Sentences with phrase «crucial vote in parliament»

The government has won a crucial vote in Parliament on plans to limit annual increases in working - age benefits to 1 % for the next three years.

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The prime minister faces a crucial confidence vote in Parliament at midnight Friday, after two days of acrimony that saw many of his own lawmakers and ministers rebel.

I don't put much store in opinion polls, but if true it would only indicate roughly what you would expect to happen at this point in the parliament - 32 % isn't that much lower than Labour got in the 2005 General Election and all it would suggest is that the Liberal Democrats are having a reversal - tactical voting could see them holding onto many of their current seats, indeed it is even possible that if they got 17 % of the vote that if it focused in an area that they could actually end up with more seats, where the switches in support are occuring is crucial - if they are focused then if the Conservative Party were to get 39 % then it might still result in them getting fewer seats than Labour or in extremis winning a 150 seat majority or so?

Every crucial socio - economic move was put before Parliament and they were invariably carried by a majority in Parliament, including the votes of non-CPP MPs.

The majority in Parliament on Tuesday lost a crucial vote that sought approval for Government to issue another Eurobond.

They have vital votes that could make the difference in crucial votes over the next few years of this new Scottish Parliament.

This is a small improvement on our current system of first past the post, since it allows voters to rank candidates and reduces the need to vote tactically, but it does not address the crucial unfairness at the heart of our democracy which is that a party's share of seats in parliament does reflect the number of votes it receives across the country - a situation which leads to millions of wasted votes and a shameful system of «safe seats» where a donkey could be elected so long as they were wearing the right coloured rosette.

These efforts were successful, with MEPs voting to unpick crucial elements of a «compromise» package agreed by the Parliament's environment committee (ENVI) in December 2016.