Sentences with phrase «raab amendment»

After his own government caved in & abstained - Cameron only defeats Raab amendment because Labour and LibDems opposed it

Labour denounce govt plans to abstain on Raab amendment to Immig Bill.

The fact Cameron did not feel he had the authority to make his ministers to oppose the Dominic Raab amendment highlighted how volatile and rebellious the Conservative party continues to be, even under the supposedly iron hand of election strategist Lynton Crosby.

Robert Buckland, a Conservative, says that the Raab amendment is unnecessary and that it could make deportations harder.

Extraordinary mess of a position on the Raab amendment - Government's view is now a Schrodinger's cat, both supportive and not

• Labour has refused to say how it will vote on the Raab amendment.

Lib Dem MPs are planning to vote against but, if Labour abstain, the Raab amendment is likely to be passed.

I gather the Speaker has placed the Raab amendment on immigration in the first group of amendments, so there will be a vote.

Raab amendment to immigration bill is defeated despite 97 MPs, many of them Conservative backbenchers, voting in favour

Labour's decision means that the Raab amendment, which the government believes to be unlawful and unworkable, now faces defeat when MPs vote at 4 pm.

According to reports, Tory ministers will abstain on the Dominic Raab amendment that ministers have been dismissing as unworkable.

No 10 say there are «workability» issues with the Raab amendment.

Cameron and Tory payroll abstaining on Raab amendment as sympathetic to its aims but think that it doesn't work legally

Downing Street's approach to Raab amendment seems to be to close eyes, stick fingers in ears and hope that it goes away...

But there were divisions among rebels as supporters of the Raab amendment on the deportation of foreign criminals called on colleagues to give it a greater chance by abandoning the Romanian and Bulgarian amendment.

Not exact matches

In an extraordinary move, Conservative members of the government were told to abstain on an amendment by Dominic Raab attempting to remove the right of foreign criminals facing deportation to make an appeal based on their right to a family life.

He says he is listed on the order paper as a supporter of Dominic Raab's amendment.

From Dominic Raab, the Conservative MP who has tabled the amendment limited the ability of foreign prisoners to use the right to a family life to avoid deportation

Ministers are set for a showdown with Tory rebels over the immigration bill after it was confirmed a crucial amendment backed by restive backbenchers will be debated in the Commons.The amendment, supported by dozens of Tory MPs, would give ministers rather than judges the final say over whether deportation would breach the human rights of foreign criminals.Commons Speaker John Bercow selected the amendment tabled by Esher and Walton MP Dominic Raab in the first group for debate, meaning there will be time for a vote.

The leader of the immigration revolt — on an amendment, remember, which even the home secretary Theresa May had said was illegal under the Human Rights Act and the European Convention on Human Rights — was Dominic Raab, a bright international lawyer who knew exactly what he was doing, and was one of the stars of the 2010 intake.

Keith Vaz, the Labour chair of the home affairs committee, says he will be voting for Dominic Raab's amendment.

Dominic Raab's amendment to the Immigration Bill has been selected by Speaker and will be voted on

Raab raised concerns that the government was attempting to swamp his «commonsense» proposal by tabling a slew of its own amendments to the bill.

In a highly unusual development, Labour, the official opposition, joined forces with one arm of the coalition, the Lib Dems, to vote down a proposal (Dominic Raab's amendment) that was branded illegal and unworkable by the dominant Conservative arm of the coalition.

But she is claer that the advice is that Raab's amendment is incompatible with the ECHR.

• Labour has announced that it will vote against Dominic Raab's amendment.

She still has not addressed the issues raised either by Dominic Raab's amendment, or Nigel Mills» one.

Hard to believe govt will find new formulation for Lords amendment to satisfy Raab + co..

(Raab's amendment would stop people using article eight to avoid deportation except where deportation would cause «manifest and overwhelming harm» to children.)

The home secretary has told the House that she disagreed with [Raab's] amendment.

Mr Raab has put a particular amendment down that would make some changes to this particular Bill.

Just minutes before the vote was due, justice minister Dominic Raab said the government would table its own amendment later during the bill's passage through the parliament to put into law the idea of a meaningful vote on the final deal.

Dominic Raab, the justice minister, is a robust defender of our ancestral liberties: he just doesn't see the need to restore the freedom to hunt foxes with hounds — which is what the amendment would do in practice.

Raab's amendment demanded that judges be given the final say over whether deportation violates foreign criminal's right to family life.

The amendment tabled by the rebel Tory backbencher Dominc Raab was defeated 241 to 97 votes after Labour and the Liberal Democrats voted against the measure.

Ms Cooper, who said she sympathised with the amendment, said ministers «sat on their hands» instead of voting against Mr Raab's amendment because they were worried about their backbenchers.

An amendment to the Immigration Bill tabled by Tory backbencher Dominic Raab would prevent foreign nationals dodging deportation after serving a jail sentence by claiming that it would breach their right to a family life

The amendment, crafted by Dominic Raab, a Eurosceptic Tory rising star, sought to make it easier to deport foreign criminals who claim a right to a family life as protection under the European Convention on Human Rights.

Mr Raab's amendment, which has the backing of more than 100 MPs, was given time by the Speaker this morning.

But Home Office sources say the Immigration Bill already deals with this matter - and Mr Raab's amendment may have the unintended result of dragging the UK before the European Court of Human Rights more often.

Meanwhile, Justice minister Dominic Raab has confirmed that the government will table an amendment before report stage requiring ministers presenting any Brexit - related primary or secondary legislation to first make a statement on whether and how it is consistent with the Equalities Act.