Sentences with phrase «vote against a government»

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

But voting against the government in the Queen's speech, that's political grandstanding,» she says.

They will be allowed to abstain when any change goes through parliament, but some have already committed themselves to rebel and vote against the government, including former leader Ming Campbell.

Nevertheless some Lib Dem MPs have vowed to rebel and vote against the government, including former leader Ming Campbell.

Parliamentary private secretaries can expect to face the boot if they 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.

Heseltine was one of 13 Conservative peers to vote against the Government on whether Parliament should have a «meaningful» say on the final terms of Brexit, including if the prime minister chooses to withdraw from negotiations without a deal.

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».

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.

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.

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.

This is in spite of new parliamentary Labour Party standing orders which made it a disciplinary offence for MPs to vote against the government.

Last night, 48 Labour MPs defied interim leader Harriet Harman's call to abstain on the Conservatives» welfare plans and voted against the Government.

Meanwhile, on the opposite benches, around 15 Tory MPs are keen to vote against the government.

The former Labour leader has announced he will vote against the government's motion after listening to this afternoon's ongoing debate in the House of Commons.

We have a lot of people as taxi drivers in this country... if we decide to vote against your government, you will definitely exit power because we are many... a lot of people have regretted voting for Akufo - Addo.

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

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

However, now that he has said that Lib Dem Ministers will vote against Government policy, I wonder what his definition of collective responsibility is within a coalition Government.»

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.

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.

Only 32 MPs need to vote against the government to wipe out its majority of 63, but canvassing carried out by the leftwing organisation Compass indicates that more than 100 Labour MPs will send a warning to ministers when they sign an early day motion opposing the move to part - privatise the Post Office when parliament returns on 12 January.

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.

The best estimates are that there will only be a handful of Conservative MPs willing to vote against the government's position while there will be significantly more Labour MPs willing to defy Jeremy Corbyn's position and vote for action in Syria.

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.

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

During the last Parliament, I voted against our government when it introduced legislation to cut the deficit in half by 2010.

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.

The chief whip in the Lords asked Lord Heseltine to stand down because he voted against the government's official position, it said, adding: «The government would like to warmly thank Lord Heseltine for his service.»

David Cameron has been delaying the next stage of the debate on the immigration bill for weeks, because he knew that the report stage debate would see dozens of Tory MPs trying to vote against the government and in favour of a much tougher stance on immigration.

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.

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.

Cameron dares Labour to vote against the government as an act of «naked opportunism.

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.

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

Meanwhile Conservative backbenchers informally led by former Welsh secretary Cheryl Gillan will vote against the government.

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.

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

The threat seems real enough, with one rebel telling the paper there are «more than half a dozen who could vote against the government and lots more abstentions».

Lord Forsyth said ministers who voted against the government should be sacked, and that Nick Clegg had «double crossed the prime minister».

Mr Pound said he had resigned as a parliamentary private secretary to vote against the government.

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.

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.

The Labour MP Mike Gapes clearly believes a military strike would be the right thing to do - yet he voted against the Government.

Given that there are more than 300 Tory MPs he calculates that AT LEAST 80 Conservatives were unavailable, abstained or voted against the government.