Sentences with phrase «opposition day debates»

Labour have two opposition day debates, both with a distinct pre-local election feel.

Labour is using one of its allotted opposition day debates in the Commons to force the vote, which is non-binding, for a three - month freeze in the face of rising household bills and transport fares as wages remain stagnant.

There's an Opposition Day debate in the Commons What do you do?

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The development comes as the Lords debate the remaining stages of the bill and Labour holds an opposition day debate in the Commons in a last - ditch attempt to prevent the health and social care bill becoming law.

The Prime Minister has called the blacklisting of workers by large construction firms «completely unacceptable» ahead of a Labour Opposition Day debate on the issue.

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But Labour pressed the issue with its opposition day debate.

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He will use an opposition day debate in October to vote on a referendum, vowing to «push the government all the way.

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Then came the opposition day debate in the Commons.

With an opposition day debate scheduled for the Commons this afternoon, Mr Brown decided to reject the Army's proposed cuts after all.

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He told the prime minister to come join Labour's opposition day debate on tax credits next week.

It is the first significant Commons defeat of Brown's premiership and Labour's first defeat on an opposition day debate since 1997.

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There was an Opposition Day Debate on the Royal Mail in the House of Commons yesterday.

Shadow Secretary of State for Health Andrew Lansley sets out his position on GPs in this opposition day debate:

Of the 86 Labour MPs that backed the original early day motion criticising the # 100 million cuts 63 voted against the Tory motion, brought during an opposition day debate.

John Redwood, a leading Eurosceptic, expressed hope that Labour's motion «would not be opposed», though the opposition day debate and vote is non-binding and has no effect on government policy

Following exchanges over the issue at PMQs earlier, a vote has just taken place during an Opposition Day debate initiated by the Liberal Democrats in which the Government was defeated on settlement rights for Gurkhas.

The Conservatives have decided to give over their Opposition Day debate in the Commons next Wednesday to discussion of the expansion of Heathrow airport.

He suggested extending the parliamentary sitting for an extra day to accommodate the debate and said he would look into whether it was possible to allot an opposition day debate to ensure the proposal gets a second reading.

Theresa Villiers MP is Shadow Secretary of State for Transport and will lead today's Opposition day debate on the very issue of the third runway at Heathrow.

The change of heart by the coalition - confirmed by Home Secretary Theresa May in a Commons statement ahead of an opposition day debate on the issue - was broadly welcomed by MPs on all sides of the House.

The welfare reform - which the government refers to as the «spare room subsidy» - is the subject of an Opposition Day debate in the House of Commons.

Shadow Business Secretary Chuka Umunna condemned blacklisting as a «secret, insidious, shameful practice» as he opened Labour's Opposition Day debate.

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.

The government recently lost a vote over the Gurkhas on an opposition day debate and, unless Brown offers further concessions, this seems likely to happen again.

An expected Conservative plan to table the issue as an opposition day debate failed to materialise.

In his opening speech in the opposition day debate, which was peppered with angry heckles from the Labour benches, Salmond said Blair should be held to account for what was «very much a personal campaign, unbeknownst to cabinet and indeed to parliament», citing the memo sent to the then US president, George W Bush, from the prime minister saying: «I will be with you whatever.»

This was an Opposition Day debate on the government's White Paper, but some of the most pointed criticism came from the Conservative benches.

During an opposition day debate, it was the Tories who made the most effective arguments against the plan.

The shadow education secretary, Lucy Powell, who requested the research and is leading an opposition day debate on Wednesday, said there would be heavy cuts to the number of teaching assistances, extra-curricular activities, subsidies for school trips and one - to - one tuition.

Not exact matches

Instead of running ads, they would define Scheer more slowly, over time, with a series of forced choices in Parliament, through government motions, much as opposition parties usually seek to define governments (you'll note that «define» in Ottawa politics is almost always pejorative by implication) through clever use of their occasional opportunity to define a day's parliamentary debate through so - called «supply motions.»

Opposition leader missing on emergency vote The first day of session saw the NDP call for an emergency debate on emergency room waiting times which failed after Liberal leader David Swann and Lethbridge - East MLA Bridget Pastoor went AWOL.

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The Speech of Opposition leader, Aitzaz Ahsan from Pakistan People's Party on 5th day of the very heated debate on the matter can be watched here (In urdu language) in which he blasted the Government's ambigious stance and the proposal to send Armed forces to a war which Pakistani people did not feel was theirs.

These include the right to determine the subject for 17 of the 20 «opposition days» for debate in the Commons each session (standing order 14 (2)-RRB-, and the right to chair the prestigious Public Accounts Committee (standing order 122B (8 (f)-RRB--RRB-.

Hence when Labour was in government the Liberal Democrats could choose topics for three opposition days per session, and enjoyed rights to some (albeit fewer) interventions by frontbenchers during debates and question times.

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I want members to tell us what we should debate in parliament on opposition days.

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In one of his more animated responses, he insisted: «When we were in opposition we used to dream of getting ten days to debate a bill!»

The debate came a year to the day since a last - ditch opposition attempt to halt the bedroom tax and followed an opposition debate on the bedroom tax on Wednesday.

Labour chief whip Nick Brown had raised a point of order complaining about the Government tabling statements on an Opposition Day, thereby reducing the amount of time available for debate.