Queen's Speech — Prime Minister's Prorogative — 1 Dec 2004 at 18:59

Those voting Aye failed to add a sentence to the end of the motion (thanking the Queen for her speech) which read:

...but regret that the Gracious Speech contains no commitment to introduce legislation to clarify the responsibility of the Prime Minister to Parliament, particularly in relation to the prerogative powers and the role of Parliament in matters of war and peace; and call for a special Select Committee of the House to consider these matters.

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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.

PartyMajority (No)Minority (Aye)BothTurnout
Con134 2083.4%
DUP0 3050.0%
Independent0 1050.0%
Independent Conservative1 00100.0%
Lab303 (+2 tell) 3075.7%
LDem0 51 (+2 tell)096.4%
PC0 3075.0%
SNP0 50100.0%
UUP5 00100.0%
Total:443 68079.5%

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

Sort by: Name | Constituency | Party | Vote

NameConstituencyPartyVote
Douglas HoggSleaford and North HykehamConaye
Richard ShepherdAldridge-BrownhillsCon (front bench)aye
Mark FisherStoke-on-Trent CentralLab (minister)aye
Robert Marshall-AndrewsMedwayLabaye
Mr Brian SedgemoreHackney South and ShoreditchLabaye

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