I had assumed that there was some mistake and the answer was not what he would like to hear. However I now see that Mr Lucas' preferred candidate Ed Miliband ("Candidate of Change") is, in a welcome development, giving qualified backing to the coalition's stance on sentencing.
Mr Lucas has been a very loyal Labour MP, even going so far as to vote to welcome the Government's Post Offices closures while campaigning against them locally. Many of the "rebellions" were on such vital topics as the time that Parliament meets on a Tuesday.
From Public Whip
2001 - 2005 Rebelled 13 times out of 987 = 1.3%
2005 - 2010 Rebelled 3 times out of 1089 = 0.3%
2010 - Date Rebelled 1 time out of 14 = 7.1% (Obviously 14 votes is too few for the percentage to mean much.)
Could it be that after years of backing pretty much anything Labour said Mr Lucas is now deliberately undermining senior party members like Alan Johnson and Jack Straw to help Ed Miliband win? Obviously I think that they need some undermining on this, I'm just slightly surprised to see Mr Lucas doing it.
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