Sentences with phrase «vote against the government today»

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.

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.

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A particularly stressful week for farmers has come to a relieving end with the Greens today supporting the federal government's proposed 15 per cent backpacker tax after voting against it yesterday.

The danger the United States faces today is that the government debt crisis scheduled to hit Congress next spring (when Republicans are threatening to vote against raising the federal debt limit as the government deficit soars) will provide an opportunity for the wealthy to give a coup de grace on what is left of progressive taxation in this country.

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.

Kirsty Williams AM, leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats, has written to the First Minister today stating that her party will vote against the Local Government Settlement unless a better deal for rural authorities is put forward.

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

Today's debate is likely to be the last chance for the Commons to debate the bill, with Ed Miliband hoping enough Liberal Democrat MPs will have been unnerved by the lack of support from their own members over the weekend that they might be prepared to vote against the government.

Today Mr Prescott went one step further, by demanding Labour voters vote against the introduction of AV and treat the referendum as a vote on the coalition government.

Mark Williams, Member of Parliament for Ceredigion and Leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats, has today voted against the Second Reading of the Government's Brexit Bill.

The Labour leader told the Guardian he would vote against the Government's motion — and Labour policy — today: «I will be voting against continuous at - sea deterrent, because it rules out any compliance with the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.