Sentences with phrase «backbench members»

The result of the election of representatives of backbench members of Parliament and MEPs has been announced (though without voting figures).

He said he had sought to engage with ministers to find a compromise over several weeks, but without success: «The blunt reality is, and I'm sorry to have to say this to the house, I've been left in the lurch, as a backbench member trying to improve this legislation.»

«This is just the work I am getting on with as part of the broad remit of a backbench Member of Parliament who happens to have a great interest in these things.»

If they don't like what is being done then being a backbench Member of Parliament is a perfectly honourable thing to do.»

«I just think that, as a backbench Member of Parliament, you've got to be there, particularly when we have a very weak opposition — to ask the questions that the Government needs to be scrutinised on before we embark on such a huge issue.

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.

Not exact matches

Meanwhile, many backbench House members were unwilling to go along with any deal that only made small cuts in spending.

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

So as a momentous week draws to a close, Theresa has a radically reshaped Cabinet facing some really tough challenges but with some unhappy former members on the backbench.

David Cameron needs to rebuild the «damaged relationships» between himself and Conservative party members, a senior backbench Tory MP has said.

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.

ANDREW TURNER MARTIN VICKERS HEATHER WHEELER Finally and separately, the following nominations have been received for Conservative members of the Backbench Business Committee - four posts: DAVID AMESS BOB BLACKMAN PETER BONE JANE ELLISON PHILIP HOLLOBONE MARCUS JONES

He was a member of the Treasury Select Committee from 2004 until he was briefly, in 2005, a spokesman on work and pensions under the leadership of Michael Howard, but returned to the backbenches later in the year when David Cameron became Conservative leader.

One change, a few months ago, meant that the BBBC's members were no longer elected by the whole house but the Tory members by Tory backbench MPs only and Labour representatives by Labour backbench MPs etc..

After Northern Ireland secretary Owen Paterson made clear he would not support gay marriage - adding his dissent to indications of opposition from defence secretary Philip Hammond and children's minister Tim Loughton - Downing Street accepted the free vote would apply to members of the government as well as backbench MPs.

Dennis Skinner is the ongest serving member of Labour's executive by a long way, having represented his fellow backbench MPs on the executive since 1999, and having previously served for twenty years as a constituency party representative.

The Labour leader was attacked by backbench MPs and even members of his shadow cabinet after the party lost seats in England and Wales and were humiliated in Scotland, where they finished a distant third.

Indeed, once you exclude those Lib Dem MPs who are or were at some point members of the «payroll vote», either as ministers or parliamentary private secretaries — and thus expected to remain loyal to the government, there is now not a single Lib Dem MP who has been on the backbenches throughout the parliament and who has remained loyal to the party whip.

Sacking Damian Green will have left Theresa May more isolated in cabinet but more popular with backbench MPs and members, senior party figures have said.

Since entering the Commons in 2005, Davies has established himself as a leading member of the Tory backbench awkward squad who is not afraid to speak his mind.

Many other shadow cabinet members are said to have made it clear that they would not leave the room until Corbyn had backed down, while Hilary Benn complained about being silenced and suggested he would have to speak from the backbenches.

First, the House ensured that the Chairmen of the Backbench Business Committee will always be a member of a non-governing party.

Here was a backbench minority member of the Assembly sounding as though the government couldn't function without him.

Purnell's move is also likely to strengthen the secretive backbench revolt which is gathering steam and was reported to have about 75 members.

The Wright report also recommended the establishment of a House Business Committee, made up of the elected members of the Backbench Business Committee together with frontbench representatives nominated by the party leaders, which would assume responsibility for the House's weekly agenda.

I'm also told that Downing Street's original plan was to have junior Ministers taking the lead on policy developments in policy areas for which they are responsible - until senior figures on the»22 pointed out that Ministers, as members of the executive branch of government, are not well placed to represent opinion on the backbenches.

He had support from both the Conservative and Labour leadership, however many backbench MPs, particularly those from the Labour Party (who held a large majority in the House at the time), viewed Young as someone who had too recently been a member of his party's front bench team and was thus not sufficiently in touch with ordinary MPs.

As a key ally of the then Shadow Foreign Secretary Robin Cook, Cousins was still hopeful of a ministerial job when Labour won the election in 1997, but his hopes were dashed and instead he became an influential member of the backbench Treasury Select Committee.

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.

«It won more than 100,000 signatures but Backbench Business Committee denies a debate to Robert Halfon's petrol prices petition Main Geoffrey Van Orden MEP's surveys of party members keep him in touch with the grassroots»

«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.»

Since Commons Committee Chairmen are elected either on a cross-party basis by all backbench MPs, or by the members of the Committee concerned, the procedure that Connarty was referring to is obscure.

«It's sad but not surprising that backbench Assembly Member Nicole Malliotakis is more interested in filing ridiculous lawsuits than she is in serving New Yorkers — 900,000 of whom have already signed up for IDNYCs,» said spokeswoman Robin Levine.

Opposition members are fully aware that it would be constitutionally inappropriate for the Health Committee to interview backbench MPs on their views around devolved matters - just as we wouldn't expect backbench AMs to be giving evidence to Select Committees in Parliament.

At least five members of the Government, including aides to Cabinet Ministers, are considering resigning in protest after No 10 rejected backbench demands for a referendum on the issue.

For Adams — Member of Parliament for Peterborough and professor emeritus at Trent University — the months of backbench lobbying paid off in a budget that he believes is firmly on the plus side for postsecondary education and research.

The policy advice clearly favoured dispatchables, but vocal members of his backbench wanted a policy to subsidise coal.

For that matter, although Marn Ferguson is a hereditary princeling of the Socialist Left, his actual views would not be out of place among the more troglodyte members of the Liberal backbench.