Sentences with phrase «half line whip»

I am not a pretty caster and my ability to double - haul, thus increasing line speed, is imperfect; when you flunk a double haul the line whips and cracks, then collapses around your head and you are frustrated and sad as only a flycaster can be, glad only that no one was watching.

He says he last voted against his party on a three - line whip in the 1970s - and when he did so, two years later Margaret Thatcher appointed him to her government.

With Ms Jowell's concession and a three line whip, the Commons approved the government's plans by 274 votes to 250.

The Labour leader was forced into his latest reshuffle after four front benchers — Lewis, Rachael Maskell, Dawn Butler and Tulip Siddiq — all resigned over his three line whip on the Brexit bill.

The three - line whip over February's Article 50 vote - which Corbyn hadn't even applied when opposing the bombing of Syria - represented a particular low point.

Labour MPs were to be pressured to vote for this measure by use of a three line whip.

On 1 February this year, the Commons voted by 498 to 114 to give Theresa May the power to trigger Article 50, after both Tories and Labour alike had issued a three - line whip.

I book a photographer for half an hour before I know there's a three - line whip vote, so that they're all there.

The government then suffered its biggest Tory rebellion to date, in which one ministerial aide was sacked and one resigned as they joined colleagues to defy a three - line whip to vote against the second reading of the Lords reform bill.

Equally, if the majority of the shadow cabinet sought to defy Corbyn by enforcing a three - line whip to make MPs vote for intervention in Syria, public ridicule would ensue.

Rebel sources said that an angry prime minister confronted Jesse Norman just outside the House of Commons division lobbies as it became clear that scores of Tory MPs would defy a three line whip.

It is difficult to imagine on what constitutional authority Corbyn could impose a three - line whip to make his MPs vote against intervention in Syria (though reports initially suggested this is what he had in mind).

Why are we imposing a three - line whip on a non-binding informative motion?»

Then Corbyn considered imposing a three line whip, realised that if he did all hell would break loose, granted a free vote but asserted his position by consulting party members and claiming their response showed they backed his position.

Clive Lewis was among 52 Labour MPs who defied the party's three line whip at the Brexit bill's third reading in the Commons.

Corbyn's position has been described by some as a «two and a half line whip».

He is particularly angry at the three line whip on the programme motion of the bill.

Meanwhile, the party leadership is still keeping quiet on what disciplinary action — if any — those 13 frontbenchers who rebelled against the three - line whip at second reading will face.

Some 15 members of the shadow ministerial team rebelled, including the farcical situation of three of the whips» office - Jeff Smith, Vicky Foxcroft and Thangam Debonnaire - voting against their own three - line whip.

The indications coming out of John McDonnell and Jeremy Corbyn yesterday were that the shadow ministers would be able to keep their jobs, with McDonnell suggesting that defiance of a three - line whip only mandated the resignation of a Shadow Cabinet member and Corbyn stressing that he is «very lenient».

All 77 Ministers and Whips were instructed to abstain, but all other Conservative MPs had a free vote on a one - line whip.

Siddiq said she had made the final decision to resign after Corbyn confirmed to the shadow cabinet on Thursday morning that Labour MPs would be expected to back the article 50 bill and a three - line whip would be imposed.

MP for Hampstead and Kilburn, where 75 % voted to remain in the EU, quits as shadow minister over Corbyn three - line whip

Corbyn told Sky News on Thursday the bill was «clearly a three - line whip», but acknowledged it would be difficult for some MPs.

Shadow minister Tulip Siddiq has resigned from the Labour frontbench, telling the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, that she could not reconcile herself to the party's three - line whip to vote for triggering article 50.

The Tories are under a three - line whip to block the call for all Government papers surrounding the issue - including case studies - to be handed to the Home Affairs Select Committee.

At PMQs today, David Cameron was asked about the decision by all Liberal Democrat MPs to collectively defy a three - line whip, and abstain from voting on a motion defending Cameron's EU treay veto.

Even loyal Corbyn supporter Clive Lewis resigned over Corbyn's three line whip on the recent EU vote.

Here is the full list of MPs who voted against the Article 50 bill at first reading in the Commons, including the shadow ministers who defied Labour's three - line whip.

Three shadow cabinet members and one front bencher resigned after imposed a three - line whip on Labour MPs to back triggering Article 50.

But Cardinal Keith O'Brien, Scotland's leading Catholic, is to attack the legislation in his Easter Sunday sermon as well as criticising the prime minister for imposing a three - line whip on Labour MPS, rather than allowing a free vote.

Corbyn hinted strongly last week that he would apply a three - line whip, which would usually mean dissenting frontbenchers would lose their jobs.

A fifth of Labour MPs defied Jeremy Corbyn's three - line whip to vote against legislation granting Theresa May the power to trigger the UK's exit from the European Union.

Corbyn imposed a three - line whip to support the Brexit bill, but 52 of Labour's 229 MPs defied that whip in the notification of withdrawal division.

The Exeter MP added he was «disappointed and saddened» his party had imposed a three - line whip, given the lack of time available to debate the bill.

Former culture secretary Ben Bradshaw said he would go against a three - line whip on a bill for the first time in nearly 20 years as an MP.

Mr Corbyn suffered a major rebellion in Wednesday night's Commons vote on the Government's Article 50 bill, with 47 of his MPs - including 15 shadow ministers - defying his three - line whip to back the legislation.

Jeremy Corbyn had imposed a three - line whip on Labour MPs to vote in favour of the Government's bill at second reading.

They joined fellow frontbenchers Jo Stevens and Tulip Siddiq, who both resigned after Mr Corbyn announced he was imposing a three - line whip on the vote.

Three Shadow Cabinet members also stood down ahead of the vote so they could defy the party's three - line whip.

In a direct attack on the Labour leader's decision to impose a three - line whip ordering his MPs to vote with the Government, Mr Coyle added:

As I have already argued, there is no soft Brexit and to accept the Tory agenda as Corbyn did by putting a three line whip on Article 50 was folly.

They weren't even offering a firm commitment to pull a three line whip on their existing manifesto commitment for a referendum on AV.

Read a full list of MPs who voted against the Article 50 bill, including the shadow ministers who defied Labour's three - line whip.

In July 2012 91 Conservative MPs voted against Lords reform, defying a three - line whip and kiboshing Nick Clegg's dream of reform to the upper chamber.

It comes amid a row over the three - line whip imposed by Jeremy Corbyn for Labour MPs to back the bill at its second reading — with one frontbencher quitting and others vowing to rebel.

Following a meeting of the Shadow Cabinet, Mr Corbyn confirmed he would place a three - line whip on his MPs to back triggering Article 50.

«On the announcement of the three line whip on the Article 50 vote, I therefore feel I have no choice but to resign from my front bench role as Shadow Minister for Early Years,» she said.

By imposing a three - line whip Mr Corbyn risks members of his top resigning or being forced to expel them from the front bench.

Jeremy Corbyn has risked a wave of frontbench resignations by imposing a three - line whip on Labour MPs to vote in favour of triggering Article 50.