Sentences with phrase «after backbencher»

But after his backbenchers and backwoodsmen made plain this was one thing they would not wear, Cameron threw both the Tory machine and the considerable Tory bankbook at the operation.

Not exact matches

The Commons exchanges also saw Labour backbencher John Woodcock say shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry was «not fit to stand at that despatch box» after she warned many foreign parties were now acting like the Assad regime.

The 60 - year - old backbencher suffered a heart attack last year after becoming embroiled in the expenses scandal, having unsuccessfully put in a # 50 claim for «dog - minding».

12:27 - After a question on knife crime, Rob Flello - the Labour backbencher - raises the European arrest warrant.

After appointing Mullin to junior office again in 2003 the Prime Minister discovered that as a backbencher he had voted against the Iraq War.

After centuries of macho oneupmanship, a Conservative backbencher is now proposing ending the system of primogeniture for good.

That riles Labour backbenchers; Miliband was perfectly accurate, after all.

Labour backbencher Steve Rotherham called for the original inquest, which concluded on the advice of its pathologist that it need not consider what occurred after 15:15 on the day, to be quashed.

Lib Dems withdrew their support for the reform after Tory backbenchers made the Lib Dems» favoured Lords reform proposals impossible to achieve.

Their exchanges will be judged a success by Labour backbenchers, after Miliband effectively riled Cameron to back up negative impressions about the shortness o the prime minister's temper.

Backbenchers and political journalists piled the praise on Eagle after today's performance, while a shadow cabinet member suggested that many Labour MPs preferred Eagle's «confrontational» style to Jeremy Corbyn's «calm» approach.

After three electoral victories and 13 years in office, New Labour had lost its appeal due to the legacy of the Iraq war, a series of burning scandals and endless backbenchers» rebellions.

Cameron has made serious inroads on the task of keeping his party on board by always meeting groups of backbenchers in the Commons after Wednesday's PMQs, and regularly holding drinks receptions for them in No10.

After the Labour party suspended but did not expel Ken Livingstone, backbencher Wes Streeting was...

The bearded Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn criticised the Tory benches and their position on Human Rights and their support for a «Bill of Rights», making an emphatic argument that MPs should, «take a moment to praise the European Court of Human Rights & European Court of Justice and stop listening to the neanderthal voices behind him [the Tory backbenchers] in what was a very important step in improving the human rights after the second world war.»

Nick Clegg's defence of human rights came after weeks of attack from the prime minister and assorted Conservative backbenchers, as right - wingers sought to use the riots as a trigger to renegotiate European human rights law.

Backbenchers on the Commons» defence committee painted a bleak picture of Afghanistan's future after international forces finally hand over full control to the Afghan National Security Force in 2015.

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.

The new government's majority is also smaller than the outgoing coalition's and the party's leaders will face a growing challenge from rebellious backbenchers, just as John Major, elected in similar circumstances, did after 1992.

Mark Reckless, a leading eurosceptic among the 81 Conservative backbenchers who defied David Cameron last month, said an EU referendum was a matter of «when» and not «if» after the Tory revolt.

The prime minister has enjoyed unusual acclaim from his party's eurosceptic backbenchers after refusing to commit Britain to fiscal integration measures now being pursued by all other EU member states.

Most telling of all was the lack of hostility from Tory backbenchers, which is significant and noteworthy after what has been a terrible few weeks for the prime minister.

After Speaker John Bercow finally saw sense and let Labour backbencher John Mann raise the issue in the Commons, the stage was set for what could have been a constructive exchange of views about how best to restore public trust.

Tory backbencher Philip Davies said: «I find it absolutely extraordinary that a Cabinet minister can stay in his post after being so openly defiant of the prime minister over government policy.»

The outspoken backbencher took to Twitter just minutes after the former welfare - slasher sensationally quit from his role as Work and Pensions Secretary.

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.

A Tory backbencher shouts three nil as Cameron sits down after the third answer.

But if, after this vote, backbenchers and parliament are stronger against the executive, the freedoms of groups to associate together are weaker.

After Number 10's announcement that Conservative ministers would abstain, it turned into a fight between Labour and the Lib Dems on the one side and Conservative backbenchers (not all of them, but a significant number) on the other.

The Guardian: «The husband - and - wife Tory backbenchers were last year found to have breached House of Commons rules after claiming # 80,000 in parliamentary allowances for a flat owned by a trust their children control.

12.30 pm: Lots of laughter in Commons after Speaker says to Labour benches that they should not jeer at Tory backbenchers (Harriet Baldwin) who support the Government.

A day after David Cameron bounced through a vote to end a long - standing tradition by which Tory backbenchers meet each week, the consensus is that this will come back to bite him.

After all, reducing the power of Tory backbenchers would mean the John Redwoods and the Bill Cashs of the world have less influence over the prime minister.

It's a sop to Liberal Democrat backbenchers who at long last may be showing signs of rebelling as one totemic Liberal Democrat education policy after another is sacrificed to Tory ideology.»

The meeting came hours after Labour rebel Frank Field apologised in the Commons for personally attacking Gordon Brown, amid concessions from the prime minister which prompted widespread relief from Labour backbenchers.

After George Osborne's Budget triumph, if the going gets rocky for the Prime Minister in the months ahead — in his attempts to re-negotiate the terms of Britain's EU membership, for example — the clamour from the Tory back benches for Mr Osborne to move next door from No. 11 to No. 10 Downing Street earlier than Mr Cameron would like will grow among those backbenchers who cheered his Budget wildly and waved their order papers in a frenzy.

After all, two years ago relatively few people knew about a certain veteran left - wing backbencher from Islington.

After the Labour party suspended but did not expel Ken Livingstone, backbencher Wes Streeting was quick to confront the former London mayor over the decision.

Michael Gove's reputation appears to have disappeared down the pan, after a chat with a Labour backbencher meant he got stuck in the toilet on his first day as chief whip.

After Jeremy Corbyn had finished interrogating the prime minister over disability cuts and public sector pay, the wildcard Conservative backbencher Michael Fabricant popped up to ask a question.

After centuries of macho oneupmanship, a Conservative backbencher is now suggesting ending the system of primogeniture for good.

Shortly after the speech, they issued a quote from Brexiteer backbencher Dominic Raab stating that Blair «refuses to accept the decision people made last June».

After all, it's not surprising that an outspoken, veteran backbencher might struggle to adjust to the new requirements of a leadership role.

Conservative backbenchers are making their frustration felt after David Cameron made a series of major NHS reform concessions yesterday.

David Cameron was trying to pick up the pieces today, after another massive rebellion from his backbenchers revealed how little authority he has over his parliamentary party.

In the meantime, after half a decade, already, of widespread pay freezes and anxiety, and with Labour under Ed Miliband quietly accepting that they will next hold power in hard times too — «There is a new world out there,» the much - tipped young Labour backbencher Stella Creasy recently told this paper, «in the next [government] spending review absolutely everything should be on the table» — the toughening - up of Britain is arguably well underway.

8.04 pm: Geraldine Smith, the backbencher who has criticised the rebels strongly but who is also opposed to government policy on the Royal Mail, said after the meeting:

Labour backbencher Gordon Prentice said: «I had hoped for a new politics of openness after last week.

His move was welcomed by backbenchers including Siobhain McDonagh, who was sacked as a whip after calling for a leadership election last year, and the Nottingham North MP, Graham Allen.

Business Secretary Vince Cable has accused the Conservatives of being «horribly divided» during an interview with ITV News, after over half of all backbenchers rebelled against David Cameron.