Sentences with phrase «backbench campaigns»

It then took our backbench campaigns to get a referendum, and then support for legislation.

But his forte, arguably, is running backbench campaigns - such as his successful push during the 1980s to scrap the Dock Labour Scheme.

He's well known, both for his dogged backbench campaigns and his opposition to UK military intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Not exact matches

Backbench MPs were organised into campaign units, shadowing each of the major briefs.

The prime minister will now refer to the terror group it previously called ISIL as Daesh, after a sustained campaign from a backbench Tory MP.

As a backbench MP, Davis continued campaigning for civil liberties.

As a student politician and then a backbench MP, Mullin had built his reputation on campaigning for civil liberties, working tirelessly on miscarriages of justice involving the Guildford Four and the Birmingham Six.

But the news that Brown has U-turned on plans to scrap non-means tested tax relief on childcare following a small but significant backbench rebellion indicates he is loathe to upset the middle classes too much ahead of a general election campaign.

Seriously considering leading Out campaign as gain of backbench support allows real tilt at leadership.

Thousands of supporters were mobilised to contact their MPs in support of the campaign, which led to 47 MPs from five parties submitting a request for a backbench business debate.

If Ed Balls says no and returns the backbenches, Alexander could still become a full - time campaign co-ordinator and Jim Murphy could take his job with a promotion for Dan Jarvis — a man many see as the next Labour leader.

The former cabinet heavyweight added that it was time for Johnson to «make his mind up whether he's a minister or not, or whether he wants to keep campaigning for the leadership from the backbenches.»

The Mail on Sunday and Sunday Times (#) are suggesting that backbench Tory MP Adam Afriyie is lining up a campaign to challenge for the Tory leadership - most likely after the next election but possibly beforehand.

«They include allowing Labour members to elect the party chairman; launching a «find - a-friend» campaign to double Labour's membership; training Labour Party members to become community organisers; and maintaining, in opposition, the requirement for the Labour leader to have weekly meetings with a committee of backbench MPs.»

Campaigning for the chairs of these committees has been under way since news of final appointments to each party's front bench confirmed who had been left on the backbenches at the start of this parliament.