The conference voted on the question that the age should be 20 years, and the result was ayes 24, noes 1.
In over two-thirds of those second ballots the "noes"vote has increased more than the"ayes".
The logic of defence does not lie in clever resolutions, or in the ayes exceeding the noes, or in the noes exceeding the ayes.
If that happened, unlike 20 years ago, the noes would win.
I shall resist the temptation to say 17 yeses and seven noes.
I do not think there has been any quarrel between the leading exponents of cither view, the ayes and the noes, in this debate.
There were no ayes, but there were noes.
When they voted on that recommendation, there were six ayes and six noes.
