Sentences with phrase «motion limiting the amount of time»

The comment suggests Clegg has reason to fear the bill will run into trouble as rebels prepare to join Labour in voting against the «programme motion» — the timetable motion limiting the amount of time MPs can spend debating the bill as it goes through its remaining stages in the Commons.

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Unlike the government, individual MPs aren't able to pass guillotine motions which limit the amount of time each amendment gets debated for.

Lib Dems are likely to blame Labour for part of the failure, pointing out that Ed Miliband would not commit his party to a programme motion for the committee stages of the bill — a means of limiting the amount of time the bill would have spent being discussed on the floor of the Commons.