Sentences with phrase «possible speaker line»
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Factoring in two tellers from each side, you had 325 MPs backing the Government line and 304 opposing it, meaning that 629 out of a possible 640 MPs participated in the divisions (the remaining ten are accounted for by the 5 Sinn Fein MPs, the Speaker, 3 Deputy Speakers and the vacancy in Oldham East and Saddleworth).
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Disclosure: a speaker, yesterday, at a lecture I attended used the Henry 2 v Henry 8 line to describe the possible results, saying that, of course, the decision wouldn't be put quite that way.