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On Friday, MPs voted 330 to 275, majority 55, to approve Labour MP Kim Leadbeater’s Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill at second reading.
In October 2016, Watson abstained, along with 100 other Labour MPs who abstained on or voted against the Labour Party's unsuccessful motion to withdraw UK support from the Saudi Arabian–led intervention in Yemen. The Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen had led to thousands of civilian casualties. [61] [62]
Labour MPs again abstained. [126] 26 September 2019: A motion to recess Parliament during the Conservative Party Conference, after the prorogation of Parliament was declared void, was defeated 289–306. [127] This was the first time that a major UK-wide party had failed to win a recess for party conference season. [128]
Originally elected as a Labour MP. Announced his support for the Government before Parliament returned. [11] Re-elected in the 1931 and 1935 general elections and served until he resigned in order to retire. [12] Philip Snowden: Colne Valley: 25 August 1931: 7 October 1931: Originally elected as a Labour MP, was Chancellor of the Exchequer in ...
Sir Keir Starmer faced an end-of-term grilling from senior MPs after an opening few months in office which have seen Labour’s poll ratings plummet.. The prime minister took questions from the ...
The Commons debated the report on 19 June 2023. Labour forced a vote and the Commons voted 354 to 7 in support, with a large number of abstentions. This was an absolute majority of the Commons. 118 Conservative MPs, including 15 ministers, voted for the report and 225 abstained.
Labour’s total of 412 MPs is the party’s third best ever performance in terms of seats won, just behind the 413 it achieved in 2001 and a few short of the record 419 Labour MPs elected in 1997 ...