One-Party Britain: It's Official

Forty-one per cent in 1997-2001. As little as thirty-two per cent in 2001 to 2005. And in this Parliament, the Tories have voted against Second or Third Reading of Government Bills a mere twenty-two per cent of the time. In the last session, they opposed only four bills at Second or Third Reading, fully fifteen per cent of Government legislation. Look at it either way: the Tories agree with New Labour eighty-five per cent of the time, and eighty-five per cent of New Labour's ideas arouse no Tory disagreement.