Sentences with phrase «government back benchers»
For the benefit of Labour Members, the Deputy Prime Minister, the Justice Secretary, the Prime Minister and Government Back Benchers, will the Chancellor tell the House what is today's policy on child benefit?»
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After a period on the back benchers Laws returned to government in 2012 as Minister of State for Schools in the Department of Education and Minster of State in the Cabinet Office.
After the last election, the new prime minister, formerly known for his husky - cuddling and his «greenest government ever» shtick suddenly remembered his back benchers and became, for the most part, a much more traditional kind of Tory.
I have been privileged to work as PPS to four senior Labour ministers in four government departments and now feel that I can make my best contribution to the Labour effort in parliament by concentrating on helping, as a regular back - bencher, to show that Labour remains sound on matters of Defence.
He also told Jo Coburn about his backing for a married couple's tax allowance, which would be supported by fellow Conservative back benchers who «rather feel that they have a government which is not quite Tory enough and this would help, a bit.»
The debate will give us all a chance to reflect on what the rest of the country thought about the Budget — which is: not a lot — and the fact that only three Labour Back Benchers have turned up to support the Government's final Budget suggests that the parliamentary Labour party does not think much of it either.
Although the message may have been softened since to appease Unions and Tory back benchers, there is no doubt about the government's intention and the likelihood that there will be legislative changes at some point to achieve this (if only for the rump of schools left by then who have refused to engage so far).
The government's focus should be on investment in the thousands of early years providers in England, not fiddling with 160 grammar schools to appease a couple of dozen back - benchers.
(6) the necessary but unknown qualities of time and trial - and - error effort to solve such problems, conflict with fulfilling the incentives for becoming a bencher, e.g., becoming a judge or obtaining other government appoints, or formally establishing the fact of one's success and popularity, and giving back to the profession the benefit of one's years of experience, and being re-elected as a bencher;
And a failed innovation might be expensive, and hurt one's reputation, and make one unpopular, which is not the way to get re-elected as a bencher, or become a judge, or get some other government appointment on a law society recommendation, or demonstrably embellish one's career as a successful, popular lawyer giving back to the profession the benefit of one's experience.