Sentences with phrase «voted against government policy»
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.»
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The Sun Herald reported on December 20 that the Australian Beverages Council had threatened to run attack advertising against the Baird Government during the March election if cabinet voted in favour of a container deposit policy.
IF, and it's a big IF, there were to be a hung Parliament next time around, far better that the LibDems (and I guess this applies to the SNP, Plaid Cymru and Dr. Dick Taylor too) act as kingmakers by voting for or against the government, whether it be Labour or Conservative, * on the merits of each individual piece of legislation * than propping up some of the most loathsome, reactionary policies this side of the self - styled moral crusaders from the ear of High Thatcherism.
«Ministers fear Lib Dem activists at the party's annual conference, which starts this weekend in Glasgow, are set to rebel against key Government policies and may vote to reinstate the 50p rate introduced by Labour weeks before it lost power in 2010.
The Welsh assembly government is to hold a public inquiry into the country's ambulance service after the health minister accidentally voted against his own policy.
The position of the Federal Government is that in view of the fact that Cameroon has been a major key player in the war against insurgency and the involvement of Cameroon in fighting for the stability of Nigeria, it will be out of the foreign policy context of Nigeria to abandon Cameroon and the acting president directed me — and I have communicated appropriately that if the only vote that will come to Hayatou will be from Nigeria, Nigeria should stand with Hayatou.»
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
Mr Howarth said: «We can not go on with a political system under which unpopular governments are elected by a little more than a third of those voting and who push through policies that two - thirds of those voting have just voted against.»
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.