Many Conservative Party
back benchers voted in favour at 2nd Reading in Parliament, as did Green Party Leader, Elizabeth May.
Not exact matches
Had the leader's office wished to influence the outcome it would have been sufficient to persuade a reasonable number of front -
benchers to
vote only for John Healey (the one candidate who could be relied upon to
back Ed Miliband in any issue where he needed it) to guarantee his election and a fairly small number to
back Steve Rotherham who may have been seen as preferable to Dennis Skinner, in order to ensure that he came second.
Wouldn't gave supported bombing myself, but if it was a free
vote, then they weren't rebels, When Tony Blair had a free
vote on changing abortion, and was leader of the opposition and he was against the Tory law in 1995 ′ were those labour
back benchers who
voted in a free
vote, rebels?
Still great, but we need to trim this
back a little further to account for people who saw these tweets and are not eligible to
vote in the LSUC
Bencher election.