Sentences with phrase «after voting against the government»

Malcolm Chisholm quit his role as communities minister in the Scottish parliament last night after voting against the government.

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A particularly stressful week for farmers has come to a relieving end with the Greens today supporting the federal government's proposed 15 per cent backpacker tax after voting against it yesterday.

After his blistering «Alice in Wonderland» onslaught» during the second reading debate, the Tories» Brexit rebel - in - chief joined the revolt in the committee stage on EU nationals living in the UK and fairly consistently voted against the Government throughout the committee stage.

The former Labour leader has announced he will vote against the government's motion after listening to this afternoon's ongoing debate in the House of Commons.

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.

After joining the coalition poll ratings for the party fell, [67] particularly following the government's support for raising the cap on tuition fees with Liberal Democrat MPs voting 27 for, 21 against and 8 abstaining.

The Welsh assembly government is to hold a public inquiry into the country's ambulance service after the health minister accidentally voted against his own policy.

The returning officer for Sabon Gari local government, Dr Micah Victor announced Mohammed Ibrahim Usman of the APC as winner after scoring 20, 576 votes against PDP's Suleiman Ibrahim Gambo with 9,580 votes.

The government originally wanted increase the time terror suspects can be held without charge from 14 days to 90, but this was reduced to 28 after 49 Labour MPs and opposition parties voted against it, giving Tony Blair his first Commons defeat.

Burnham spoke out today after Harman suggested at the weekend that Labour will not vote against the government's welfare bill.

Amidu was also an ardent critic of the NDC government, and he boldly asked Ghanaians to vote against them in the last election after he described them as corrupt.

The Conservatives voted against the bill after shadow home secretary David Davis criticised it as a step towards more centralised government control.

After some months of passive support for MacDonald, the Liberals joined the Tories in voting against the government in October, precipitating the third general election within two years.

After a second day of impassioned debate in the House of Commons, a total of 498 MPs voted to give a second reading to the short bill granting the government the power to invoke article 50, while 114 voted against.

However, the amendment was defeated by 311 - 76 after Labour MPs were whipped to vote with the Government against it.

In Finchley and Golders Green, long - time Liberal Democrat supporter Lee Glover said he had turned against the party to vote for UKIP, after the Lib Dems joined the Tories in government.

The gay marriage bill has been saved after Ed Miliband agreed at the last minute to vote against an amendment to extend civil partnerships to heterosexual couples that had prompted government warnings that it would derail the entire measure.

The Foreign Secretary William Hague has said there should be no «regrets or recrimination» after the government lost a vote on military action against Syria.

The current crisis actually has its roots in a row as far back as 1989 when members Kerstin Ekman and Lars Gyllensten left their chairs after a majority of the academy voted against a proposition to submit an appeal to the Swedish government to engage against the fatwa issued by Iran against Salman Rushdie for his controversial novel The Satanic Verses.

After voting against the 2015 budget, Rep. Barton said, «This bill does not address in, any substantial way, runaway government spending.