Opposition Day — European Union — 13 Dec 2011 at 21:38
Crispin Blunt MP, Reigate voted to commend the Prime Minister for refusing to sign up to an EU Treaty without safeguards for the UK.
The majority of MPs commended the Prime Minister for refusing to sign up to an EU Treaty without safeguards for the UK.
The text of the approved motion was:
- That this House
- commends the Prime Minister on his refusal at the European Council to sign up to a Treaty without safeguards for the UK;
- regards the use of the veto in appropriate circumstances to be a vital means of defending the national interests of the UK; and
- recognises the desire of the British people for a rebalancing of the relationship with our European neighbours based on co-operation and mutually beneficial economic arrangements.
Party Summary
Votes by party, red entries are votes against the majority for that party.
What is Tell? '+1 tell' means that in addition one member of that party was a teller for that division lobby.
What are Boths? An MP can vote both aye and no in the same division. The boths page explains this.
What is Turnout? This is measured against the total membership of the party at the time of the vote.
Party | Majority (Aye) | Minority (No) | Both | Turnout |
Con | 271 | 0 | 0 | 88.6% |
DUP | 6 (+2 tell) | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
Independent | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
Lab | 0 | 191 (+2 tell) | 0 | 75.1% |
LDem | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0% |
PC | 0 | 1 | 0 | 33.3% |
SDLP | 0 | 2 | 0 | 66.7% |
SNP | 0 | 5 | 0 | 83.3% |
Total: | 278 | 199 | 0 | 75.0% |
Rebel Voters - sorted by party
MPs for which their vote in this division differed from the majority vote of their party. You can see all votes in this division, or every eligible MP who could have voted in this division
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