If such a powerful figure as Kinnock Could take with him, the generation that Had his father, Neil as their hero, Labour first, those who realise he saved the Labour party, Roy Hattersley, Fabians, the Co-op, compass, as well as the 174
back bench MPS,
Prior to setting up his own communications business, he was on the Conservative Party's professional staff working for Ministers and high - profile
back bench MPs, where he masterminded and devised a number of community campaigns which saw the Conservative Party holding to a number of highly marginal seats.
Not exact matches
Cantab83: I did qualify my point about the abolition of the Lords, claiming that it would also require significant moves in advancing the powers which
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bench MPs operate over the Executive.
For as long as the numbers of
MPs who are on the «pay - roll» remain unchanged, it is
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bench seats which will in practice be culled.
If significant moves could also be made in advancing the powers which
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bench MPs exercise over the Executive, there would then be a case for the abolition of the Second Chamber altogether.
Cutting the numbers of
MPs will itself further tip the balance of power in the Commons away from
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bench MPs towards the Front -
Benches.
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.
We have heard them uttered by
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bench Labour
MPs.
recent sexual harassment allegations, the scarcity of women or ethnic minority
MPs in the party's front and
back benches and the failed attempts to oust Nick Clegg as party leader are hardly stories that will improve the image of an already unpopular party.
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bench MPs seek adjournment debates in order to raise specific issues and particular concerns with Ministers on the floor of the House.
On the Labour
benches, Jeremy Corbyn is firmly opposed but around 30
MPs are thought to be willing to
back action as things stand.
Friends of the Earth's parliamentary campaigner Martyn Williams said: «Ministers are ignoring advice from scientists and more than two thirds of
back bench Labour
MPs who are calling for the climate change bill to be strengthened.
3 Labour
MPs inc Dennis Skinner
back on the opp front
bench which SNP want.SNP source: «They are likely to become a feature on SNP
benches»
Again in 2010
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Bench MPs for the first time secured the right to set up debates of their own choosing on the floor of the House, rather than being dependent on Government's willingness to stage such debates (which in most cases they refused to do), but this still needs to be supplemented by a House Business Committee so that all the business taken in the Chamber has to be negotiated between the Executive and the Legislature.
Votes at the end of
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Bench Business Committee debates, where
MPs themselves choose the subject for debate for the first time for 50 years (only conceded by the government after the expenses scandal), are simply ignored by the government.
Two thirds of Labour's front
bench roles would be left unfilled if Jeremy Corbyn wins the leadership because
MPs will refuse to
back his policies, shadow cabinet ministers have warned.
What they regret is the partisan way he has been elected, with some Labour
MPs backing Bercow, not because they thought he was the right reforming Speaker, but because they knew it would anger the Tory
benches.
The former leader is being touted for a move
back to the party's front
bench along with other senior
MPs who had been sceptical of his successor.
The fact that Senators can develop expertise in particular areas means that the Senate Banking Committee, for example, can assess the fine print of business legislation in ways that
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bench MPs can't — or won't (because they're making cheap political points, if in opposition, or on a tight leash from the Centre, if they're on the Government side).