Sentences with phrase «backbench critics»

A genuine and sustained debate among MPs about the details of the policy regime, much of it centred around the proposals in a paper from moderate backbench critics Alan Whitehead and Peter Bradley, has led to significant government concessions and a new focus on questions of increasing access to university from a broader social intake.

After that, backbench critics of Brown decided that they could not rely on the cabinet to act for them - either because they lacked the courage or because, for those like David Miliband and Alan Johnson, resignation would destroy their chance of leading.

The Sunday Telegraph has learned that he is poised to announce a long - awaited major inquiry into the 2003 Iraq War in a bid to appease his backbench critics.

Instead of some tawdry trick to buy off backbench critics with the Balkanisation of Parliament and the purge of Welsh, Scottish and Irish influence.

Some backbench critics, hoping to oust him, complained that they hadn't been given nomination papers annually as they should have.

She also appeared to hint that she believes Mr Bercow's time is up, in her response to a call for a Commons debate on the Speaker by his most outspoken backbench critic, Tory MP James Duddridge.

During the Second World War he was a leading backbench critic of the Coalition Government.

Not exact matches

The 57 - year - old, one of David Cameron's harshest critics on the Conservative backbenches, is not thought to be defecting to Ukip and will not stand for re-election in 2015, limiting the damage his resignation will have on the prime minister.

Mr Blair is facing a backbench revolt over the plans, which critics claim will bring in selection by the back door, and Mr Cameron capitalised on this by listing among the proposals that the Tories agree with, a new power for schools to bring back selection.

From the backbenches, he was a vocal critic of the government, voting against Foundation Hospitals in November 2003.

Field went on to become one of the Labour government's most vocal critics from within the party on the backbenches.

The most vocal critic has been John Mann, the backbench MP for Bassetlaw, who said Miliband needed to «step up to the mark».

The chair of the Treasury backbench committee, the former shadow chancellor, Chris Leslie, has been one of the strongest critics of Corbyn's economic policies and has been willing to challenge them at meetings of the PLP.

«My problem is with his temperament,» says backbench Conservative Nadhim Zahawi, a Trump critic.

In a lengthy resignation letter he said he could best serve Corbyn's «wide debate» from the backbenches after critics including Shadow Culture Secretary Michael Dugher were purged.

His critics are beginning to smell weakness with Liam Fox on manoeuvres supported by a chorus of backbench Tory celebrating his eurosceptic speech this week.