Sentences with phrase «free votes in the house»

We will make free votes in the House of Commons standard practice.

But the death penalty is a matter of conscience, subject to a free vote in the House.

In response to the David Cameron's interview for BBC1's Countryfile programme, in which the Prime Minister says: «I always thought the hunting ban was a pretty bizarre piece of legislation, I think there should be a free vote in the House of Commons... My problem has always been that it was just taking the criminal law into an area of activity where it didn't really belong»; Alice Barnard, Chief Executive of the Countryside Alliance, said: «The Prime Minister is totally right to question the Hunting Act, especially from a legal basis.

However the Conservatives insisted that the furthest they could go was to consider offering a free vote in the House of Commons on a referendum on AV.

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Downing Street has ruled out such membership, preferring to be able to negotiate free trade deals with the rest of the world, but the majority of members in the upper house of the U.K.'s parliament, the House of Lords, have voted against that, forcing a debate on the ihouse of the U.K.'s parliament, the House of Lords, have voted against that, forcing a debate on the iHouse of Lords, have voted against that, forcing a debate on the issue.

The Democrat - led House voted Thursday to send President Obama a bill that would enable more poor children to receive free meals at school, raise the nutritional quality of cafeteria fare and reduce the junk food and sugary beverages sold in school vending machines.

That disappointment is nothing compared with the words which the Leader of the House uttered, but let me say this to those outside and to everyone in this House; the Leader of the House and the noble Baroness, Lady Thornton, have been supporters of these rights throughout their time in office and on the Back Benches, they have worked incredibly hard to secure us our free vote, and I thank them wholeheartedly for their continued support, whatever small print they were forced to read out.

In theory it's a House of Commons matter, which means that MPs should have a free vote, but of course the Green affair has become highly political.

For the sake of public trust in British democracy, will the Minister who is standing in for the Deputy Prime Minister therefore agree that any legislation put before the House on this vital issue should be the subject of a free vote?»

District 1 votes at the American Legion Hall on Mountain Road, District Two polls at the Olive Free Library in West Shokan, District 3 votes at the Samsonville United Methodist Church, District 4 votes at the Olivebridge Fire hall, and District 5 polls at the Boiceville Fire House on Route 28.

[32] On 29 November 2005 the House of Commons voted 136 - 128 (on a free vote) against a Private Member's Bill for a reduction in the voting age to 16 proposed by Liberal Democrat MP Stephen Williams.

I don't think it works, I think it wastes a huge amount of police time and I think we should have a free vote in a new House of Commons.»

Tony Blair, who expressed unease in early 2005 about a «hybrid» house with elected and appointed members, pledged in the Labour manifesto for that year's general election to remove the remaining hereditary peers and to «allow a free vote on the composition of the house».

Additionally, when he was in the House, he voted in favor of tying interest rates to the free market.