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Originally Posted by roadrunner69
Someone else on here poined out that EDM's are restricted to backbenchers and WH is the shadow foreign sec (i think)
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Originally Posted by BadPhormula
Okay that is fair enough. But what excuse do the other Tories (and a major section of Labour) have?
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Yep, it was in my reply from my local Labour MP. She is a parliamentary private secretary. She explained that EDMs are a way "To put pressure on the Government"
To BadPhormula's point, my take on this is that some Labour MPs might still sign it (but that makes them "rebels" and is a career limiting decision!). However, I don't see why any Tory or other flavour MP would not be able to sign (unless they had cross party discussions and used it as part of a bargaining point to get something else on their agenda forward...)
So keep asking your MP - and why not ask even if they are a Labour one, nothing to lose? If they are not in a big job for the current Government, they
might sign it.
Hank