Sentences with phrase «backbench colleagues»

A senior Conservative MP has criticised his backbench colleagues for trying to force a vote this week on legislating for an EU referendum.

But it is the kind of typical Borisian intervention that says to his backbench colleagues «if she's too timid as PM, look what I would do».»

Having made a name for himself in a number of ways, the rugged politician is widely spoken of as a rising star by both his Tory backbench colleagues and Downing Street insiders.

Until 2016 she had a poor reputation with her backbench colleagues.

You have to give politicians some reason for making a decision which is valid, even if it is unpopular with backbench colleagues or the press.

Public health minister Anna Soubry has called on disenchanted backbench colleagues to end the «tw*t tery» undermining David Cameron — before attacking the prime minister herself.

He is known to be both well - liked by his backbench colleagues and highly regarded by Number 10.

Not exact matches

As MPs chortled on the backbenches, Hammond's colleague Wendy Morton looked less - than - amused as she sat beside him.

Usually backbench MPs seeking to get a law through parliament in their name need to persuade 100 colleagues to vote for it.

Did he want a strong shadow cabinet colleague who would, on occasion, feel able to speak out against the views of his leader and perhaps the wider shadow cabinet or did he want such a big beast roaming the backbenches, taking potshots at the leadership at will?

If Mark Reckless wins by a comfortable margin in Rochester, then it would be a good idea for these backbench Conservatives to follow their colleague's lead and stand for UKIP in a by - election right now.

«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.

«There are many other things which need to be improved if anything like the package is to be acceptable, so there is not yet agreement between colleagues in government and colleagues on the backbenches, but we are working hard to get as much agreement as possible,» he said.

The extreme and most hilarious version of the call to discipline yesterday came from the firebrand Corbynista MP Chris Williamson - who angrily rejected the portrayal of Corbyn as pathologically disloyal to Labour in his many decades on the backbenches, and said that Corbyn's refusal to vote with his colleagues simply showed his innate loyalty to the true spirit of the party and its genuine supporters!

Despite his total loyalty to David Cameron and his frontbench colleagues, John remains on the backbenches.

A colleague told me recently he decided to become a scientist 30 years ago when a lecturer in Australian universities was paid about the same as a backbench member of Federal parliament.