Sentences with phrase «voting lobbies»

Politically, it makes sense for governments to cater to homeowners, a powerful voting lobby.

The crunch vote on tuition fees takes place this afternoon, as analysts wait to see how the convulsions within the Lib Dems, under pressure over their pre-election pledge to oppose any rise in fees, will play out in the voting lobbies.

There is a portrait of the current assembly with members waiting to enter and leave the voting lobbies.

The whips are not ushering them into one voting lobby or the other.

Right now the voting process is public: like any other division MPs have to physically make their way through the voting lobbies to be counted.

«Will he back us in the voting lobby tonight?»

«Only the Liberal Democrats can be trusted to promote a free and socially just society» — but it seems that only a handful of Lib Dem MPs can be trusted do so in the voting lobbies of Parliament.

We have delivered our people through the voting lobbies in every case.

Vaz, who is diabetic, last spoke in the Commons chamber 10 days ago and was in the voting lobbies on Wednesday during a debate on Brexit laws.

It won't be clear, from the tweets of MPs emerging from the voting lobbies, which side is going to win.

«Am I going to put up with some crazy left wing policies that he is putting forward and traipse through the voting lobby to support him?

Joining the Lords I got announced a week before I gave birth, so in terms of life - changing events, having the baby was way more impactful... It was actually Neil and Glenys Kinnock who told me, «If you want to vote with your baby, sit in the voting lobby before the vote's called.

Philip Cowley and Mark Stuart: Serious three - way splits for a parliamentary party in the voting lobbies are rare, but not unprecedented

«Philip Cowley and Mark Stuart: Serious three - way splits for a parliamentary party in the voting lobbies are rare, but not unprecedented Main Gareth McKeever: Draconian hikes in tuition fees may discourage those from lower income families from attending university and drive them to study and work overseas»

«James Morris: Localism and Decentralisation are the defining concepts of the Coalition's governing philosophy Main Philip Cowley and Mark Stuart: Serious three - way splits for a parliamentary party in the voting lobbies are rare, but not unprecedented»

There is no love lost; a state of more or less open warfare exists between these two extremes of the coalition, whether they brush up against each other on the doorstep or in the Commons» voting lobbies.

They do enough of that in the voting lobbies.

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.

Young «un Lucy Powell tweets: «Going through the voting lobby with Tories and Lib Dems is a bit weird.»

The source said: «He also made clear that if you are too ill to go through the voting lobbies, you can sit in your office and be nodded through, meaning your vote is still recorded.

In the past being chief whip simply involved getting MPs to support the government in the voting lobbies (by fair means or foul).

A large group of his party wanted to oppose sanctions, while a slightly smaller, but equally vocal section wanted to support Wilson in the voting lobbies.

She came to oppose it, but on the fateful night of the vote, as I hovered outside the voting lobby, she was inside the lobby door, accompanied by her parliamentary private secretary, the late Dennis Turner.

«Nick Clegg marched his MPs through the voting lobbies in support of the harsh and unfair policies of this Tory - led government in anticipation of receiving Lords reform in return.