Sentences with phrase «not vote against the government»

Burnham spoke out today after Harman suggested at the weekend that Labour will not vote against the government's welfare bill.

Harriet Harman has provoked a furious backlash among Labour members by suggesting that the party will not vote against the government's welfare bill.

But the Tory MP Robert Halfon, who has led the campaign against increasing fuel duty, said he would not vote against the government until he saw whether the chancellor, George Osborne, responded to the mounting concerns in his autumn statement, due on 5 December.

Not exact matches

Either it means that other members of his party — the finance minister, who is against the referendum — will come in and not hold a referendum at all, and try to keep Greece on the austerity plan, or there will be a fall in the government, a no - confidence vote, and people will presumably vote for the Conservative Party, which is very much like the Republican Party in the United States.

When I claim that label, I'm connecting not only with a number of active feminists who are working today to help women, but with an ongoing history of feminists who got women the vote, who made birth control happen, who got women into positions of power in the government, who worked to rectify racial inequality and fight against things like mandatory sterilization of welfare recipients.

If your plan for when you stand before the Father is to argue that you didn't think He expected us to tend the sick together as government of the people — that your vote was against it even though you knew brothers & sisters would suffer for it... well, good luck with that one.

We limited those coercive powers, I'm happy to say — not with any help from the government, because the government voted against the amendment to limit the coercive powers, which was ostensibly the intended purpose of the bill.

A bevy of right - wingers such as the glamorous Priti Patel and the rebellious David Nuttall have blindsided the PM several times at PMQs and aren't afraid to vote against the government.

In an open ballot, however, members of the government majority that had launched the constitutional reform process could not permit themselves to vote against the result of the referendum.

Writing for The Guardian, Smith added: «In those circumstances, I do not feel I would have any choice but to vote against the government and, if needs be, the Labour whip.

The vote does not authorise action in Syria but allows the UK to participate in air strikes against Isis in Iraq, where the government has requested British help.

Will they be sacked, now they haven't actually not technically yet voted against the government?

His point being that UKIP is not just a transient «protest vote» against the current government, despite typically forthright probing and suggestions to the contrary from John Humphreys.

Ms Leadsom is said to have once sworn at new boss Mr Osborne when he tried to persuade her not to vote against the Government over Europe in the early days of the Coalition - a claim that she denied at the time.

There's a certain irony to the fact that some of the thirty or so Labour MPs prepared to vote against the government won't do so simply because Labour is so unpopular.

Local Government and Rural Development Minister, Alhaji Collins Dauda has advised Muslims in the country to vote against the NPP and its presidential candidate if they do not want to suffer discrimination.

Under the Salisbury Convention, the Lords should not wreck or vote against government manifesto commitments at second and third reading.

The problem is not so much that a number of Conservatives voted against the government - in fact, rebel Tory votes tipped the balance only once, in the unusual circumstances of the multiple rebellion on the European Economic Area amendment - or even that rather more Conservative peers didn't vote at all, because the government whips managed to bring in more than usual.

Helen Jones was not a Blairite and under his government was known to vote against some legislation.

Whether you think the Labour leader's last - minute gauntlet yesterday at «tea - time» - as many commentators have so quaintly described Miliband's 11th hour (ie 5.15 pm) threat to vote against the government's initial motion to intervene in Syria - was politicking or boldness in the national interest, it may not necessarily be the reason behind the suddenly watered - down vote.

Shadow business secretary Clive Lewis has also warned that he may vote against the bill if the government doesn't accept Labour's amendments.

The Coalition government's proposed reforms to tuition fees announced in November 2010 provoked huge controversy, not least because many Liberal Democrats, including Nick Clegg, Vince Cable and Sir Menzies Campbell, had signed the NUS «Vote for Students» pledge «to vote against any increase in fees in the next Parliament and to pressure the government to introduce a fairer alternative&raqVote for Students» pledge «to vote against any increase in fees in the next Parliament and to pressure the government to introduce a fairer alternative&raqvote against any increase in fees in the next Parliament and to pressure the government to introduce a fairer alternative».

They are::: The revelation in November 2007 that Home Secretary Jacqui Smith was aware the Security Industry Authority had granted licences to 5,000 illegal workers but did not think the Home Office's official explanation was «good enough» for the press office or ministers to use;:: The fact that an illegal immigrant had been employed as a cleaner in the House of Commons, which emerged in February this year;:: A whips» list of potential Labour rebels who might vote against the Government over plans to increase the pre-charge terror detention limit to 42 days in a crucial Commons vote;:: A letter from Ms Smith to Prime Minister Gordon Brown warning that the recession could lead to a rise in violent crime and burglaries.

I'm not against fixing Obama care but John Faso voted on this before the studies on the implications of it were in Defunding Planned Parenthood and raising premiums for those with pre existing conditions are unacceptable What about the hard working poor who can't afford property and rely on help from the government

George Young will be pleased that it isn't a student finance question from David Davis, who's said that he'll be voting against the Government today.

A small detail that's escaped the attention of many is that both these parties have agreed that their government can't fall on a vote of confidence unless 55 % of MPs vote against them.

And we also voted against raising tuition fees, having failed to persuade a Labour government not to renege on its promise.

She's not a typical New Labour career politician as some have claimed but has campaigned for affordable housing and voted against Trident and the erosion of civil liberties under the last Labour government.

Mr Howarth said: «We can not go on with a political system under which unpopular governments are elected by a little more than a third of those voting and who push through policies that two - thirds of those voting have just voted against.»

The 70 Tory rebels who have signed Monday's letter say they are going to vote against this, and Labour has said it will join them (because it says the government is not allowing enough time for the bill to be debated in the Commons).

We don't want to vote against the government.

Monday night saw 91 Tory MPs rebel against the bill's second reading, meaning the government would have lost the vote had it not been for support from Labour.

If it were politics, our government wouldn't even allow parents the choice to move to other districts «for the great schools» if it went against majority vote.

After voting against the 2015 budget, Rep. Barton said, «This bill does not address in, any substantial way, runaway government spending.

The Government of Canada did not vote for or against Joe's consumer proposal.

(8) the points made in the conclusion are: (1) consistent with avoiding expenditures on the criminal justice system, the federal attorney general appeared to be neglecting the plight of pre-trial inmates in custody in extremely bad jail conditions, and the provincial attorney general appeared to ignore the needs of prosecutors for greater resources of staff and time in order to work adequately; (2) similarly, the other examples presented also support the proposition that the criminal justice system is inadequately resourced because there are «no votes in justice»; and, (3) the reduction in the safeguards against wrongful convictions caused by the radical changes in procedures made necessary because governments do not provide adequate resources for the criminal justice system;

GOP state Rep. Ross McGregor (one of the seven GOP Representatives who voted against the budget) denounced the budget for creating new abortion restrictions saying, «This is an area where government doesn't need to be inserting itself.»

I can't help but think the government has led the two opposition parties into an election trap, and the NDP and the Liberals sniffed the air and decided against the right thing to do in favour of doing what will win votes in 2015.