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Liam Fox is a Conservative MP, and on the vast majority of issues votes the same way as other Conservative MPs.
However, Liam Fox sometimes differs from their party colleagues, such as:
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Liam Fox has occasionally rebelled against their party in the current parliament. Find out more.
I will not—my hon. Friend will forgive me—given the constrictions on time. It would have been possible to create a system that allowed us to do that. The House would have been happy that Parliament would have been able to set those parameters, and not anyone else.
Okay, I will give way to my hon. Friend. She has charmed me into it.
My hon. Friend should ask the Government; I am not the Government. My view is that we want to ensure that the powers are exercised exclusively by Parliament. I do not want any outside body, including the courts, to have a say on what we should or should not do. But I agree that we could have had a mechanism that allowed the House to do that in a way that satisfied all the reservations that...
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Entered the House of Commons on 9 April 1992 — General election
Also represented Woodspring
Liam Fox campaigned to leave the European Union Source: BBC
Last updated: 18 Jan 2021.
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