Sentences with phrase «backbench group»

She and Mr Burt are both involved in a new Tory backbench group pressing the Government not to quit the single market as the UK leaves the EU.

Matthew Barrett profiles the socially conservative Tory backbench group»»

To organise or endorse candidates for the»22 is certainly the most power a backbench group has yet wielded in this Parliament.

Indeed, I expect that the machinery of the 301 group, the most pro-Cameron of all the backbench groups, will be thrown behind the Elphicke - Hollingbery - Patel slate.»

My series profiling the backbench groups of Tory MPs has so far mainly featured groups founded or mostly composed of 2010 intake MPs.

Not exact matches

Questions - Communities and Local Government, including Topical Questions Motions - Relating to the Backbench Business Committee, Committee on Standards and Committee of Privileges, Code of Conduct, All - party groups, Scrutiny of certain draft orders Adjournment debate - Provision of Traveller sites in Bournemouth and Poole, Dorset

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.

The Tory backbenches erupted in support, pointing in unison to a small group of cowering Labour figures to the prime minister's right.

This morning's account in the Times (#) of a «dinner table plot to unseat the coalition» turns out to be the second subtantial leak from the No Turning Back Group - the right - of - party - centre backbench dining club of Conservative MPs of which I was once a member.

I see the work that George & Andrea are doing on the EU as enough in terms of backbench representation and that no further formal or informal groups are required.

The 301 group is perhaps the most active and important group of backbench Tory MPs.

Parliament's House of Commons select committee system, which allows groups of backbench MPs to scrutinise the work of government departments and to initiate their own inquiries in areas related to the work of those departments, has existed in its present form since 1979.

Yesterday Jacob Rees - Mogg, the chair of the 60 - strong backbench European Research Group, blasted Business Minister Greg Clark for peddling a «project fear» agenda on the issue.

About twelve of them said yes, and the European Research Group was founded under the chairmanship of Michael Spicer, who would go on to chair the 1922 Committee of backbench Conservative MPs, before stepping down as an MP in 2010 after being caught in the 2009 expenses scandal paying for maintenance of his helipad with public money.

Only today, I overheard a Tory backbench MP looking disgruntled and rather indiscreetly discussing their plan to garner a group of «50 of us [MPs]» to «tell Cameron he can't expect our votes» if he doesn't give in to certain demands — what these were they sadly did not voice out loud.

The decision comes after sustained pressure from motoring groups and backbench Conservative MPs, who have argued that the high oil prices of the past few years were already making driving prohibitively expensive.

With a group of Tory backbenchers more rebellious than ever Cameron desperately needs a whips office he can trust but who also crucially enjoy a the goodwill of his backbench troops.

The Sunday Telegraph can reveal that MPs on the ruling executive of the backbench 1922 Committee are planning to openly defy the Prime Minister by throwing out his attempt to change the group's rules.

The group's co-chairmen are David Campbell Bannerman, a Conservative member of the European Parliament who had previously served as deputy leader of the UK Independence Party, and Steve Baker, a backbench Conservative member of parliament at Westminster.

Cabinet opponents of the customs partnership plan are backed by the influential European Research Group of Tory backbench MPs.

Then comes a backbench debate on autism led by Dame Cheryl Gillan, who chairs the all - party parliamentary group on autism.

An abortive attempt by the backbench business committee to give some shape to these occasions, by trying to group speeches on particular subject areas together, has now been abandoned.