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Boris orders Tory MPs to ABSTAIN in Labour vote on border rules

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Boris orders Tory MPs to ABSTAIN in Labour vote demanding even tougher border crackdown to stop mutant Covid strains Labour wants the Government to introduce hotel quarantine for all UK arrivals Currently the policy only applies to people arriving in UK from ‘red list’ countries  Labour will try to force vote on the issue but … Read more

Keir Starmer accused of ‘playing politics’ after he orders Labour to ABSTAIN in Covid Tiers vote

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No10 accuses Keir Starmer of ‘playing politics’ in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic after he orders Labour MPs to ABSTAIN on crucial Tiers vote tonight in order to quell his own backbench mutiny and show up division in the Tory ranks Labour will abstain in Commons vote on whether to adopt new three-tier system  … Read more

Coronavirus UK: Keir Starmer orders Labour to ABSTAIN in Commons vote on tiers system

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Sir Keir Starmer has decided to break from Boris Johnson in a vote today on new Covid tier restrictions for the first time, in a split that could damage the PM and leave him at the mercy of Tory rebels. No10 expects to win today’s Commons vote on the three-tier lockdown curbs, which are due … Read more

Theresa May and Sajid Javid lead Tory rebellion against PM’s Brexit bill as both abstain from vote

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The controversial Internal Markets bill has passed its first two House of Commons hurdles this evening as the Labour bid to get it thrown out failed – despite fears over it breaking international law.  Boris Johnson has said the legislation was necessary to prevent the EU taking an ‘extreme and unreasonable’ interpretation of the provisions … Read more