Sentences with phrase «mps say power»

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MPs and peers say parliament should be given the authority to amend the home secretary's powers if and when the need arises.

Britain is an asymmetric place which already has unbalanced power arrangements: in London, in Wales, in Scotland, in England, in built - up areas now agreeing city deals, the breadth and depth of devolution are all different, but their MPs have the same say in Westminster.

-- Tell us (as someone above said) how much of his time is spent actually communicating with his constituents compared to sitting around in Westminster making wet speeches — Listen to the people and get together with supposedly like minded MPs and get rid of Brown by the powers they have.

McDonnell says that ordinary Labour members will have more power, however much MPs may resist.

David Cameron is under fresh pressure over Europe after 95 Tory MPs said parliament should have powers to veto laws from Brussels.

Last month, east London MP, Stella Creasy, who was a target of leftwing anger last year over her Commons vote in favour of bomb attacks on Syria, said there was «emphasis by some in these groups on controlling the levers of power to select — or deselect — MPs and party officials» and concluded: «Groups like Momentum now appear to be draining the very energy from our political process they claimed to be promoting.»

But can Burnham, the MP for Leigh in Greater Manchester, who says he already has the names of the required 35 MPs willing to nominate his candidacy, be the man to get Labour back in power in just five years» time?

The main report by the joint committee of peers and MPs published on Monday broadly welcomes the coalition's proposals, but calls for a post-legislative referendum and says «a concordat» will have to be agreed between the two elected houses on their respective powers.

The Tory Party Chairman has said it «can't be right» for Scottish MPs to vote on English matters if powers are devolved across the border.

Peter Willsman, the secretary of CLPD and member of Labour's ruling National Executive Committee, said it was «undemocratic for MPs and MEPs to have powers to so tightly restrict the range of candidates».

The Prime Minister has said measures to address the issue of MPs with seats in the devolved nations being able to vote on policies that do not apply in their constituencies must go «in tandem» with the process of granting fresh powers to Holyrood.

This will provide MPs with the opportunity to debate the current lack of protection for pubs, the fact that local communities have so little say over the future of their local, despite clear «moral ownership» of their local pubs - and will also suggest ways in which the planning system can be changed to ensure that local residents have the powers they need to protect their local pubs.

The three million affordable houses promised by Gordon Brown when he came to power need to be reassessed because of the financial crisis, MPs said today.

Senior Tory MPs said May would do everything in her power to hold on to Rudd, not only to shield herself from blame for immigration policy when she was home secretary but also because a resignation or sacking would harm the Tories in the run - up to Thursday's polls.

Mr Duncan Smith said there was a danger that some MPs would end up «dealing with the devil» as Jeremy Corbyn was waiting in the wings to seize power.

Plans to beef up the powers of backbench MPs may not become law before a general election, Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said.

Mr Salmond said SNP MPs would «vote for more powers» in the event of a «No» vote, but insisted: «We're anticipating a «Yes» vote.»

The Commons» liaison committee, made up of select committee chairmen, says MPs have the power to scrutinise financial matters but are not doing so with the detail required.

With only one energy company buying back energy at the same price as it sells it, MPs said the government should consider a «feed - in - tariff» where all power companies buy back energy at a fixed price.

Jeremy Corbyn says Labour against giving ministers broad powers when MPs vote on repeal bill, calling for «total accountability»

But distrust of the UK as the former colonial power of the country, as it is in other developing nations, made achieving that role difficult, said the MPs.

But senior frontbenchers say the price of working with Mr Corbyn would be the return of shadow cabinet elections, giving MPs the power to elect a substantial number of Labour's top team.

Writing in his weekly column in The Daily Telegraph, he said Conservative MPs would be «utterly nuts» to desert the party as they simply risked handing power to Labour at the next general election.

House of Commons leader William Hague said the planned devolution of more powers to the Scottish government creates «imbalances» that do not favour English MPs.

Asked by MPs this summer whether Britain remained a «full spectrum» power, Cameron said it most certainly was, flatly contradicting evidence to the Commons defence committee by the heads of the navy, army and RAF.

Frank Field is one of these people who lots of people say is great until he is actually given any power, he manages both to agitate Labour MPs favourable towards welfare by coming out with solutions to time limit benefits and add workfare requirements, equally he is constantly saying that JSA rates are far too low as well as demanding pensions at high rates for all, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown both came to the conclusion that his proposals on the State Pension would have been hugely expensive - his pension plans could not all be funded by savings on the unemployed and would probably lead to a huge swelling in the welfare budget.

Conservative MP Bernard Jenkin said he was «mightily relieved» Scotland had voted No, but urged Mr Cameron to engage with MPs on the «English question», saying: «You can hear Alex Salmond teeing things up for the next row with Westminster because we've really no idea what these promises of extra powers actually are or what is meant by honouring the Barnett Formula.»

PM likely to concede ground over powers that will allow ministers to tweak laws as they are transposed from EU to UK law, MPs say

The paper also reported that a «kamikaze» group of right - wing Tory MPs said they could be willing to risk handing power to Jeremy Corbyn to kill off moves to reverse Brexit.

The government said it would only let MPs have a vote on May's final Brexit deal on a «take it or leave it basis», despite Labour, the Scottish National party and some Tories demanding greater power to order a rethink after two years of talks.

Mr Huhne rejected Tory MPs» demands for a Europe referendum and the repatriation of some powers from Brussels, saying the priority was to end the eurozone crisis.

But Sir Christopher said in his report that the new authority did not have sufficient powers and should be made responsible for MPs» pay and pensions, as well as expenses, and be given tougher enforcement and investigation powers, among other changes.

Ofsted should be given powers to inspect organisations that run chains of academies, says a report from a cross-party committee of MPs.

It is said the new MPS will produce the same power (190kW), but techno - boffins have been working to improve on getting all that power through the front wheels with more success.

Decommissioning Sellafield nuclear power station in the UK will cost taxpayers at least # 70 billion as costs hit «astonishing levels,» senior MPs said yesterday.

The cross-party group of MPs said it shared the nuclear industry's concern that it would take more than two years to hammer out a new deal for regulating nuclear power stations and trade.

As MPs gather on Monday for the Second Reading of the Data Protection Bill, Chair of the Bar Andrew Walker QC said: «The Data Protection Bill will give the Information Commissioner's Office sweeping powers to access legally privileged material.

Some Conservative MPs, who will have their say on the Bill when it returns to the House of Commons in two weeks» time, had argued that giving guarantees to EU citizens in Britain would reduce the UK's bargaining power in negotiations over the status of its own nationals living in Member States.