Sentences with phrase «labour backbenchers»

Rosie Winterton has been a brilliant Chief Whip and friend of Labour backbenchers.

It's staggering that the Labour backbenchers just keeled over and accepted such a vague promise.

«Something to remember about the 50p tax rate is that it's primarily meant to be red meat for Labour backbenchers and core voters.

Last Monday the Prime Minister announced the long - awaited inquiry into the war in an attempt to shore up his premiership and appease Labour backbenchers.

Some Labour backbenchers regard Momentum as a party within a party, organising its members to put pressure on MPs from other wings of the party to fall in behind Corbyn's line on certain issues, such as rejecting military action in Syria.

The No campaign also included a large number of Labour backbenchers; upon the division on a pro-EC White Paper about the renegotiation, 148 Labour MPs opposed their own government's measure, whereas only 138 supported it and 32 abstained.

However, due to organisation by pro-EEC Labour backbenchers, Heath was able to steer his policy successfully through Parliament.

I understand that Labour backbenchers will be given a free vote.

Cameron will also have noticed that in last night's debate on the fiscal responsibility bill — the one committing the government to halving the deficit within four years — only two Labour backbenchers spoke, and they both opposed it.

Turner won the support of some Labour backbenchers, who said his willingness to consider taxes was a step in the right direction.

Two senior Labour backbenchers, both ex-ministers, one of them (Patricia Hewitt) who can be labelled as a Blairite, the other (Geoff Hoon) who can't, have broken cover.

Fresh from their resounding success in defeating AV, many Conservative MPs have started talking to Labour backbenchers who also voted No in the referendum trying to form a new alliance to defeat the proposals to reform the House of Lords, announced by Nick Clegg yesterday.

Speaking to the Guardian in his first interview since the attempted coup by Labour backbenchers, the prime minister made an unprecedentedly frank series of observations on his time in office, reflecting that the recent weeks have been the worst of his political life.

He will sit among the Labour backbenchers, but he is not one of them.

Several senior Labour backbenchers, including MP George Howarth called on Brown to step down.

Labour backbenchers, fearful of losing their jobs, have been plotting and scheming for too long.

A large number of Labour backbenchers, as well as numerous Labour luminaries like Neil Kinnock and former Education Secretary Estelle Morris, made known their opposition to the proposals and published an alternative white paper.

They are in disarray on this issue, with over 50 Labour backbenchers backing a Commons motion opposing Government policy.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown battles Labour backbenchers and Conservative «cynicism» in an attempt to replace the current first - past - the - post electoral voting system.

These arrogant wasters did not care what Cameron or Clegg had to say with Skinner walking out before Cameron spoke (no suprise) and most Labour backbenchers leaving before Clegg spoke how rude!

The Conservatives have accused Labour backbenchers of «hypocrisy» for failing to vote against government cuts for second degrees.

Although the three main parties are in favour of keeping some form of nuclear deterrent, many Labour backbenchers are against it, and the Liberal Democrats believe the government should delay a decision for several years.

The sheer glee of Labour backbenchers as Brown ran rings around David Cameron in PMQs revealed quite how much the PM's hold on Downing Street, so nearly prised from his grip last spring, has been strengthened in recent weeks.

His comments come after two Labour backbenchers last night openly called for Mr Prescott to resign as deputy prime minister, in an outbreak of hostilities that has been brewing ever since news broke of his affair with his diary secretary.

That is self - interested in the extreme — and what Labour backbenchers should be concentrating on is in helping Britain through the recession.

JEREMY Corbyn's closest Commons ally has blamed «sulky» Labour backbenchers refusing to cheer for their leader for yesterday's battering at PMQs.

The decision to apply for a job elsewhere is an extraordinary move for a sitting MP, which some Labour backbenchers said indicated a mood of pessimism about the party's electoral prospects.

Meanwhile, a survey of Labour backbenchers by this newspaper discloses that almost half of those who responded either refused to support Mr Brown or wanted him to step down.

Diane Abbott has blamed Jeremy Corbyn's struggles at Prime Minister's Questions on «sulking» Labour backbenchers who refuse to rally behind the leader.

Another motion attacks the Government for deciding its position before the consultation exercise and deplores moves to deny Labour backbenchers a free vote.

On one side, the Ukip leader, senior Conservative and Labour backbenchers, millions of activists, George Galloway and a luminous green tie.

Just 22 per cent of the Labour backbenchers polled by the BBC said they would back their party's official policy.

His announcement has been welcomed by some Labour backbenchers - Stephen Pound said it was a «dignified statement», although warned it could have come earlier.

Downing Street said it was looking for a pragmatic solution - however, cabinet ministers have been outspoken against any idea of an exemption, and Labour backbenchers have also warned that they can not accept the new discrimination laws being watered down.

Labour backbenchers including Gavin Shuker, Emily Thornberry and Tom Blenkinsop were among those adding pressure to Mr Clegg on the issue.

From the look on the faces of some Labour backbenchers, they haven't had this much fun in years.

But Labour backbenchers face a difficult dilemma over HS2 when the issue is voted on in the Commons this Thursday.

Labour backbenchers were heard to heckle his «rank hypocrisy», however.

He dealt with the unusually effective combined attacks from Labour backbenchers with aplomb.

Several Labour backbenchers are also opposed and Ms Smith has been meeting one - on - one with her critics in order to wield off a rebellion.

Paul Truswell, whose Commons motion attacking the bill's proposals has attracted over 60 signatures from Labour backbenchers, said there was a «tremendous amount of concern» about the bill.

Many Labour backbenchers are set to vote against the # 20 billion plan to replace Trident while two prominent frontbenchers have already resigned to vote against the government today.

Labour backbenchers moan.

A bon viveur, writer, journalist and lawyer, he was one of the leading members of the awkward squad on Labour backbenchers from 1997 to 2010.

However, both the Conservative party and Liberal Democrats are opposed to the plans, with speculation mounting last night any decision could be now delayed following prime minister Gordon Brown's decision to meet Labour backbenchers opposed to the scheme.

Initially, at least, the Labour backbenchers were offering fervent support to their chancellor as he wound up the electoral pressure.

Persuading a handful of frustrated Labour backbenchers to rebel is always going to be difficult, however, and the suspicion of the Tories» partisan motives that unites Labour and the Lib Dems will probably be strong enough to block them.

The meeting came hours after Labour rebel Frank Field apologised in the Commons for personally attacking Gordon Brown, amid concessions from the prime minister which prompted widespread relief from Labour backbenchers.

As one of the few major policies of today's Budget that had not been leaked, Labour backbenchers cheered the announcement as the Conservatives were heard to gasp in surprise.

«Me and a few other Labour backbenchers picked up on it,» one of them told me.