Sentences with phrase «voted against ministers»

Stephen Kinnock followed the party line in abstaining, but 48 of his colleagues voted against ministers» plans to cut # 12bn from the welfare budget.

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He has properly railed against the short pants brigade in the prime minister's office, «masters half my age,» he said, telling him how to vote, what to say and what questions to ask in committee.

Either it means that other members of his party — the finance minister, who is against the referendum — will come in and not hold a referendum at all, and try to keep Greece on the austerity plan, or there will be a fall in the government, a no - confidence vote, and people will presumably vote for the Conservative Party, which is very much like the Republican Party in the United States.

The Armenian parliament has voted against naming protest leader Nikol Pashinian as the country's new prime minister.

It is against this background of public moral struggle that the people of Israel prepare to vote on July 23 for their next government, in an election that pits the conservative Likud Party of Menachem Begin and current Prime Minister Yitzak Shamir against the Labor Party headed by two - time loser Shimon Peres.

Priests, ministers, and rabbis all marched arm in arm to protest against the brutality and to demonstrate for the right of Negroes to vote.

The songwriter however failed to reach 40 per cent of the votes so will now have to compete in the runoff on 1st April against ex-government minister Carlos Alvarado Quesada, who was also once a singer in a rock band.

A prime minister toppled, a vote to leave the European Union, a shadow cabinet in open revolt against its leader.

This could result in Catholic ministers and MPs voting against the three specific measures but being whipped to accept the bill as a whole if a majority in the Commons votes for the reforms.

The prime minister has said MPs will be given a free vote against the specific use of hybrid embryos, so - called «saviour siblings» and IVF reform when the bill first enters the Commons.

After appointing Mullin to junior office again in 2003 the Prime Minister discovered that as a backbencher he had voted against the Iraq War.

The deputy prime minister told reporters he would instruct his MPs to vote against the constituency boundary review in retaliation for Tory MPs» refusal to support House of Lords reform.

Europe minister David Lidington has hit out against Conservative eurosceptics ahead of Wednesday's likely vote by telling them to focus on issues other than the in / out referendum tearing his party apart.

A minister could use this power to start making changes on the ground - tinkering with law and regulators in a way that makes it all - but impossible for parliament to vote against the deal, because of the chaos it would trigger.

In September the Polish foreign minister on a visit to London claimed there had been an «explosion» of hate crime against his countrymen since the Brexit vote.

«You have government ministers potentially voting against their own Queen's Speech,» shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper told BBC1's The Andrew Marr Show.

A former deputy minister at the Ministry of Gender and Social Protection Rachel Appoh has revealed that she had to pay her constituents to reduce the NO votes against President Mahama during NDC's primaries held over the weekend.

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.

I know that there are many ministers and Conservative MPs who want to speak out and vote against this ill - thought - out and inadvisable measure.

Maria Miller must have been holding her breath throughout, and although she had a firm and embarrassing telling - off by Bercow for giving a lengthy statement rather than answering topical questions, she was lucky no one asked her about how appropriate she was as the new equalities minister, considering she has voted against the criminalisation of hate speech.

Fairfax's latest count of Labor MPs and their voting intentions has the Prime Minister holding her ground, two to one against Mr Rudd.

FILE PHOTO - Romanian Prime Minister Mihai Tudose addresses the Romanian Parliament before a no - confidence vote against Romania's Social Democrat - led government, in Bucharest, Romania, November 23, 2017.

7.30 pm Update: Preliminary estimate from Paul Waugh of PoliticsHome - 132 Tory MPs voted with the Prime Minister and 139 against.

Nicholas Watt of the Guardian is tweeting Labour sources as saying that more Conservative MPs have voted against the Prime Minister than with him.

Labour MPs, led by Ed Miliband, and Tory rebels voted down ministers» proposals to launch strikes against Syrian government targets after the Assad Regime used chemical weapons against his own people.

I mean his personal popularity across the UK plummeted to it's lowest level ever in the autumn but, and this may come as a genuine shock to some, he is a Conservative prime minister at the end of the day, and more than this, he is a Conservative prime minister addressing Scottish people, 83 % of whom voted against him at the General Election and many of whom are still a bit miffed about that whole poll tax business.

Since the morning after the first independence referendum three years ago, the thin - skinned tyrant of English nationalism has treated Scotland with nothing but contempt - English Votes for English Laws, hysterical Tory election posters demonising Scotland's largest party, voting for Brexit, ditching the single market against the express wishes of First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, and generally behaving like an abusive husband who's hidden the new PIN for the joint bank account.

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

Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani - Kayode, has reacted to the statement by the Minister of Woman Affairs, Aisha Alhassan that she would vote against her employer,...

Anas Sarwar: «During the election campaign, the Deputy Prime Minister said: «We will resist, vote against, campaign against, any lifting of that cap» on tuition fees.

The Scottish first minister said the SNP would simply vote against its replacement when the maingate vote is held in the Commons.

«The numbers are against us and if we face repeated defeats when the withdrawal bill returns to the Commons, the only alternative will be to kick over the table and trigger a vote of no confidence in the Prime Minister, which will likely lead to another general election.

Four shadow cabinet ministers resigned so they could be among the 47 Labour MPs to vote against Brexit.

Ms Morgan voted against the measure last year, and Benjamin Cohen, publisher of gay current affairs site PinkNews, said of her appointment: «It is unfortunate that the new Minister for Women opposes the rights of some women, lesbians, to have the right to marry.

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.

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.

Local Government and Rural Development Minister, Alhaji Collins Dauda has advised Muslims in the country to vote against the NPP and its presidential candidate if they do not want to suffer discrimination.

The prime minister voted against the ban when it was introduced under Tony Blair and New Labour.

But the Cabinet minister said the Commons had «plainly and clearly» voted against the initial amendments moved by peers to reopen the Leveson inquiry, as he urged MPs to reject the latest measures.

Shadow Justice Minister blames leader for «shambles» ahead of Syria vote and says he must act against intimidation inside Labour

After Scots voted against independence, Mr Salmond announced he will be stepping down from the position of both SNP leader and First Minister.

It may surprise the Home Secretary to know that the whole Labour party, including the current and former Prime Minister, voted against that legislation on the grounds that it did not go far enough in liberalising the situation and still applied the criminal law to far too much information.

An offensive against Mr Corbyn since the EU referendum has seen more than 50 shadow ministers quit, a decisive vote of no confidence in the leader and a string of senior figures call on him to step down.

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.

There is a «Direct link between Miliband's cynical vote against Syria motion & Russia's actions on Ukraine,» Treasury minister and close aide to the chancellor, Sajid Javid tweeted, adding that this made the Labour leader «Completely unfit to lead Britain».

We know of three shadow ministers who are not supporting it: Stephen Timms and Robert Flello who are voting against and Gavin Shuker who has said he will abstain.

The shadow policing minister declared that her party would be voting against «a completely inappropriate police funding settlement that leaves our communities exposed and the public at risk».

Miliband reminded Cameron they had walked through the voting lobby together against an in - or - out referendum in the October 2011 division which saw 81 Tory MPs vote against the prime minister.

New equalities minister Caroline Dinenage has stated that she now supports equal marriage — having voted against it in 2013.

But rebel Crispin Blunt, the former prisons minister, told the Today programme he had voted against Cameron precisely to change the way Britain conducts its foreign policy.