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Showing posts with label Commons defeats. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Commons defeats. Show all posts

Friday, 22 November 2013

Coalition Government defeats in the Commons

I've stumbled across a great article on another blog which lists the Commons defeats that the Coalition has had. You can find it here. I lists 10, and crucially makes the connection with the defeats that actually happened through a vote (eg, Syria) with the changes in policy that a large number of rebellious MPs forced on the Government without going for a vote (eg House of Lords reform & boundary changes). By contrast, the Wikipedia page which lists defeats of the government only shows 3 for the coalition.

Bagehot in the Economist has a great article about the rebelliousness of Conservative MPs here.