Sentences with phrase «liberal democrat mp»

So far, the campaign has mainly been backed by Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs.

He told politics.co.uk his policy committee functioned as an «early warning system» against steps taken by the coalition government which «could cause significant problems for a significant number of Liberal Democrat MPs».

However, most Conservatives have historically voted in support of hunting, while a smaller majority of Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs have voted against it.

Despite the foreign secretary's efforts to draw a line under Tory dissatisfaction the chamber remained disturbed - especially when Liberal Democrat MPs asked questions.

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And they are also of course exercised at the fact that it will only be possible for this rise to be enacted if it is supported by Liberal Democrat MPs who all promised prior to the election to oppose any rise in fees.

He had written to all Liberal Democrats MPs to express his concern as a man «living with HIV and with no assurances that I will not have to pay for the medication that keeps me alive in the future» and how he believed that they would have «a desire to protect the most vulnerable and those at the margins of society.»

Liberal Democrat MPs have been bruised by their betrayal over tuition fees and the public animosity it created.

«52,000 people wanted to stand in opposition to the hike in fees, and to remind Liberal Democrat MPs of the pledge they made in the run - up to the election.»

Again, 52,000 people wanted to stand in opposition to the hike in fees, and to remind Liberal Democrat MPs of the pledge they made in the run - up to the election.

But Mr Porter insisted the wider campaign against fees and particularly those Liberal Democrat MPs who fail to rebel against the government would continue unabated.

Liberal Democrat MPs will be whipped into backing gay marriage unlike their Tory counterparts, Nick Clegg insisted this morning.

Unite: Liberal Democrat MPs «insult» man with HIV who raised concerns over the «privatisation» health bill

It was called by Caroline Lucas of the Greens, who will likely be joined by Liberal Democrat MPs.

Tory and Liberal Democrat MPs are growing increasingly vocal in their criticism of government plans to expand snooping powers.

Liberal Democrat MPs, however, scored +14.

At the 2010 election Liberal Democrat MPs, members and voters were all more social liberal than economic liberal (using both terms in their traditional British not American sense) i.e. left rather than right of centre.

When I published the first phase of Project Blueprint in May 2011, David Cameron's first anniversary as Prime Minister, political comment was dominated by the relationship between Conservative and Liberal Democrat MPs following the Alternative Vote referendum.

The government is struggling to craft a motion that satisfies Liberal Democrat MPs — who in many cases owe their seats to anti-Iraq-war defections from Labour in 2005 — as well as little England Tory backbenchers who, nudged by Ukip's anti-intervention stance yesterday, fear that Nigel Farage speaks for their voters better than Cameron does.

Mr Cameron needs the 57 Liberal Democrat MPs to get the NHS and Social Care Bill through Parliament.

«We will also ensure that provision is made for Liberal Democrat MPs to abstain on budget resolutions to introduce transferable tax allowances for married couples without prejudice to the coalition agreement,» it reads.

After joining the coalition poll ratings for the party fell, [67] particularly following the government's support for raising the cap on tuition fees with Liberal Democrat MPs voting 27 for, 21 against and 8 abstaining.

Candidates for the leadership must be MPs and they must be proposed by 10 % of Liberal Democrat MPs — not including themselves.

I draw his attention to section 21 of the coalition agreement, which says in respect of the incident to which I think he is referring, that «arrangements will be made to enable Liberal Democrat MPs to abstain in any vote.»

[88][89] Prominent Liberal Democrat MPs who lost their seats included former leader Charles Kennedy, former deputy leaders Vince Cable and Simon Hughes, and several cabinet ministers.

When Mr Clegg announced the end of the proposals last month, he claimed the Tories had broken the coalition «contract» and that, as a result, his Liberal Democrat MPs could no longer support changes to constituency boundaries for the 2015 general election.

We need to persuade people every day between now and May the seventh that their lives will be better with Liberal Democrat councillors making a difference in their communities, Liberal Democrat MPs fighting their corner in Westminster and Liberal Democrat ministers serving them in government.

The final paragraph, under the heading Education, reads: «If the response of the government to Lord Browne's report [the review into higher education funding] is one that Liberal Democrats can not accept, then arrangements will be made to enable Liberal Democrat MPs to abstain in any vote.»

The Conservatives are introducing a Commons amendment on Wednesday calling for a referendum and are hoping to pick up support from Liberal Democrat MPs and some Labour backbenchers.

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We were surrounded on both sides by Liberal Democrat MPs and a Liberal Democrat party that one in eight people had voted for last time.

Andy Burnham has used a dramatic and bad - tempered Commons debate to «develop an agreement» between Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs over the coalition's NHS reforms.

Nine Liberal Democrat MPs have called on the coalition to «reconsider» its plans to sell off the country's forests.

Clegg told a news conference that Liberal Democrat MPs will in turn block plans made by the Conservatives to redraw the parliamentary boundaries.

Theresa May's personal crusade to expand the number of grammar schools is in serious jeopardy today as senior Tory, Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs unite in an unprecedented cross-party campaign to kill off the prime minister's flagship education reform.

Balls proceeds to make an unusual invitation, not least coming from someone regarded as a tribal Labour figure: he invites Liberal Democrat MPs to form a coalition with Labour now.

8 Liberal Democrat MPs (namely: Loreley Burt, Martin Horwood, Simon Hughes, Chris Huhne, Tessa Munt, Sir Robert Smith, John Thurso, Stephen Williams)

After disastrous showing in May general election, what are ousted Liberal Democrat MPs up to now?

Forty - seven Liberal Democrat MPs were voted out, leaving only eight in the parliamentary party.

Despite the terse statement in the coalition agreement that «arrangements will be made to enable Liberal Democrat MPs to abstain in any vote» on proposals from Browne with which they disagree, numerous backbenchers - including the former leader Menzies Campbell - have let it be known that they plan to rebel if the party performs a U-turn in government on fees.

The bill received strong support in the Commons after most Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs, whose parties both oppose a referendum on the prime minister's timetable, declined to support the measure.

He made his shock announcement to a 5.15 pm meeting of Liberal Democrat MPs at Westminster, saying he had now done all the things he had set out to do for the party.

You see, we will fight Wales» corner just like our Welsh Liberal Democrat MPs have been fighting on their constituents behalves

Tony Blair is really a closet liberal, but has «an infuriatingly imperfect, even muddled idea of what it means», Paddy Ashdown today warns the seven Liberal Democrat MPs who want to succeed him as party leader.

As one former minister pointed out at the meeting last night, most Liberal Democrat MPs are aware of the inconsistency of their position.

A fortnight ago Jonathan Isaby listed the 46 Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs quitting marginal seats.

Dozens of Liberal Democrat MPs lose their seats, leaving a rump of ten or so left.

The coalition government's new efficiency advisor Sir Philip Green is provoking growing disquiet from Liberal Democrat MPs.

Liberal Democrat MPs, who despite much practice are still not very good at hiding their discomfort in the Commons chamber, took a lot of flak from both sides of the House.

A general election campaign seems a peculiar time to discuss a non-vacant position, but ambitious Liberal Democrat MPs are clearly just as uncertain about their party's fortunes as the pollsters.