Verdicts

The verdict

Two to one in favour, and the chamber barely bothered to argue the other side of it: this was a vote where property rights and net zero pulled in the same direction, leaving heritage protection with a single, largely unanswered voice on the floor.

The verdict

A chamber that voted narrowly to abolish the EHRC mostly argued about something else entirely — sovereignty, deportation and the European Convention — leaving the body itself almost incidental to its own referendum.

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A narrow win for clawing back the Winter Fuel Payment from better-off pensioners masks a chamber where the losing side supplied nearly all the argument, four of five opinions posted came from No voters, yet Yes still carried it 86 to 73.

The verdict

Nearly two to one, the chamber agreed that mathematics beats politics here, but the more striking thing is how many of them thought the question itself was barely worth asking.

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Fiscal devolution carried the day, with three in five voters backing a income tax share for metro mayors, yet the page tells an odd story: every single opinion left behind came from the side that lost, and its case was less about economics than about trust.

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A narrow majority endorsed Elon Musk's thesis of civilisational self-sabotage, with the chamber's Yes voters outnumbering critics roughly nine to seven, even as only one dissenting voice bothered to make the counter-case on the page.

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A permanent ban on serious offenders holding elected office swept through the chamber by more than four to one, yet the most-respected voices on the winning side spent their energy not on the principle but on its loophole: nobody could agree what "serious" means.

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Four to one, the chamber backed shifting the tax burden from shopfronts to sheds, siding decisively with the logic behind Andy Burnham's proposal even as the warehousing and retail lobbies warned the cost would simply travel back down the supply chain to the same high streets it was meant to save.

The verdict

A narrow but decisive verdict, this: the chamber backed shifting money and power away from Westminster by 55 to 45, yet the case that carried it was less about devolution's promise than Westminster's failure.

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Two to one in favour of easier planning for homes and infrastructure, yet the debate that actually happened barely touched planning law at all — it was a proxy fight about immigration, with the most-respected voice on either side making that case rather than the one in the question.

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Nearly three to one, the chamber dismissed the £92,300 grant as a rounding error against council budgets running into hundreds of millions, with even the sole Yes voice conceding the sum was "no where near enough" to undo fourteen years of cuts.

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A narrow majority backed reversing immigration on demographic grounds, yet the chamber's most respected voice went further than the question itself, calling for mass removal and declaring "I no longer care how it's done" — the sharpest line came from the fringe of the winning side, not its centre.

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A near-total rout saw the floor reject scrapping hot school meals for packed lunches by more than four to one, leaving barely one in six voters willing to entertain the idea at all.

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A near three-to-one vote for cutting net migration further wasn't matched by a comparably lopsided debate — the floor's single most-respected voice actually argued the opposite case, that migrants "contribute more to the economy in net terms" than the numbers suggest.

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A near three-to-one verdict for decoupling old renewables from gas prices shows the chamber has largely made its peace with severing the link between wholesale gas and household bills, even as a smaller camp warned against tampering with market pricing altogether.

The verdict

A narrow win for nostalgia: the chamber backed a state-run charm offensive on manners and Britishness by a mere eight points, even as its most respected dissenting voice questioned whether "social engineering" was ever Whitehall's job to begin with.

The verdict

A clear if not overwhelming majority backed fiscal discipline by law, with the chamber's most respected voice reaching straight for the household budget: borrowing too much "leads inexorably to bankruptcy" — a comparison economists dispute but voters here found decisive by 14 points.

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Two in three voters here backed shrinking the university system and reviving maintenance grants, yet the debate's sharpest line came from the No camp, arguing the whole premise was too timid a fix for a system it called broken.

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Nearly six in ten voters here concluded that Nigel Farage's bubble has indeed burst, though the winning side mostly muttered its agreement rather than argued it, leaving the sharpest lines to Reform's defenders.

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Pension savers here were unconvinced that their retirement pots should chase the next unicorn, with the No side winning by two to one on a page where Yes voters offered no defence of the idea at all.

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A ten-point win for No came with almost no case for the winning strategy at all — every opinion left on the page was a No vote, and not one of them addressed Westminster versus Holyrood as a route to independence; they argued about independence itself.

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A four-to-one rout, with barely a quarter of the chamber willing to entertain the premise, suggests voters here read flag removal not as conflict resolution but as retreat — the debate's sharpest lines came from the No side insisting the Union flag is the solution, not the problem.

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A clear three-to-two majority backed handing trusts direct responsibility for AI scribe safety, yet the most striking thing is how thin the argument got as the stakes rose - even sceptics conceded trusts are "best placed to spot issues.

The verdict

Two to one, the chamber decided Andy Burnham will not be the prime minister who finally cracks social care, extending a decade-long pattern of scepticism that has outlasted several occupants of Downing Street already.