Sentences with phrase «dem frontbencher»

Meanwhile frontbencher Julie Bishop said the government will lay out its economic and tax strategies in the May budget.

Liberal frontbencher Bruce Billson says the suspension of live exports to Indonesia is not a «durable strategy».

The Coalition has already committed to dropping the Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB) trigger to scrutinise rural property from $ 244m to $ 15m and National party frontbencher Barnaby Joyce has been a trenchant critic of the sale of Cubbie Station to Chinese investors earlier this year.

We meet regularly with Ministers and have been working hard to develop and maintain a relationship with the Opposition (this year we contributed to, and were mentioned in, Iain Duncan - Smith's Centre for Social Justice report, and met with other leading Tory frontbenchers including Tim Loughton, Maria Miller and Michael Gove).

Massed against him on one side are the ranks of MPs who opposed a winner isolated in a tiny minority in his own Shadow Cabinet, frontbenchers contradicting their leader at will after reluctantly joining his team.

I am not best placed to judge these matters, but my female friends tell me that Gordon Brown is not as attractive physically as Nick Clegg (although a former colleague who worked for a Lib Dem frontbencher strongly argued the opposite).

The former Lib Dem frontbencher had to resign from the party's leadership contest in 2006 after admitting a relationship with a male prostitute.

The party allowed its more enthusiastic supporters, and some senior frontbenchers, to put out the message that the totemic Tory councils of Wandsworth and Westminster were in play, while Barnet was already in the bag.

Others who are vulnerable, according to his research, include shadow education secretary Angela Rayner and fellow frontbenchers Karl Turner and Sarah Champion.

The frontbencher and former health secretary beat Bury South MP Ivan Lewis and interim mayor Tony Lloyd in the race, meaning he will go forward to stand at the election in May 2017.

«As part of this Hattersley wrote a book «Choose Freedom», which was a decent attempt, particularly given the constraints on a very senior serving frontbencher, to popularise in general politics the ideas of John Rawls, Tawney and Crosland, rooting social democratic politics in a positive conception of liberty.

Senior Labour frontbenchers today sought to weaponise Boris Johnson as they stepped up the party's attempts to persuade its traditional supporters to back the Remain campaign.

Frontbenchers of all parties will be hoping the lobbying bill will placate public anger after the latest wave of scandals hit Westminster this spring.

Like rats in London, in the West Country you are never more than ten feet from a Conservative frontbencher.

Nor is Labour frontbenchers Andy Burnham and Luciana Berger expressing interest in Osborne's Greater Manchester and Merseyside Metro mayors silencing grumbling on their own benches in Parliament or dissident Tories concerned the centralisation of influence will weaken genuine localism.

Frontbenchers and backbenchers threatening to vote against triggering the Article 50 countdown, shadow business secretary Clive Lewis among them, would challenge what's left of Jeremy Corbyn's shredded authority in a rudderless party.

Bad frontbencher of the week: Ken Clarke.

Media coverage is not, of course, the only way of judging the impact of frontbenchers although Iain Dale's «Media Tarts Lists» are always worth a scan.

He is a protest politician, trapped in the body of a frontbencher.

Good frontbencher of the week: Nick Herbert.

Frontbenchers have already been emailed with a reminder of their duty to respect the leadership's wishes, it is understood.

His comments are punctuated by sarcastic cheers from Labour MPs as Cabinet frontbencher appear.

One senior Labour frontbencher said: «Trump is the most grotesque manifestation of populism driven by discontent worldwide.

Labour has been forced to insist its position on Brexit remains unchanged after frontbencher Emily Thornberry suggested the party was in favour of staying in the customs union.

Former Labour leadership contender Owen Smith - who was sacked from Mr Corbyn's frontbench after breaking from party policy to call for a second referendum - seized on the apparent slip of the tongue by Ms Thornberry, saying it was the latest in a string of inconsistencies on Brexit from Labour frontbenchers.

Again, this is a false criticism, as Westminster already produces two types of MPs: they are called frontbenchers and backbenchers.

The frontbencher also warned that the party could «die» unless it unites behind whoever is declared leader on 24 September.

In practice, the privileges of the Official Opposition go far further, for example through frontbenchers» established right to speak at the start and end of most debates, and to intervene during oral question times (including Prime Minister's Questions), plus an expectation that the Speaker will select important opposition amendments for debate at report stage of government bills.

The pro-Israel frontbencher has since sparked fury among Conservative colleagues, with claims she was trying to conduct her own «freelance foreign policy».

Liberal Democrat frontbencher Alistair Carmichael added that the Conservative language was «becoming increasingly hostile and unsavoury».

Hence when Labour was in government the Liberal Democrats could choose topics for three opposition days per session, and enjoyed rights to some (albeit fewer) interventions by frontbenchers during debates and question times.

As prime minister David Cameron works on the finishing touches of his much - awaited speech on Europe and immigration he is under considerable pressure from his backbenchers and some frontbenchers to signal that he is ready to campaign to leave the European Union.

Former deputy leader Anas Sarwar and a clutch of frontbenchers including Jenny Marra, Iain Gray and Jackie Baillie are among those topping the regional lists for Scottish Labour at the Holyrood elections.

They are happy for junior frontbenchers to address issues of immigration and Europe etc but the leader should be focused on the «conversion issues».

And there is the revelation that, in February 2010, David Cameron was already pressing for the whole parliamentary party, including frontbenchers, to be part of the» 22.

14:13 - «I suspect Mr Jeremy Hunt is not long for this world politically, but it's going to get worse for Cameron,» Labour frontbencher Chris Bryant just tweeted.

Opposition frontbenchers will accuse the government of putting «political advantage» ahead of democracy when they debate the coalition's voter registration plans later.

The Labour party will face «dire consequences» and lose «hundreds of councillors» if Jeremy Corbyn is elected, a senior frontbencher warned last night.

A Labour frontbencher has sensationally accused Jeremy Corbyn of trying to use his father to «bully» him.

The ruling means Mr Corbyn will compete for the party leadership with former frontbencher Owen Smith.

Liberal Democrat frontbencher Norman Lamb, who had asked for the list of guests, said: «Many of the names on this list reveal the frivolity and celebrity - obsessed nature of the Blair administration.

Mr Clarke, a former chancellor, is the only Conservative frontbencher with experience of trying to form a coalition government.

The two most senior figures in the Welsh Conservatives will return to the matter which has so divided them in recent months and led to the sacking of four Tory frontbenchers.

A number of frontbenchers think Labour should take from the Brexit vote that people want stronger controls on immigration.

But the party's frontbencher in the Lords, Baroness Morgan, says the borrowing powers the bill would give to the Welsh Government are significant.

Cameron argued that the coalition was «making progress» on appointing women to top jobs, as almost a quarter of Tory cabinet ministers and one in five frontbenchers are women.

The final list of the 37 pre-election Conservative frontbenchers who have not been made ministers

He faces a leadership challenge from former frontbencher Owen Smith, the result of which will be announced on 24 September.

The embattled left - winger faces another leadership contest after he was challenged by former Labour frontbenchers Owen Smith and Angela Eagle.

A minister in another department is convinced that some of his officials are in regular contact with Labour frontbenchers.