Sentences with phrase «line whip vote»

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

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A coerced whip - line vote that imposes a radical and philosophically incoherent agenda on a country not at all sure it wants to go down that road is «democratic,» whereas a free vote on whether the state can re-define a basic human institution at its whim is undemocratic?

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 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.

If he is not prepared to put his career on the line by only voting slavishly in line with the whip then there can not be any complaints about his lack of credibility when it comes to raising issues regarding his party's policy failures.

But he added: «Given the fact that the government insists on whipping its own MPs and the line - up we're familiar with I think it's expected the government are going to win the vote today, but it's definitely lost the argument.»

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.

A member of the Senate Democratic Leadership, Boxer served as the Democratic Chief Deputy Whip, which gives her the job of lining up votes on key legislation.

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.

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).

A free vote will leave them vulnerable to criticism from the grassroots because they won't be able to blame their vote on being whipped into line.

«I think some of Mike's decisions in choosing to become a whip, when he couldn't vote against the party line... people see as rather odd.»

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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:

While members of Congress often vote along party lines, the influence of the whip is weaker than in the UK system.

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.

«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.

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.

Asked whether that meant he was prepared to impose a three - line whip, he said: «It means that all Labour MPs will be asked to vote in that direction next week or whenever the vote comes up.»

Barrow and Furness MP Mr Woodcock pointed out that imposing a three - line whip to abstain would be forcing Labour MPs to vote against their own party policy, which is currently in favour of renewal.

Coalition MPs are under a three - line whip to attend the opposition day debate on a Labour - authored motion that falls short of opposing higher fees, but calls for the white paper on the future of universities to properly explain the plans before the Commons votes on the fee cap.

In the Commons debate on intervention against ISIS in Iraq held on 26 September 2014, Bacon again voted against his own party, [4] becoming one of only 6 Conservatives to defy the three - line whip imposed on Conservative MPs.

Labour MPs reacted with fury at the news, with John Mann accusing her of «cowardice» and «bottling» the vote after Jeremy Corbyn imposed a three - line whip to support triggering Article 50.