Sentences with phrase «backbench bill»

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

Black, a member of the work and pensions select committee, is set to introduce a backbench bill aimed at curbing the benefits sanction regime.

Davies has previously suggested «feminsist zealots really do want women to have their cake and eat it» and in December he spoke for over an hour in an effort to talk out a backbench bill calling on the government to ratify an international treaty on domestic violence.

Backbench bills have to clear the same path as other bills, but the problems for them is a lack of Parliamentary time unless they win some backing from the government and party whips.

Not exact matches

James Wharton, who shot to fame when he tried to pilot the first EU referendum bill from the backbenches, lost his Stockton South seat and his job as an international development minister on 8 June.

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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.

The vote, which took place as the Commons debates Lords amendments to the electoral registration and administration bill, will deepen already intense bitterness on the government backbenches over the coalition's stalled constitutional reform agenda.

Opposition is growing from the Labour backbenches towards proposals making claimants work for their benefits contained in the welfare reform bill.

May's last - minute addition to the 50 government amendments used up much of the Commons time allocated to the bill, which had been set to see potentially substantial backbench rebellions.

Although a bill for Lords reform featured in last week's Queen's speech, there are signs the appetite for it in Downing Street is waning amid backbench opposition.

Yesterday the Bill had its Second Reading debate in the Commons and here is a flavour of the warm welcome it got from the Tory backbenches.

The government is braced for another Labour backbench rebellion when MPs vote on the final stages of the controversial education bill today and tomorrow.

The government fought off a backbench rebellion of 69 MPs last night when the Conservatives helped them get through the report stage of the education bill.

In a backbench debate on the European Council yesterday, veteran Eurosceptic MP Bill Cash warned that a proposed fiscal union would be both undemocratic as a whole, and damage the national interests of the UK.

Of the 15 new bills announced yesterday, I'd be surprised if at least 13 don't see some backbench dissent.

My usual rule is that it's a bit of a mug's game trying to identify in advance which bill announced in a Queen's Speech will trigger backbench rebellions.

The bill itself may also prove to be a true test of how in control the prime minister is of his own party given the level of opposition among backbench MPs and his weakened position in the latest ICM poll, published yesterday, in which 63 per cent of voters said Labour would be better off with a new leader.

Government ministers will speak in favour of the bill but backbench MPs will not be prevented from attempting to «talk out» the legislation.

His comments may seem surprising given the divisions exposed within the Labour party during discussions on the education and inspections bill, with 69 backbench MPs rebelling at the report stage.

Mandelson has decided to launch the bill in the Lords to give him more time to gauge the kind of concessions that will be necessary to prevent a full scale backbench revolt in the Commons.

However, the substance of the issue could be said to have received something like a technical vote of confidence: a backbench Labour amendment to remove the concept of secret hearings from the Bill was defeated by 164 votes to 25.

Surprising, then, that the Bill in question was introduced by a backbench Labour MP and its main objective is not to reduce the deficit or «make work pay», but to tackle the problem of unregistered voters.

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The collapsed effort at forcing through the Postal Services Bill against Labour backbench opposition to restructure the Royal Mail is a glaring example of a government backing away from issues it really needs to deal with.

«Academies Bill passes Commons with majority of 92 Main Theresa May defends European Investigation Order as necessary for cross-border crime - fighting but backbench Tory MPs warn her that it is an EU «power grab»»

The bill was opposed on both sides of the House and Brown was facing a growing backbench rebellion.

Backbench MP Bill Cash also complained there had been no discussion about the move before it happened.

Alas, with a six - minute limit on backbench speeches in place during the Second Reading of the Postal Services Bill, he was at that point cut off in his prime by the Deputy Speaker before he was able to make any remarks about the Bill.

Barrow MP John Woodcock, chair of Labour's backbench defence committee, said: «It is unfortunate that what was billed as an open - minded review only seems to be giving a platform to those opposed to renewal, particularly given the level of expertise on Labour's own side.

Indeed, the only backbench Labour MPs to give speeches were Frank Field and Katy Clark, who explained why they were not supporting their Government's Bill.

During the House of Commons vote in October 2011 on a backbench motion for a bill to be introduced in the next parliamentary session to enable a referendum to be held on Britain's continued membership of the European Union, Mosley was one of 81 Conservative MPs who voted against the Government Whip to support a referendum.

In 2014, a Conservative backbench MP from Saskatchewan introduced Bill C - 560, which, if passed into law, would have legislated a rebuttable presumption of ESP, but it failed to pass second reading in the House of Commons, it was reported at the time.