Below you will find example sentences with "labour mps". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Labour Mps in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: mps
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 13
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 31.1 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 5 start, 11 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "labour mps" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 31.1 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as against moderate labour mps and the, alongside six labour mps, party, former and government stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with labour party, labour congress, labour leader, conservative mps, tory mps and opposition mps, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with labour mps
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In March, when MPs voted on Theresa May's deal for the third time, five Labour MPs backed it, plus two ex-Labour independents. (24 words)
While some Tory MPs believe that Labour MPs came to the Chamber determined to come after the prime minister personally, such was their dislike of him. (26 words)
Various Labour MPs gently pointed out that the purpose of departmental questions was for MPs to interrogate ministers, but Kwarteng wasn’t having any of that. (26 words)
Mr Hoyle, who is a former Labour MP from Chorley, is accused of bowing to pressure from Labour leader Keir Starmer, but said his "wrong decision" was made due to potential threats being made to Labour MPs if they did not debate their position. (44 words)
The MPs who have written a letter to the Guardian calling for a review include Oliver Letwin and Nick Boles, as well as Labour MPs and the former Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable and the Green party MP Caroline Lucas. (40 words)
After his remarks on Wednesday, MPs voted to renew the powers under the legislation by 330 votes to 24 – a government majority of 306. In total, seven Conservatives rebelled against the party’s whip alongside six Labour MPs. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
After the government won two of the votes with a majority of just three, remain-backing Labour MPs turned on Cable and Farron – although three Labour MPs, and a former Labour MP also backed the government.
As the Mail revealed last week, out of the 404 Labour MPs, no fewer than 213 Labour MPs have received donations from trade unions in the last three months.
In March, when MPs voted on Theresa May's deal for the third time, five Labour MPs backed it, plus two ex-Labour independents.
Mr Hoyle, who is a former Labour MP from Chorley, is accused of bowing to pressure from Labour leader Keir Starmer, but said his "wrong decision" was made due to potential threats being made to Labour MPs if they did not debate their position.
It hasn't helped settle some Labour MPs' nerves that so many Conservative MPs have been noisily declaring that they are much less right-wing than Mrs Elphicke.
After his remarks on Wednesday, MPs voted to renew the powers under the legislation by 330 votes to 24 – a government majority of 306. In total, seven Conservatives rebelled against the party’s whip alongside six Labour MPs.
While some Tory MPs believe that Labour MPs came to the Chamber determined to come after the prime minister personally, such was their dislike of him.
Dr Lee is among several disaffected MPs to join the Liberal Democrats, including ex-Tories Sam Gyimah and Sarah Wollaston, and former Labour MPs Chuka Umunna, Angela Smith and Luciana Berger.
The MPs who have written a letter to the Guardian calling for a review include Oliver Letwin and Nick Boles, as well as Labour MPs and the former Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable and the Green party MP Caroline Lucas.
The three MPs struck a far more upbeat note at their press conference, on their switch to independents, than the ex-Labour MPs who publicly expressed more sorrow at leaving their party.
Various Labour MPs gently pointed out that the purpose of departmental questions was for MPs to interrogate ministers, but Kwarteng wasn’t having any of that.
Ministers are in talks with as many as 25 Labour MPs to force through Theresa May's Chequers Brexit deal risking open warfare with the party’s own MPs.
These areas are mostly represented by Labour MPs, with a few Conservative MPs representing parts of Leeds (with a Lib Dem MP) and North East Lincolnshire, and all of Scarborough.
Labour MPs are expected to confront the leadership about the sex abuse ad at a showdown meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) on Monday evening.
It is an inescapable political and mathematical fact that there is unlikely to be another UK Labour Prime Minister without a significant number of Scottish Labour MPs.
Of course, Starmer’s gamble is put at risk by the fact that Labour’s own divides could also be fairly clear to see, if a significant number of Labour MPs vote for/against the restrictions.
And he organised a social-democratic front organisation among Labour MPs and peers – the Labour peers having in effect issued a unilateral declaration of independence from Corbyn.
However, given the recent deselection threats against moderate Labour MPs and the abolition of the Blairite Labour Students, Adonis’s ambitions may be thwarted if the NEC barred him from the shortlist.
It suggests that in leave seats with sitting Labour MPs that the Labour Party will see off the Tories and BXP simply because they are splitting the vote.
McDonnell also raised the possibility of Labour potentially supporting a second Brexit referendum before a general election, an idea popular with some Labour MPs but so far resisted by Corbyn and his team.