The secret vote went 18 - 14 in the Opposition leader's
favour following hours of talks at the party's headquarters in central London.
Not exact matches
Following a 10 - and - a-half
hour debate, MPs voted by 397 to 223 in
favour of Britain joining the US - led coalition.
Yet over the
following three
hours, not one Labour backbencher was moved to deliver a speech in
favour of the BIll, as shadow Treasury spokesman David Gauke noted in his summing up: