Sentences with phrase «back benchers voted»

Many Conservative Party back benchers voted in favour at 2nd Reading in Parliament, as did Green Party Leader, Elizabeth May.

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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.
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