he told journalists he thought the legislation would sail through. what do you think he means by that or is that some kind of political posturing on his part? there is a lot of political posturing on his part? there is a lot of political posturing - posturing on his part? there is a lot of political posturing going i posturing on his part? there is a | lot of political posturing going on on all sides of this debate in many ways. i think keir starmer s point is this is a government with a huge majority. they were elected four years ago today in a landslide victory. so the idea that the conservatives can t get a piece of legislation through the house of commons is one that you wouldn t normally countenance it all at this stage. and i think keir starmer s point, he essentially doesn t want a situation where rishi sunak is seen to have done really well by navigating all these tensions within his own party and coming out and getting through to the next stage of this legislation.
conservative mps to back him. if he d lost tonight it would have significantly dented his authority. in total, 313 mps voted in favour of the bill and 269 mps voted against it, meaning the government had a majority of 44 votes. no conservatives mps voted against the bill, but 37 did not vote. chris mason is in westminster. a day ofjeopardy and a day of jitters and the government deploying every tool of persuasion and mathematics, so the phone calls and the snatched conversations in the corridors, the more formal meetings, and on the mathematical side making sure everyone who could vote for the government was here in order to vote for the government. to give you an example, the climate minister who was at the climate talks in the middle east, flew all the way back so that he could vote. that is how nervous the government was, despite the result when we finally got it. quite an evening then after quite a day. quite an evening then after quite a da . . , . , ., day. excuse me,
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