Sentences with phrase «labour backbenches»

Those on the Labour backbenches most concerned about variable fees and the dangers of marketisation would have found it harder to vote down a progressive taxation reform to pay fairly for increased university access.

The Conservative Party should show itself to be above the mudslinging, unseemly catcalls of the Labour backbenches.

But he implied that much of the hostility directed at him in the media - which has been reflected among the Labour backbenches - was an attempt to get at the prime minister.

There are shrieks of hate towards Osborne from the Labour backbenches.

The Labour backbenches laughed, tepidly.

The newly empowered Labour backbenches are not going to stop asserting themselves now that they have tasted power.

Some on the Labour backbenches are staunchly in favour of a stronger stance on the issue and were relieved by the leader's late arrival to the issue.

Opposition is growing from the Labour backbenches towards proposals making claimants work for their benefits contained in the welfare reform bill.

The biggest post-war rebellion on Lords reform was 47, when Labour backbenches revolted against a white paper in November 1968

12:22 - The standard welfare to - and - fro, a staple of the Labour backbench contributions, is followed by a question about aid money to Rwanda.

One change, a few months ago, meant that the BBBC's members were no longer elected by the whole house but the Tory members by Tory backbench MPs only and Labour representatives by Labour backbench MPs etc..

The government is braced for another Labour backbench rebellion when MPs vote on the final stages of the controversial education bill today and tomorrow.

It is certainly true that part of the Conservative backbench is pro-referendum, but so is part of the Labour backbench.

A series of Labour backbench MPs including Yvette Cooper, Ben Bradshaw and Hilary Benn also backed the government's condemnation of Russia in the Commons yesterday.

A survey of Labour backbench MPs by The Sunday Telegraph found that just under half of those who responded either refused to support Mr Brown or wanted him to step down.

Labour backbench MP David Lammy slammed the Home Office's response saying that the Windrush migrants were already citizens when they came to the country 70 years ago.

The collapsed effort at forcing through the Postal Services Bill against Labour backbench opposition to restructure the Royal Mail is a glaring example of a government backing away from issues it really needs to deal with.

Earlier in the month the Government postponed an announcement of its decision over what to do at Heathrow until the New Year, prompting accusations that it was planning to bow to increasing Labour backbench opposition to the expansion.

And a Labour backbench revolt is brewing.

A Labour Backbench panic is just round the corner - unbelievable.

Not exact matches

Then there's another Commons debate, probably later that week on Thursday 29 October, on a backbench motion proposed by Labour's welfare guru and ex-minister Frank Field with all party backing.

«I have lost confidence in you... But I would serve Labour on the backbenches, because I am Labour to my bones and I will always be Labour.

Some Kremlinologists on Labour's backbenches have also noted current TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady's not - so - subtle hints that she intends to sit this battle out.

Meanwhile, backbench Labour MP John Mann attacked the policy shift, saying it left Labour with a «glaring» contradictory economic policy.

The comments, which came as an aside during a case won by the government, triggered outrage among eurosceptics on the Tory backbenches, who said the UK had been tricked into believing it had an opt - out from the convention when Labour signed up during the Lisbon negotiations.

«After wrecking the economy, Labour spent the last years rubbishing the coalition's growth plan,» the Lib Dems» backbench Treasury spokesperson Stephen Williams said.

The 47 Labour MPs who voted against ranged from backbench MPs like Audrey Wise, Ken Livingstone and Diane Abbott, together with Roger Berry, Ann Clwyd and Gwyneth Dunwoody, through to five holders of office, who consequently either resigned or were sacked from their posts (Alice Mahon, Malcolm Chisholm, Gordon Prentice, Michael Clapham and Neil Gerrard).

Since resigning as Labour leader, Miliband has remained on the backbenches.

A backbench Labour MP John Woodcock asked Corbyn to clarify his position on Iraq.

A political archeologist looking for traces of the edifice that was once New Labour message discipline could extract it from the bitten lips of former ministers now on the backbench, repressing the urge to attack their leader.

But a lot of this is Labour's doing, since as long as Ed Miliband's party refuses to sign up for the government motion, government backbench doubters have that much more power to extract concessions.

He knows that while I won't return, I will do everything I can from the backbenches to put Labour into government, and Ed Miliband into 10 Downing Street.

The Tory backbenches erupted in support, pointing in unison to a small group of cowering Labour figures to the prime minister's right.

Field went on to become one of the Labour government's most vocal critics from within the party on the backbenches.

In the Commons, Chi Onwurah (Labour, rather unsubtle bright red top) asks yet another backbench question about social housing headaches and the bedroom tax.

This powerful backbench committee meets weekly with the Prime Minister to communicate the mood of backbench Labour MP's to the Party leadership.

The heckling from both Labour and Conservative MPs was so intense that Speaker John Bercow had to plead with the backbenches to stop their «organised barracking».

Chris Bryant is a Labour MP languishing on the backbenches who is not reluctant to seek publicity.

But his forte, arguably, is running backbench campaigns - such as his successful push during the 1980s to scrap the Dock Labour Scheme.

Dennis Skinner is the ongest serving member of Labour's executive by a long way, having represented his fellow backbench MPs on the executive since 1999, and having previously served for twenty years as a constituency party representative.

That's why for the first time in over a century, this Government has voluntarily given up its power to control all business in the Commons by establishing a Backbench Business Committee — a decision Labour consistently ducked and, astonishingly, still seem to oppose.

Were it not for the disarray in the Labour Party and the unpopularity of the Lib Dems, the fraught relationship between backbench Conservative MPs and the Leader would be significantly worse and the number of letters sent to Graham Brady would be rapidly approaching 46.

It noted that «Labour MPs dissent more often than Conservatives; they dissent in great numbers than Conservatives; and they dissent on more issues than Conservatives» — and concluded that «judging from their current voting behaviour, there is the real possibility that any future Labour Government will face significant backbench dissent».

Osborne's fuel duty commitment follows intense backbench pressure and is his riposte to the promise last week by the Labour leader, Ed Miliband, to freeze electricity prices for 20 months after the 2015 election.

I do find it astonishing that 11 years into a failed Labour Government, Labour is regularly able to put up backbench MPs who openly hate the Tories with a passion - people like McShane, Kaufman, Ruane, Pound and Thornberry.

Khan was chairman of Labour's backbench home affairs committee, so we've often talked about issues such as identity cards and anti-terror laws.

The Labour leader was attacked by backbench MPs and even members of his shadow cabinet after the party lost seats in England and Wales and were humiliated in Scotland, where they finished a distant third.

The Chancellor knows that if he mounts a challenge to the Portuguese bail - out and the European Commission's greed, Labour — as well as the Conservative backbenches — will be cheering him on.

As the backbench MP Jon Cruddas, perhaps the party's most thoughtful figure on the subject of race and immigration, has said: «If Labour becomes the voice for this sour, shrill, hopeless politics it will die.

The bill itself may also prove to be a true test of how in control the prime minister is of his own party given the level of opposition among backbench MPs and his weakened position in the latest ICM poll, published yesterday, in which 63 per cent of voters said Labour would be better off with a new leader.