Thursday, 4 December 2008

Gordon Brown equals an Edward Heath record

Gordon Brown has qualified for one Parliamentary record at least.

He has had the most backbench rebellions since the days of Edward Heath.

Revolts.co.uk has compiled a survey which finds that amongst other things

Gordon Brown’s first complete parliamentary session as Prime Minister, saw Labour MPs defy their whips on 103 occasions. That compares to 96 occasions in Tony Blair’s whole first Parliament.
and

The most rebellious Labour MP was (yet again) Jeremy Corbyn


Maybe though Heath had a better excuse.His revolts were mainly against the European treaty

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