Friday, February 11, 2011

VIDEO: Government narrowly avoids voting bill defeat

The government has narrowly avoided a fourth Lords defeat on the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill, as peers rejected a Labour amendment aiming to retain the current system of public inquiries for changes to constituency boundaries by 266 votes to 262.

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Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/democracylive/hi/house_of_lords/newsid_9391000/9391640.stm

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