Sentences with phrase «backbench lib»

Backbench Lib Dems made noises about supporting the Labour - created motion urging Rupert Murdoch not to pursue his bid to own all of BSkyB - and would probably have supported it regardless of whether the Government as a whole decided to support it - as they did in the end.

For 22 of these have rebelled against the Government therefore means that a whopping 63 % of backbench Lib Dems have defied the whip.

After voicing their concerns with the outcome of the summit, backbench Lib Dem MPs and peers are thought to have put forward proposals towards building a fresh coalition approach to the new two - tier Europe.

Not exact matches

«Those rules aren't good enough and are failing to inspire public confidence,» Don Foster, co-chair of the Lib Dems» backbench culture, media and sport policy committee, said.

Baroness Walmsley, co-chair of the Lib Dems» backbench education, families and young people committee, added: «We should trust the governors, teachers and parents to make their local choice in local circumstances after proper consultation, which is in the Act.»

«After wrecking the economy, Labour spent the last years rubbishing the coalition's growth plan,» the Lib Dems» backbench Treasury spokesperson Stephen Williams said.

The party's foreign affairs backbench committee met with Europe minister David Lidington yesterday to vent their frustrations with the outcome of last week's summit, which many Lib Dems fear will be a diplomatic and economic disaster for Britain.

«Will the PM support the Lib Dem backbench bill to make sure peers pay their full tax in this country?»

It might be David Cameron but it's more likely to be a backbench MP, or Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg, whose party proudly opposed the war from the start.

He was one of eight Lib Dems who abstained altogether in the vote, which saw 21 of the party's 57 MPs - the bulk of its backbench contingent - rebel outright.

Tory ministers were unable to stave off a rebellion from their backbenches over Lib Dem - supported plans to create an 80 % elected upper House.

Were it not for the disarray in the Labour Party and the unpopularity of the Lib Dems, the fraught relationship between backbench Conservative MPs and the Leader would be significantly worse and the number of letters sent to Graham Brady would be rapidly approaching 46.

Indeed, once you exclude those Lib Dem MPs who are or were at some point members of the «payroll vote», either as ministers or parliamentary private secretaries — and thus expected to remain loyal to the government, there is now not a single Lib Dem MP who has been on the backbenches throughout the parliament and who has remained loyal to the party whip.

Lib Dem enthusiasm for more European integration and the strength of euroscepticism on the Tory backbenches are set to create one of the biggest sticking - points of the coalition government in its four years left in power.

These MPs, coupled with the likelihood of many of their partners in coalitious crime on the Lib Dem backbenches rebelling, may well have been the main reason the government has diluted its motion and decided upon a future second vote.

The watering down of the snooping proposals came as a result of Tory and Liberal Democrat backbench pressures, but many Lib Dem MPs were keen to get stuck into a public argument over civil liberties.

Tom Brake, who chairs meetings of the Lib Dem MPs charged with running the parliamentary committees, said he wanted to see more backbench input «further upstream» in the policymaking process.

One Conservative MP - far from a right - winger - reckons David Cameron lied to the shadow Cabinet and his backbench MPs at least four times in the hours leading up to the coalition agreement with the Lib Dems on 11 May.

But given the Conservatives» outright refusal to countenance electoral reform — presumably Clegg's minimum precondition for any electoral deal — and likely visceral Lib Dem backbench opposition to supporting a Tory government, that would be some coup to pull off.

It's not Lib Dems and Tory frontbenchers against the Tory backbenches, nor is it Tory front and backbenches against Lib Dems: it's Lib Dems and Tory backbenchers against the Government.