No defectors on first Budget vote
No backbenchers have defected on the first vote in Budget 2013.
Motions to increase the price of drink and tobacco from midnight passed by 108 votes to 49.
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Motions to increase the price of drink and tobacco from midnight passed by 108 votes to 49.
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