Sentences with phrase «backbench liberal»

Over on the NottsPolitics blog Professor Philip Cowley underlines the rebelliousness of backbench Liberal Democrat and Conservative MPs since the formation of the Coalition.

Some backbench Liberal MPs have been pushing for Canada to adopt a similar approach as a way to deal with the ongoing opioid crisis.

Not exact matches

Mr. Kowalski's time on the backbenches ended in April 1997, when he won a surprise victory against Dunvegan MLA Glen Clegg to become Speaker of the Legislative Assembly (it was suspected that he also had the support of the 18 Liberal MLAs and two NDP MLAs in the Assembly).

The ban is gaining support on the Liberal Party backbench, but Nationals MPs insist it is the wrong way to approach it.

Liberal Democrat home affairs backbench spokesperson Tom Brake also stated that high ranking officers he had spoken to expressed «no desire» to use such extreme methods of crowd control.

Holding his backbenchers in check on Europe has been ever more difficult to achieve, however, given the disproportionate number of hard - line Eurosceptics among the 2010 intake of Conservative MPs and the increasing discontent on the Conservative backbenches with the constraints of being in a coalition with the Liberal Democrats.

By avoiding confrontation and by making concessionary gestures to their Coalition partner, their strategy would appear to be to «hang the Liberal Democrats out to dry»; as realistically, the Conservative Party backbench would never pass a bill mandating a grand convention to write a brand new constitution from scratch.

Nick Clegg and David Cameron had been wrestling each other for months over House of Lords reform, with the Liberal Democrat leader very publicly pulling the plug on his pet project in August 2012 after the prime minister admitted he would not be able to guarantee the support of his backbenches for the far - reaching reform.

Conservative backbench opinion is hardening against Mr Lansley making dramatic retreats in the face of staunch Liberal Democrat opposition.

Last night, backbench Tory MP Phillip Davies said: «This is the kind of garbage we have to put up with when in coalition with the Liberal Democrats.»

«My colleague Sir Nick Harvey has talked and written extensively on Liberal Democrat Ministers in Government — he has looked at the situation as an insider while I have watched on from the backbenches.

However it isn't difficult to imagine a situation in which both Labour and the Conservatives could gain a majority in coalition with the Liberal Democrats help, but the Conservatives — under pressure from the backbenches — have erected a greater number of «red lines» while Labour are more open minded.

The rebellious backbench Tory MP stepped up his calls for the immediate breakup of the coalition after Liberal Democrat ministers voted with Labour against boundary changes earlier this week.

Backbench opposition As the new Conservative and Liberal Democrat cabinet met for the first time yesterday, some senior Tory and Labour MPs voiced concern over the proposal.

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.

Liberal Democrat Leader in the Lords, Dick Newby said of the appointments: «This is a desperate grab for power by a regime losing its grip on Parliament, public opinion and even its own backbenches.

The backbench measure still faces further parliamentary hurdles, and there is no guarantee it will become law with most Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs abstaining.

Morneau was forced to tweak and even back off some of the proposals after an angry backlash from doctors, farmers, tax experts and even Liberal backbench MPs.

For that matter, although Marn Ferguson is a hereditary princeling of the Socialist Left, his actual views would not be out of place among the more troglodyte members of the Liberal backbench.