Sentences with phrase «back benchers in»

Without them Flanagan and company would be back benchers in the minority forever, like new political hack Senator Jimmy Tedisco, who spent most of his adult life being irrelevant in the Assembly.

Cameron aims to tame back benchers in reshuffle, the Telegraph says this morning.

Not exact matches

Opinion polls showed that voters had opposed privatization at the outset (as did the press and many Conservative back benchers), but the Conservatives pointed out that Tony Blair rode to victory in part by abandoning «Clause Four» of the Labour Party's 1904 constitution, advocating state control over the means of production, distribution and exchange.

Also, even though this alliance forces Smith to let bygones be bygones with a guy who once reportedly tried to oust him from his majority leader post (that would be Sen. Jeff Klein back in 2008 when the leadership struggle No. 1 took place), it could hardly be any worse than being the deposed former majority leader of the Democratic conference where he's pretty much just a back bencher since losing his power in the 2009 coup.

After a period on the back benchers Laws returned to government in 2012 as Minister of State for Schools in the Department of Education and Minster of State in the Cabinet Office.

Against this background, the Conservative back benchers» attempt to repeal the Fixed - term Parliaments Act in order to promote their party's vested interests, just like the Prime Minister's attempt to shape devolution with much the same aim in mind, appears ill advised.

The Tory back benchers have only just noticed that they hold almost no power whatsoever to stop these things - expect them to get increasingly irate as this sinks in.

Mr Salter, who entered parliament as part of Labour's landslide victory in 1997, said he wanted to be free to work with Labour back benchers to put forward «positive proposals» on education reform.

Had the leader's office wished to influence the outcome it would have been sufficient to persuade a reasonable number of front - benchers to vote only for John Healey (the one candidate who could be relied upon to back Ed Miliband in any issue where he needed it) to guarantee his election and a fairly small number to back Steve Rotherham who may have been seen as preferable to Dennis Skinner, in order to ensure that he came second.

But when the dust has settled on the unnecessary and ill - judged redefinition of marriage bill, the perceived EU bust up and allegations of disrespect to activists, the reality is that back benchers do not emerge as the «enemy» of Number 10 - and Number.10 does not, in the cold light of the day, default to playing the antagonist.

I have been privileged to work as PPS to four senior Labour ministers in four government departments and now feel that I can make my best contribution to the Labour effort in parliament by concentrating on helping, as a regular back - bencher, to show that Labour remains sound on matters of Defence.

The Commons select committee system has just received a further injection of new blood in the person of former GP and Conservative back - bencher Dr Sarah Wollaston MP.

While admitting that she had not read Labour's manifesto in detail Ms Sturgeon added: «I would be seeking to build alliances with parties like Plaid Cymru and the Greens and back benchers...

After Silver was effectively removed from his leadership post in February, days after his arrest, the chamber elected a new leader, leaving the former speaker to serve as a conspicuous back - bencher.

State law effectively gave Silver the power to choose a new comptroller — and he tapped DiNapoli, an Assembly back - bencher with zero experience in finance.

Mind you Corbyn's impression of an oppositional back bencher as if he hadn't won a convincing victory in the very recent leadership election isn't helping.

Wouldn't gave supported bombing myself, but if it was a free vote, then they weren't rebels, When Tony Blair had a free vote on changing abortion, and was leader of the opposition and he was against the Tory law in 1995 ′ were those labour back benchers who voted in a free vote, rebels?

This wack would make a good back - bencher / advocate, but his temperament is toxic... if he didn't have his own money he couldn't get a job bussing tables in a greasy spoon with that nasy - assed «tude.

We can not say for certain that Cameron was deliberately and cynically lying to his back - benchers in order to persuade them to throw their weight behind the coalition.

I do not know where the rest of the parliamentary Labour party are tonight — they may be plotting, once again, if the rumours that have been reported this evening are true — but not one Labour Back Bencher could be prevailed upon to speak in support of the Bill.»

The government's focus should be on investment in the thousands of early years providers in England, not fiddling with 160 grammar schools to appease a couple of dozen back - benchers.

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In a world that desperately needs to move away from fossil fuels and in an electorate that is leading the country in the development of renewable energy, Rowan, a Federal opposition back - bencher is so concerned about the stability of the state power grid — when there is no evidence of instability in that grid — that he makes a speech about it in ParliamenIn a world that desperately needs to move away from fossil fuels and in an electorate that is leading the country in the development of renewable energy, Rowan, a Federal opposition back - bencher is so concerned about the stability of the state power grid — when there is no evidence of instability in that grid — that he makes a speech about it in Parliamenin an electorate that is leading the country in the development of renewable energy, Rowan, a Federal opposition back - bencher is so concerned about the stability of the state power grid — when there is no evidence of instability in that grid — that he makes a speech about it in Parliamenin the development of renewable energy, Rowan, a Federal opposition back - bencher is so concerned about the stability of the state power grid — when there is no evidence of instability in that grid — that he makes a speech about it in Parliamenin that grid — that he makes a speech about it in Parliamenin Parliament!

After his political career, Braithwaite went back to practising law, and in 1999, he successfully overcame another hurdle by becoming the first black bencher elected to the governing council of the Law Society of Upper Canada.

Back when Omar was in the minority at a Law Society AGM, I was a new bencher and in the majority.

Adopted by the Benchers» back in February, the 12 - page document identifies three principal goals:

Still great, but we need to trim this back a little further to account for people who saw these tweets and are not eligible to vote in the LSUC Bencher election.

They did have to do something about the financing of the LPP, though (as doing it on the back of articling students was never justified and speaks ill of the benchers who signed off on it in the first place).

More than one bencher has declared the Statement of Principles an example of compelled speech, but in recent days it appears detractors to the policy have backed off since the guide was released in November.

Many Conservative Party back benchers voted in favour at 2nd Reading in Parliament, as did Green Party Leader, Elizabeth May.