Sentences with phrase «against conservative rebels»

The DUP, which is targeting 10 seats this time, is pragmatic about its partnerships and famous for driving hard bargains: it propped John Major up against Conservative rebels in the 1990s but also saved Labour from defeat over anti-terrorism legislation two years ago.

Not exact matches

To me it reads as if you think that being liberal is somehow inferior to being conservative, and because «rebelling against» anything is often associated with juveniles.

Francis was a big promoter of last year's peace deal with the rebel group but in visiting Colombia he will have to be sensitive to the viewpoints of the large number of conservative Roman Catholics who voted against the accord in a nationwide referendum.

As a Jesuit seminarian in the 1950s (he left the Society of Jesus well before ordination), he rebelled against the liberal editorials of the Jesuit opinion weekly America and soon began writing for William Buckley's flagship conservative periodical National Review and penned a fine study of G.K. Chesterton.

Naughty rebels of the week: The three Conservative MPs who voted with Labour against sale of forestry lands.

7.45 pm Update: We have our first real rebel estimate - the number of those Conservative MPs who voted against the programme motion.

The prime minister used his address at the lord mayor's banquet last night to send a clear signal to the 81 Conservative rebels who revolted against him en masse over an EU referendum last month.

The average age of the Conservative MP who rebelled against Lords reform is 51.

The Conservative MP, who has only rebelled against the party leadership once in 29 years, wrote that it was with «the deepest reluctance» he had concluded he must do so again.

Writing in the Sunday Times (paywall), the prime minister acknowledged there were «profound areas of disagreement» between the Liberal Democrats and members of the Conservative party, 91 of whom rebelled last week against a reform package for the upper house championed by Nick Clegg.

The problem is not so much that a number of Conservatives voted against the government - in fact, rebel Tory votes tipped the balance only once, in the unusual circumstances of the multiple rebellion on the European Economic Area amendment - or even that rather more Conservative peers didn't vote at all, because the government whips managed to bring in more than usual.

39 % of Conservative backbenchers have rebelled against this Government.

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.

Votes in which Conservative and Liberal Democrat rebels unite in common cause against the Government account for only one in five of the rebellions.»

But I think it is certainly difficult to see most of the 91 Conservative members [who rebelled over Lords reform], and a good many of those who spoke on the Labour benches against the bill on Monday and Tuesday last week, shifting their ground on what for many of them is a really fundamental obstacle.

Over half of all Conservative backbenchers rebelled against David Cameron on the vote to ban foreign criminals claiming their right to a family life to avoid deportation, Labour said.

But Labour's hopes that some campaigning Tory backbenchers would support its motion and rebel against the government looked set to be dashed as Conservatives hinted they had been told the government would reconsider the rise.

Even senior Conservatives appeared prepared to rebel yesterday, with environment secretary Owen Paterson voting against the bill and defence secretary Philip Hammond and attorney general Dominic Grieve abstaining.

I do n`t know if people at Conservative Office look at this site, but if they do they should get the message that posters here are almost unanimous that David Cameron should come out strongly against Mandelson «s proposals and support the Labour rebels.

Thirteen Conservative rebels - including former ministers Lord Deben and Lord Green - broke ranks to side against the Government.

But the Commons still voted 326 to 293 to approve the government's plan without amendment, with just seven Conservative rebels voting against their party and a few more abstaining.

Nowadays, the Ashcan School is one of the finest examples of how early 20th century artists were able to rebel against conservative American tastes — which were, in fact, a lot more traditional than most academic leanings of Europe.

Progressive Conservative Leadership candidate Jason Kenney did them one better, accusing those who have pointed to these inconsistencies in the CAODC - Wildrose - CPC - Rebel Media narrative about Bernard the Roughneck of mounting «personal attacks» against Hancock.