Sentences with phrase «to vote against the government»

If any PC members were to vote against a government bill, it may fail.

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

One of the fears expressed by the six Tory rebels who voted against the Government on tuition fees last night (full breakdown of who rebelled is here) was that the increase would deter people from poorer backgrounds fro going to university.

After some months of passive support for MacDonald, the Liberals joined the Tories in voting against the government in October, precipitating the third general election within two years.

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.

The letter from Grayling to Tory MP Geoffrey Cox, who voted against the government when the measures were debated last week, saw the justice secretary admit he got a fundamental aspect of his reforms wrong.

Which is why the Prime Minister's attempt to brand those who plan to vote against the government as «terrorist sympathisers» both demeans the office of the Prime Minister and undermines the seriousness of the deliberations we are having today.»

Peers voted against government plans to limit the right to bring a judicial review in October.

The MPs include some of those who have voted against Government policy in recent months on House of Lords reform - and Europe.

«If the government insists on driving through an unrealistic policy simply to satisfy the demands of a few of my more ideological colleagues, I will find myself in the division lobbies voting against my government for the first time in my parliamentary career,» he said.

The House of Lords last night voted against the government order on casinos, leaving culture secretary Tessa Jowell struggling to claim plans are «very much alive».

In an article in the Evening Standard defending her decision to vote against the government last night, the Conservative former education secretary Nicky Morgan says the government should drop the amendment to the EU withdrawal bill fixing 29 March 2019 as Brexit day before it gets debated next week.

«If no one who ever voted against the government [got a] ministerial office... [Iain] Duncan - Smith wouldn't be in the cabinet,» he said.

A second assault upon Brown's premiership was launched in September 2008 when Siobhain McDonagh — an MP who had never voted against the government [118]-- spoke of the need for discussion over Brown's position.

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.

If the Commons votes against the Government on a motion of no confidence, the Fixed - term Parliaments Act 2011 specifies that Parliament automatically dissolves unless a subsequent motion of confidence is passed within fourteen days.

Many Labour backbenchers are set to vote against the # 20 billion plan to replace Trident while two prominent frontbenchers have already resigned to vote against the government today.

He has also voted against the Government on tuition fees and yesterday voted against air strikes on Islamic State militants.

While by - elections are often used as protest votes against governments and have lower than usual turnouts, this parliamentary contest has a whole number of potentially significant ramifications for British politics.

Eighty - one Tories voted against the government on Monday night, in the largest ever revolt over Europe in parliament's history.

Anyone who votes against the government recognizing gay marriage is a bigot and most of them are driven by religious views.

«Do I get what I want by voting against the government?

This very aspect of the bill drove lords to vote against the government earlier this month, when it emerged Grayling had misled the Commons by saying the courts retained discretion in exceptional circumstances.

The extraordinary scenes led the Lords to once again vote against the government, triggering a period of «ping pong» between the chambers.

Conservative rebels wouldn't be a problem for Nick Clegg and Mark Harper if it wasn't for Labour's decision to vote against the government tomorrow night.

After his blistering «Alice in Wonderland» onslaught» during the second reading debate, the Tories» Brexit rebel - in - chief joined the revolt in the committee stage on EU nationals living in the UK and fairly consistently voted against the Government throughout the committee stage.

The Lib Dems and DUP will have to be treated delicately, but will not always vote against the government either.

But the Scottish National Party, which currently has 54 MPs after two lost the whip, is expected to vote against the government motion, along with Plaid Cymru, the Social Democratic and Labour Party, and the Green party's Caroline Lucas.

Despite apparently over-the-top tactics, Tory whips failed to stop backbenchers from voting against the government.

Mr Walker voted against the government in last month's rebellion because he backed one of the options in the proposed referendum, recommending the repatriation of powers.

Malcolm Chisholm quit his role as communities minister in the Scottish parliament last night after voting against the government.

Labour MPs told the Guardian they were prepared to vote against the government even if it meant sacrificing the partial recovery Labour has been enjoying against the Conservatives.

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

Sanders said he had got the agreement of Liberal Democrat whips on Monday to pair with Burstow after telling them he would otherwise vote against the government.

She dislikes the metropolitan elite who believe politics is all about talking and think tanks, but equally castigates «Labour MPs in Parliaments before 2010 who had voted against the government more times than David Cameron».

Campbell was first elected as an MP for Blyth Valley at the 1987 general election with a majority of 853 votes, and has often voted against the government on issues such as the Iraq War.

Less than a quarter of the Labour MPs that signed up to an early day motion expressing concern at the government's plans to reduce funding for equivalent or lower qualification (ELQ) degrees voted against the government in a Conservative - led motion last night.

The Conservatives have accused Labour backbenchers of «hypocrisy» for failing to vote against government cuts for second degrees.

During the House of Commons vote in October 2011 on a backbench motion for a bill to be introduced in the next parliamentary session to enable a referendum to be held on Britain's continued membership of the European Union, Mosley was one of 81 Conservative MPs who voted against the Government Whip to support a referendum.

He has been a long - time critic of the UK's policy on Afghanistan, and was the only Conservative to vote against his government when Afghanistan was first voted upon in 2010

As a cabinet minister he had voted against his government policy at a meeting of Labour's national executive.

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.

But with the Liberal Democrats now confirmed they will not support the motion, the rebels look certain to be defeated and Mr Davidson confirmed many would now not vote against the government.

This has led some to suggest the government ignored dissent among the Lords to shore up Commons» support, with last night's defeat marking only the third time peers have voted against a government order.

Neill, a former communities minister, said it was the first time he had ever voted against his government.

Apart from the DUP, almost every other party in the Commons voted against the government, including six SNP MPs and three Plaid Cymru MPs.