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**Damien** · 17-07-2018, 21:21

Wouldn't have changed the result but the Tories broke pairing tonight: https://twitter.com/tnewtondunn/stat...03110794186753

Jo Swinson was paired with Brandon Lewis but, after she was told that, he voted anyway.

Quite a low thing to do.

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TBH Pairing helps out the Government a lot. Sometimes Government ministers cannot be in the chamber, especially the PM and Foreign Secretary, so no reason now Labour can't refuse to honour in those cases. So either the PM and others need to attend every vote or risk losing it.

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Damien Remoaner Cable Forum Team Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 32,224	Re: Brexit Discussion (New thread-Follow First Post Rules!) Wouldn't have changed the result but the Tories broke pairing tonight: https://twitter.com/tnewtondunn/stat...03110794186753 Jo Swinson was paired with Brandon Lewis but, after she was told that, he voted anyway. Quite a low thing to do. ---------- Post added at 21:21 ---------- Previous post was at 21:14 ---------- TBH Pairing helps out the Government a lot. Sometimes Government ministers cannot be in the chamber, especially the PM and Foreign Secretary, so no reason now Labour can't refuse to honour in those cases. So either the PM and others need to attend every vote or risk losing it.