Philip Cowley
Philip Cowley
Philip Cowley is a British political scientist and an academic at Queen Mary University of London in the School of Politics and International Relations. He previously held the same title at the University of Nottingham. Within academia he is particularly notable for his analysis of Parliamentary voting behaviour in the UK House of Commons and House of Lords and secondly his opposition to a lowering of the UK voting age below 18...
almost bit blair bring people reform totally watered
Blair can do a little bit more to bring people on board. But they've already watered it down so totally that it almost doesn't reform anything.
looks vote
Right now, it looks as if 60 may vote against. If they could get that down to 40, it wouldn't be so embarrassing to Blair.
coming escaped relatively week
They've escaped relatively unharmed. We are where we were a week ago. They haven't made things worse, but they're still in a hole. The big one is still coming up.