Sentences with phrase «back benchers who»

The fact of the matter is that the current leader of the opposition is battling some stiff opposition from his own back benchers who apparently did not hear the message from the Australian people at the last election.

Back benchers who are a bit cranky or eccentric can be dealt with much more easily than a free thinking, common sense type.

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?

He also told Jo Coburn about his backing for a married couple's tax allowance, which would be supported by fellow Conservative back benchers who «rather feel that they have a government which is not quite Tory enough and this would help, a bit.»

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

Who cares what this back bencher does?

Although the message may have been softened since to appease Unions and Tory back benchers, there is no doubt about the government's intention and the likelihood that there will be legislative changes at some point to achieve this (if only for the rump of schools left by then who have refused to engage so far).

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).