House with 20 MPs rebelling against their own party on the issue.

Monday night saw 91 Tory MPs rebel against the bill's second reading, meaning the government would have lost the vote had it not been for support from Labour.

Not exact matches

This, I would argue, is not a very difficult dilemma, particularly once leftie Labour MPs also start to rebel against spending cuts on this scale.

Despite this difference, the House of Commons contains a similar proportion of rebels as the Lords, despite the whips» ultimate sanction against MPs of losing their jobs if they don't toe the party line.

Nevertheless some Lib Dem MPs have vowed to rebel and vote against the government, including former leader Ming Campbell.

He told the Guardian: «There are quite a lot of Labour MPs who will take the view that if I'm going to rebel against the government, today is not the day to do it.»

But Mr Porter insisted the wider campaign against fees and particularly those Liberal Democrat MPs who fail to rebel against the government would continue unabated.

Naughty rebels of the week: The three Conservative MPs who voted with Labour against sale of forestry lands.

Tory MPs, rebelling in very large numbers, aren't so much rebelling aghainst Cameron but against the Coalition.

7.45 pm Update: We have our first real rebel estimate - the number of those Conservative MPs who voted against the programme motion.

Labour MPs, led by Ed Miliband, and Tory rebels voted down ministers» proposals to launch strikes against Syrian government targets after the Assad Regime used chemical weapons against his own people.

The eurosceptic party, which has 11 MEPs but no MPs in the Commons, is looking to capitalise after nearly half of David Cameron's backbenchers rebelled against his party on Europe.

And the MPs who have rebelled against Corbyn's leadership clearly represent a majority within the parliamentary party, whereas the MPs who were expelled and went on to form the National Labour Organisation in 1931 and those who left to form the SDP in 1981 were in the minority.

Corbyn, who has rebelled against his party more than 500 times in his career, said MPs would not be «corralled» by whips into voting the same way as the leadership under a more consensual style of management.

All you'll ever want to know about the MPs who rebelled against the party whip on the House of Lords reform bill

Of the 26 Labour MPs who rebelled against Lords reform, six of them defied the party whip on the EU referendum motion.

The comment suggests Clegg has reason to fear the bill will run into trouble as rebels prepare to join Labour in voting against the «programme motion» — the timetable motion limiting the amount of time MPs can spend debating the bill as it goes through its remaining stages in the Commons.

Some Tory MPs who had not previously been expected to rebel against the government seemed to express hesitation, or even anger, at the direction of travel.

Such new MPs will begin to rebel in time, as did most of the 1997 intake, but by the end of the 1997 parliament, after a full four years, only 28 % of the newly - elected Labour MPs had voted against their whips.

In remarks immediately seized on by Nigel Farage, the Ukip leader, the senior Tory said that the party's MPs have to rebel against the leadership because they face pressure from hardline associations.

Brady was among the 91 rebel Tory MPs who voted against the House of Lords reform bill.

Forty - eight Labour MPs, including leadership candidate Jeremy Corbyn and mayoral candidates Sadiq Khan, Diane Abbott and David Lammy, rebelled against their party whips.

According to the Sunday Telegraph rebel leaders say up to 100 Labour MPs are against the government's plans.

MPs backed the European Union Bill by 498 votes to 114 on Wednesday night, with 47 Labour rebels voting against.

Labour MPs who have rebelled against leader Jeremy Corbyn have been told that they are not welcome at the Durham Miners» Gala.

Rebel leader Helen Goodman has confirmed that 48 Labour MPs voted against sending the Government's Welfare Bill to a second reading.

In February, Labour MPs protested that a # 300m fund for local government was «a political bung» to prevent Tories rebelling against the local government settlement.

Jubilation among rebel Labour MPs on Tuesday evening at Angela Eagle dropping out to give Owen Smith a clear run against Corbyn was followed by what felt close to a wake on Wednesday night after news 184,000 registered supporters had paid # 25 each, a figure subsequently reduced to a still considerable 140,000 after duplications and the overtly hostile were stripped out, to buy a vote in the leadership race.

Meanwhile, Russell, who has previously threatened to vote against the Budget in its entirety, has dismissed an Independent on Sunday report that the rebels have secretly agreed to co-operate with Labour MPs as «poppycock» and «Labour mischief - making».

Government MPs are rebelling against their parties» policies on a scale not seen since 1945, new research for The Independent has revealed.

Norman, dubbed the Captain Sensible of the rebels, put these qualities to deadly effect on Tuesday night when he managed to organise 91 Tory MPs to vote against the second reading of the House of Lords reform bill.

The older voters rose up as one against VAT on domestic fuel, the Tories were trounced, and rebel Tory MPs helped to defeat the measure in a Commons vote in the wake of the by - election.