Sentences with phrase «other conservative mps»

However, Greening and other Conservative MPs were accused of «having their fingers in their ears» by the former shadow education secretary Lucy Powell, who said the public were «fed up to the back teeth» of cuts to public services.

Asked what his message was to other Conservative MPs who were looking to him following his defection to Ukip, Carswell said, «They're let down by a party that thinks it's OK to smear good people like Mark Reckless.»

Another senior backbencher, Nicola Blackwood — who chairs the Commons science committee — added: «I have joined other Conservative MPs asking the Chancellor to look again at the PIP proposals, because I have always believed that even in difficult fiscal times we must do our utmost to protect the most vulnerable.»

It comes not long after two other Conservative MPs (Richard Ottaway and Anne Main) successfully fought motions from their associations over their continuing as the parliamentary candidate for their constituencies - although in this case I understand that there is no connection with allegations about the MP's use of parliamentary allowances.

Today Ms Morgan, who lost her Cabinet role when Theresa May became Prime Minister, indicated that she and some other Conservative MPs would vote against the proposals in their current form.

All 77 Ministers and Whips were instructed to abstain, but all other Conservative MPs had a free vote on a one - line whip.

Mr Cameron's personal claims are likely to put him in a strong position to root out problems uncovered among other Conservative MPs.

They say that the bill «threatens to pile a constitutional crisis on top of an economic crisis» and that they hope other Conservative MPs will support them «in giving this bill the full and unrestricted scrutiny it deserves» (ie, voting against the timetable motion).

Other Conservative MPs welcomed the proposal however and even urged the home secretary to extend the powers to all British citizens.

A Christian MP has explained to Premier why he has joined forces with 18 other Conservative MPs to urge... More

Not exact matches

The leadership committee comprises eight members of the national council, including Walsh, plus 15 others, including former MPs John Williamson, Loyola Hearn and Lois Brown, current MP Diane Finley and Irving Gerstein, senator and chair of the Conservative Fund.

The Scottish MP, who chairs Westminster's All Party Parliamentary Group on Infant Feeding & Inequalities, has already secured cross-party support from MPs in the Conservatives and Labour as well as other parties in the UK Parliament.

Lose that and a Conservative leader can be removed by their own MPs more easily than in any other party.

The Conservatives got theirs out of the way quickly, Theresa May being handed a coronation in July after two rivals were defeated in ballots of MPs and the other two pulled out.

Several other MPs, particularly on the Conservative backbenches, went on to ask Corbyn a variation of Woodcock's question.

The vote showed that, with full Conservative and DUP support, coupled with that of a few MPs from other parties, a future majority for an EU referendum could depend on just a handful of Labour MPs - many fewer than are known to support an EU referendum.

But several other sitting conservative MPs in London lost their seats.

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.

The government stepped in amid fears that an amendment designed to give straight couples the right to civil partnerships, planned by Tim Loughton, the former children's minister, and two other Tory MPs, could disrupt the equal marriage bill, which is opposed by many Conservatives.

Before last night Europe accounted for just 5 % of the Conservative rebellions so far this Parliament but 35 % of all the rebellious votes that had been cast by Conservative MPs — with European rebellions more than double the size of the other revolts against the whip.

He will need to rebuild some of his links with us Conservative Eurosceptics if he wants other MPs to back any of his proposals, second any of his motions and help him get some airtime in a Parliament which requires numbers to achieve things.

Shortly after being elected to Parliament, Philp became the first of the 2015 Conservative intake to be elected by other MPs to the influential Treasury Select Committee.

Other pool and beachside reads for MPs — and probably not many others — include The Times Guide to the House of Commons, The History of the Conservative Party, The History of the Labour Party and How Parliament Works, according to the survey.

There are a number of other eurosceptic Conservative MPs and councillors who must now be considering their positions.

Every Conservative in this hall, we all know, individual MPs do not succeed on their own, they do by standing on the shoulders of others.

Fifteen Conservatives and eight other MPs, including three from Labour, voted to provide for a personal income tax allowance transfer between married couples during a debate on the report stage of the finance bill last night.

Case 2 The local Conservative (or could be Labour, Liberal, Green, UKIP etc) MP has been caught out in a scandal, along with several other MPs.

That conveniently ignores the fact that this was a free vote on a conscience issue and inevitably Conservative MPs, and indeed those from other parties, will have differing views and will be accountable to their own constituents.

Carswell's defection to Ukip has caused worry among senior Conservatives that other MPs from the party could be about to follow suit.

Among other results, Lord Ashcroft's polls suggested that the growth in SNP support would translate into more than 50 seats; [124] that there was little overall pattern in Labour and Conservative Party marginals; [125] that the Green Party MP Caroline Lucas would retain her seat; [126] that both Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg and UKIP leader Nigel Farage would face very close races to be elected in their own constituencies; [127] and that Liberal Democrat MPs would enjoy an incumbency effect that would lose fewer MPs than their national polling implied.

The election led to an increase in the number of female MPs, to 191 (29 % of the total, including 99 Labour; 68 Conservative; 20 SNP; 4 other) from 147 (23 % of the total, including 87 Labour; 47 Conservative; 7 Liberal Democrat; 1 SNP; 5 other).

... and an increase in the number who are gay... It provoked much comment when David Gold became the first openly gay Conservative candidate in 2001; since then only three Conservative MPs have come out as gay, but Nick Boles (pictured) is set to enter Parliament as MP for the ultra-safe Grantham and Stamford and at least half a dozen other openly gay candidates are poised to win seats this time.

On Tuesday, I tabled a Private Members Bill on petrol prices, supported by many other Conservative backbenchers, as well as MPs from Northern Ireland, and Scotland.

The others were Lord Norman Warner, a former Health Minister and two Conservative MPs elected in 2015, Kelly Tolhurst and William Wragg.

However, she and 47 other Labour MPs ignored interim leader Harriet Harman's orders to abstain on the main second reading vote, which the Conservatives won 308 to 124, majority 184.

In The Winterton's Unmuzzled, the daughter of the two former Conservative MPs states: «Whatever Dad's other faults, he is devoid of snobbery... He was not the kind of up - his - arse Tory MP — and I have met a few in my time, some of them so far up their arses they couldn't find their way out again.»

«What I want is for Conservative MPs, as with other MPs, to come out and explain why they claimed what they claimed, to admit to any mistakes, if there have been mistakes, and collectively to say «Look, this system was wrong, we took part in it, we operated it»,» he said.

The NUS has high hopes that other Tories might join Davis, and they claim four Conservative MPs signed the famous NUS pledge.

Ms Dorries was one of a number of Conservative MPs named in emails from Gordon Brown's special adviser Damian McBride to other Labour activists about fictitious smear stories to be spread on the internet.

Today's votes on tuition fees will see a strange alliance of such people - MPs on the Lib Dem left, and on the Conservative right, but also other Coal - sceptics too.

«The Liberal Democrats are likely to lose out more than the other main parties because their seats are yellow islands in a sea of red or blue; changing the boundaries is more likely to bring in hostile territories, their majorities tend to be smaller than Labour or Conservative MPs and their Lib Dems trade a lot on incumbency and constituency service.

It predicted the Conservatives would have 305 MPs, Labour would have 255 and the Lib Dems 61, while others, including the SNP, would have 29.

With the attendance of 34 activists, Boris Johnson, three Conservative MPs and the leader of the Conservative group on the London Assembly, we disappointed activists from other parties who were counting on a poor show from the Conservatives.

The parliamentary majority required in the Commons after 6 May is a majority of pluralists — of MPs committed to deep political reform, willing to work with pluralists in other parties, and ready to face down the tribalists and conservatives on all sides.

The Speaker is a neutral figure in Parliament, so Mr Bercow is no longer a member of the Conservative Party as he was before his election to the role (by all the other MPs).

Theresa May has won the backing of four times as many MPs as any other candidate for the Conservative Party leadership, a survey by ITV News shows.

Chaired by Conservative MP Neil Parish, this meeting is always well - attended by all leading welfare organisations including Kennel Club, Dogs Trust, British Veterinary Association (BVA), RSPCA, Blue Cross, as well as other MPs, and many other representatives of the dog world.