Sentences with phrase «voted with labour»

I have always voted with the Labour whip.

The closest this country has come to a minority government in recent years is the 1977 Lib - Lab pact, when a beleaguered Labour government with no overall majority agreed to accept a range of Liberal party policy proposals — on condition the Liberals voted with Labour in any no confidence votes.

The decision was carried because Liberal Democrat MP Adrian Sanders voted with Labour.

Last night at least 32 Tory MPs (listed below) voted with Labour against an 88 % hike in Britain's contribution to the IMF.

In the end, however, just one Conservative MP, the chair of the health select committee Sarah Wollaston, voted with Labour.

The rebellious backbench Tory MP stepped up his calls for the immediate breakup of the coalition after Liberal Democrat ministers voted with Labour against boundary changes earlier this week.

Despite the fact that huge swathes of the electorate voted with Labour, believing it to be their best way to stop Brexit, the Tories were able to spin the last general election as giving a huge mandate to pro-Brexit parties.

The bill was given a second reading by 295 votes to 212, but five Conservative MPs voted with Labour in the No lobby:

Naughty rebels of the week: The three Conservative MPs who voted with Labour against sale of forestry lands.

Ministers were forced to abandon a key vote guaranteeing the passage of the Lords reform bill through the Commons over a 14 - day period after it became clear it would have been roundly defeated by Tory rebels voting with the Labour party.

Though normally voting with the Labour Whip, Thornberry voted against her party's government on national security matters, regarding the detention of terror suspects without charge for 90 days in the Terrorism Act 2006, on the same matter for 42 days in the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008, and against the renewal of Trident.

A recent ICM poll for the Scotsman indicated the SNP has 33 per cent of the vote with Labour running at 31 per cent of the constituency vote and 27 per cent of the list vote.

Liberal Democrat MP Don Foster said his party could vote with Labour against coalition colleagues to try and block the News Corp takeover of BSkyB.

The Tories are on 44 per cent of the vote with Labour on 38.

The party's MPs had to vote with Labour against the policy or «forfeit the right to call themselves a progressive political party,» he argued.

«The bedroom tax is cruel, unfair and unworkable and if Nick Clegg really wants to help, he should vote with Labour on Tuesday.»

Further, once in parliament the Greens are more likely to vote with Labour policy than the Conservatives would be.

Wollaston said voting with Labour would be the only way she could express her strength of feeling about flaws in the policy.

In those circumstances, Sturgeon's offer to vote with Labour on major issues won't be enough to propel Miliband into Downing Street.

You could say that it was safe to do so, given the Tories were plainly going to vote with Labour.

The shadow home secretary, Andy Burnham, called on Conservatives to vote with Labour on the motion, which asked the government to «commit today that EU nationals currently living in the UK shall have the right to remain».

On 13 March 1924, the Labour government was defeated for the first time in the Commons, although the Conservatives decided to vote with Labour later that day against the Liberals.

But in a clear warning to Tory rebels planning to vote with Labour, Mrs May said ministers will be «robust» in their attempts to overturn it.

The subject of an internal Labour inquiry, O'Mara finally returned in January and has been voting with Labour ever since.

«In these circumstances, it is right and proper that we assert the Scottish interest on fox hunting by voting with Labour against the Tories» proposals to relax the ban - in the process, reminding an arrogant UK government of just how slender their majority is - just as we will vote against the Tory welfare cuts next week, and appeal to Labour to join us.»

Ms Sturgeon (far right) also repeated the pledge of Alex Salmond (near left) to vote with Labour to lock the Tories out of government, even if neither of their parties hold the biggest number of seats

The 57 Liberal Democrats will be voting with Labour, a move that has infuriated Conservatives, and also bled into other coalition discussions on unrelated issues such as reform of press regulation and even childcare.

Not exact matches

The House of Commons is set to approve the measures with a big majority after the pacifist leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, said he would allow his lawmakers a free vote, rather than impose a party whip.

With just over four weeks until Londoners cast their votes, an exclusive Opinium survey for the Evening Standard says Labour candidate Khan still enjoys a sizable lead and is more trusted than Conservative Goldsmith on the majority of key issues.

SEOUL, April 23 - General Motors Co's South Korean unit dropped a plan for a vote on a bankruptcy filing after reaching a tentative wage deal with its labour union on Monday that helped the U.S. automaker win concessions on pay, bonuses and benefits.

But it seems that the Brexit vote — combined with the strong possibility that Corbyn may not even be a Labour leader by the next General Election — proved too much Piketty.

Around 65 per cent of younger people voted for Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party earlier this year and YouGov has observed that «age seems to be the new dividing line in British politics», with older people tending to favour the Conservative Party and younger people generally voting Labour.

By voting with them, Labour will be saying one thing and doing another.

Interestingly, the trend line is almost parallel with Labour's, suggesting that the parties are not competing for votes as much equally siphoning votes from Yesh Atid.

«I'm quietly confident, in a non-complacent way, that the people who are flirting with the Greens, a large number of them will end up voting Labour - for positive reasons, because we've got radical policies on the environment, we've got very good policies on addressing inequality, the housing crisis, the NHS.

I do not know who I would vote for, now John has stepped down, Abbott carries a lot of baggage with her, telling Blair about his kids going to private school while hers did as well, on the whole I suspect I would vote Abbott, sadly it makes little difference, it does look as if David Miliband will win this one, he is new labour, the new Mp's are mainly new labour, it does look like the days of the working class are over, perhaps one day we will get a party I some how doubt, it, so where does labour stand, we have the Conservative party big business, we have liberals not to sure, we have New labour big business Tory Tory and Liberals.

The voting period for the Labour leadership will open in mid-August and close on 10 September, with the winner announced at a special conference two days later.

I asked Boris, tongue in cheek, if he voted with the Government against Labour's tax credits motion.

With Liberal Democrats and Labour set to oppose the bill, it is certain to be voted down in the Commons unless he comes to a new deal with Nick ClWith Liberal Democrats and Labour set to oppose the bill, it is certain to be voted down in the Commons unless he comes to a new deal with Nick Clwith Nick Clegg.

And that's not the worst of it - Labour's manifesto has precisely nothing to say about the welfare cap, which has hit households with 200,000 children, and which Corbyn was propelled to the leadership by voting against in 2015.

Labour's share of the vote in Moray slipped by 3.3 % on polling day, with the Tories coming second to the SNP.

Forcing Labour and the SNP to actually physically go ahead and vote together while the issue was still undecided would be entirely in keeping with the party's approach.

I think you can avoid this with (i) a primary election day for all parties where voters have to choose which party to vote for OR (ii) a Labour - only primary election day where people who want to vote have to register first.

Because people were really pissed off with Labour, they voted SNP to the left of Labour, not to the right.

Had Labour achieved a higher vote share in the 2015 general election then Miliband would now be better known to Americans as the UK prime minister who is preparing forge a working relationship with Donald Trump.

Hunting became a particularly high - profile political issue in the late 1990s, with the election of Tony Blair's Labour government, which in its 1997 manifesto promised MPs a free vote on a ban on hunting with hounds.

Lib Dem candidate Ross Pepper came third with 3,606 votes, just ahead of Labour's Jim Clarke who was fourth with 3,363 votes.

What is especially galling is that New Labour have retianed the preachyness of the non conformist vote the inherited without anything but sheer bossiness to back it up with.

The AV vote is a Labour Party manifesto commitment, and despite popular belief I make it a point to vote in line with my party's manifesto.

Rosena Allin - Khan, a junior doctor and local councillor, romped to victory with 17,894 votes - increasing Labour's majority in Tooting from 2,842 in last year's general election to 6,357.