They say that if the Government should win, it would be by only two or three points.

The government won the vote by a majority of one.

The government may win this battle but they've already lost the war.

The Government could have scored a few points and won some political friends.

But that wasn't it exactly, because the governments always won.

Yet there seems to be a consensus that the Government cannot win.

The government won by 322 votes to 298, and remained in power for another two years.

In both cases, it seems far from certain that the Government will win convictions.

And many of them are not prepared to believe that the Government could win in a fair election.

As a result, the Government easily won the substantive question by 339-299.