Introduction

Last night saw 18 divisions on amendments from the House of Lords. That's the most number of divisions in this parliament back to back. Whips were pretty happy with how it went because they managed to defeat every single one of the amendments that hadn't already made a plan to come to an agreement and accept in. The government actually gave way on ahead of the votes such as reducing the number of time a pregnant woman would be held in detention but when it comes to some of the amendments they chose not to offer concessions on.