Sentences with phrase «mps are rebelling»

Government MPs are rebelling against their parties» policies on a scale not seen since 1945, new research for The Independent has revealed.

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When Cameron barked «weak» across the despatch box, Miliband countered: «What could be weaker than 91 MPs [rebelling]?»

This, I would argue, is not a very difficult dilemma, particularly once leftie Labour MPs also start to rebel against spending cuts on this scale.

A handful of rebel Labour MPs are insisting that they will not take up Theresa May's challenge to vote in favour of Brexit.

Ministers are hoping to win over rebel Labour MPs who threaten a government defeat on the issue of pre-charge detention.

All the real action was taking place in the secretive corridors of Westminster, and especially in Gordon Brown's office, where rebel Labour MPs were being ushered to receive promises about their particular issues.

His move is widely derided as a kamikaze mission for forcing 49 Labour MPs to rebel so soon, many reluctantly compelled to traipse into the division lobby after promising constituents to champion the Remain cause, with the ploy angrily denounced as suicide politics when the stand mustered a mere 101 MPs and precipitated a frontbench resignation and dismissals.

He told the Guardian: «There are quite a lot of Labour MPs who will take the view that if I'm going to rebel against the government, today is not the day to do it.»

Today was just a way of making sure they can team up with the handful of rebel Tory MPs on votes over the customs union and inflict a bit of damage on Theresa May.

The same old MPs who were the leading Maastricht rebels — Sir Bill Cash, Iain Duncan Smith and Bernard Jenkin — are now spearheading the campaign for a «hard Brexit» on the back benches.

The Conservative rebels, joined by Labour MPs, forced the government to abandon the bill even though it had been part of the coalition agreement.

Tory MPs, rebelling in very large numbers, aren't so much rebelling aghainst Cameron but against the Coalition.

Rebel MPs are not opposed to the principle of reforming the welfare system but are worried about its roll - out: claimants are having to wait up to six weeks for their benefits, leaving many unable to buy food and pushed into debt and rent arrears.

Intellectual consistency demands that the practice of «whipping» is condemned, irrespective of the issue at hand and how much one likes or dislikes the position of rebel MPs.

Rebel Tory MPs had been planning to amend the finance bill currently going through parliament to include the tax break.

The division is now underway - come back in 14 minutes time and we'll be able to see quite how many Tory MPs have actually rebelled on the principle of the bill.

That had been opposed by a large number of rebel MPs, buoyed up by support from a number of angry Conservative associations, who defied the whips and opposed the measure in this afternoon's vote.

The vote on second reading will of course go ahead, but the one on which Tory MPs have sought to rebel is now off.

The eurosceptic party, which has 11 MEPs but no MPs in the Commons, is looking to capitalise after nearly half of David Cameron's backbenchers rebelled against his party on Europe.

David Cameron appears to be sympathetic to the 91 Conservative MPs who rebelled over Lords reform...

In a vote to set up foundation trusts in the English NHS, Blair's majority was cut to 35 because many English Labour MPs rebelled or failed to vote; Blair needed 67 Scottish and Welsh MPs to push the trusts through.

The 44 % figure can be broken down further: Conservative MPs have rebelled in 28 % of votes, while Lib Dems have rebelled in 24 % of votes.

And the MPs who have rebelled against Corbyn's leadership clearly represent a majority within the parliamentary party, whereas the MPs who were expelled and went on to form the National Labour Organisation in 1931 and those who left to form the SDP in 1981 were in the minority.

Corbyn, who has rebelled against his party more than 500 times in his career, said MPs would not be «corralled» by whips into voting the same way as the leadership under a more consensual style of management.

There were two incidents when loyal Scottish and Welsh Labour MPs were needed to vote through Labour government policies because so many of their English colleagues rebelled.

Yesterday one of the Labour MPs leading the rebels, John Grogan, said: «The decision on Heathrow is the most significant the cabinet will take in 2009.»

The legislation was given a second reading by MPs, as Labour backed the principle of the reforms, but its progress was halted as the opposition sided with Tory rebels in refusing to back a timetable necessary to prevent the Bill being talked out.

The most famous debates of this kind were on prisoner voting and, of course, the EU referendum motion (in which 81 Tory MPs rebelled).

Jeffrey's attacks on the rebel MPs became more personal, as he went on to suggest those that voted to stop the reform were «unfit» for their jobs and suggested their constituents should «drive them from office» at the next election.

- Certainly my view is that Labour should offer and advocate legislation and a referendum on AV + and expect its MPs to back that as a confidence measure, and that the government and party leadership would advocate a yes (with a small number of rebels no doubt on the no side in the referendum itself).

He was one of eight Lib Dems who abstained altogether in the vote, which saw 21 of the party's 57 MPs - the bulk of its backbench contingent - rebel outright.

Some Tory MPs who had not previously been expected to rebel against the government seemed to express hesitation, or even anger, at the direction of travel.

As the dust settled, Liberal Democrats and Conservatives were issuing explicit threats to each other on television, the prime minister was shouting at his own MPs in public and Tory rebels were being ordered to go home to avoid their furious whips.

Rebel Labour MPs are mulling whether to return to the front bench; though many are waiting to see if the party agrees to elections to the shadow cabinet.

Ministers are set for a showdown with Tory rebels over the immigration bill after it was confirmed a crucial amendment backed by restive backbenchers will be debated in the Commons.The amendment, supported by dozens of Tory MPs, would give ministers rather than judges the final say over whether deportation would breach the human rights of foreign criminals.Commons Speaker John Bercow selected the amendment tabled by Esher and Walton MP Dominic Raab in the first group for debate, meaning there will be time for a vote.

Brown allies have claimed that the rebel MPs are a small group of dissidents who do not represent the Parliamentary Labour Party or party members.

Tory Eurosceptic rebels are stating that Labour MPs are supporting their motion rather than them supporting Labour opportunism.

In addition to the 53 Tory MPs who rebelled on the EU debate here's a list of the thirteen who apparently abstained (either deliberately or because of absence):

Shadow cabinet elections were proposed by the party's deputy leader, Tom Watson, as a way of allowing rebel MPs to return to the frontbench with dignity.

Conservative MPs are currently rebelling less often than Labour MPs (in around 11 % of divisions in the first three sessions of the 2005 parliament, less than half the rate on the government benches) and they are doing so in smaller numbers; although a slightly larger proportion of Conservative parliamentarians has rebelled compared to Labour, few have cast more than a handful of dissenting votes, and even the most rebellious would not find themselves high up the PLP's league table of troublemakers.

Clegg's hopes of reforming the Lords ran into trouble when the government was forced to withdraw a «programme motion» that would have set a timetable for the Lords reform bill, to avert defeat in the face of an alliance of Labour MPs and Tory rebels.

• Coffee House says the 70 names on the letter from Tory rebels opposed to the government's plans for Lords reform do not include other Tory MPs who support the letter but whose names have been withheld.

Brady was among the 91 rebel Tory MPs who voted against the House of Lords reform bill.

Half of all Conservative MPs were elected for the first time at the last election, and Tory backbenchers have rebelled more since it took place than in any previous post-war Parliament.

Some ministers said Downing Street should be nervous that so many Tory MPs from across the party were prepared to rebel.

John Major was consistently opposed by Eurosceptics in his party (known as the Maastricht Rebels — a small minority of MPs before 1997, but enjoying much wider support among party activists).

Most backbench rebels are Conservative — as are most of the very rebellious MPs — but then there are more Conservative MPs.

It's not just Tory MPs who are rebelling over Lords reform.

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.