Sentences with phrase «leader votes against amendment»
Labour leader votes against amendment extending civil partnerships to heterosexual couples after appeal by Tory whips
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Several Labour MPs - including leadership candidate Jeremy Corbyn and former minister Diane Abbott - voted against the bill, despite the party's official stance being to abstain after an amendment tabled by acting Labour leader Harriet Harman was defeated.
The Liberal Democrat leader, Tim Farron, said this demand was «beyond parody», given that Labour peers recently voted against an amendment to the article 50 bill in the House of Lords that would have required the government to keep the UK in the single market.