Sentences with phrase «backbench policy»

In policy development the PCP should ensure that the new backbench policy committees are properly resourced.

Middle - ranking chairs of the party's backbench policy committees want ministers to outline their proposals in more detail before they are publicly announced.

There are five of these backbench policy committees, and the subject areas they cover are divided up as follows:

Not exact matches

«Those rules aren't good enough and are failing to inspire public confidence,» Don Foster, co-chair of the Lib Dems» backbench culture, media and sport policy committee, said.

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Effective backbench committees and cross party consultations can be developed and become part of the policy - making process.

Meanwhile, backbench Labour MP John Mann attacked the policy shift, saying it left Labour with a «glaring» contradictory economic policy.

Instead, he backed down in the face of backbench demands and installed Chris Grayling, who ran a mind - bogglingly wrong - headed penal policy.

ConservativeHome hopes and expects the Parliamentary Conservative Party to undertake policy - making, not least through backbench committees.

The Conservatives would have been able to pass these policies had it not been for dissent on their own backbenches.

But what if he could be implementing such policies rather than merely lobbying for them from the backbenches?

Certainly the Labour Party hopes so, launching an onslaught of backbench questions regarding the PM's adviser and his «devastating conflict of interest» with the ditched plain cigarette packaging policy.

Eurosceptic John Baron delivered the letter to No 10 this morning, just days after Cameron sought to bolster party discipline by bringing a number of backbench Tory MPs into his Downing Street policy operation.

His recruitment comes as a new policy advisory unit featuring backbench rebels is established.

Yet we need to see it do more to support politics on the backbenches and an extended role for shaping Conservative policies at the next election, helping to deliver a Conservative majority in 2015 and dominating the Parliamentary agenda.»

It was when Hilary Benn said that he would be prepared to speak from the backbenches in the Syria debate, in order to avoid opposing party policy, that Corbyn realised he would have to give way.

In reality the backbench departmental bodies have so far had little influence, but they have the potential to become a vehicle to develop a parallel set of new policies to those being produced by Corbyn's supporters.

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.

Only the last of these policies has resulted in actual change: the electorate voted «no» to AV, Conservative backbench rebels scotched Lords reform and the LibDems vetoed the boundary changes in retaliation.

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.

Clegg gets big cheers from the Tory backbenches as he defends the policies of the government.

He is also looking to bring the policy board back with more backbench representation and different name.

«The Tory leadership is battling to head off a backbench ambush over a new tax break for married couples... Tim Loughton, the author of the amendment, said that it presented Mr Cameron with a «golden opportunity» to show his Government was capable of enacting true Conservative policies.

The formidable Conservative backbench support for transferable tax allowances shows how crucial marriage is to Tory thinking about social policy.

«I have been clear and consistent that I believe it is the right policy for the country to maintain a minimum credible nuclear deterrent, while working to advance global nuclear disarmament I am determined to continue making the case for Labour to have strong, credible Defence and security policies, and I feel that the most effective way for me to continue to do this is from the backbenches.

«I am determined to continue making the case for Labour to have strong, credible Defence and security policies, and I feel that the most effective way for me to continue to do this is from the backbenches.»

«The backbench committee has taken oral evidence from a wider range and may be able to offer a more balanced perspective if the frontbench review is being used as a vehicle to overturn established Labour policy.»

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.

Within the Labour party, among backbench MPs and constituency activists alike, one of the most common complaints is that new policies seem to come out of the blue - or from the Downing Street wonks - without being discussed in the party's policy - making process.

In his resignation letter, he told Mr Corbyn that he wanted to continue to make the case for a «credible» defence policy from the backbenches.

But, with cabinet ministers commissioning detailed backbench papers and policy submissions to feed into the next election manifesto, there are welcome signs of a deeper engagement with the parliamentary party over how Labour renews its appeal in office.

«I am determined to continue making the case for Labour to have strong, credible Defence and security policies, and I feel that the most effective way for me to continue to do this from the backbenches.»

Only two years ago, it had been government policy to force all schools to become academies, a plan that had been rapidly sunk by a rebellion by backbench MPs.

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

Those political objectives are: to provide a point of policy difference with the Labor Party; to meet the demands of the government's backbench to provide support for coal - fired electricity; and to be seen to be acting to hold power prices down.

It keeps enough of existing policy to prevent the backbench sceptics flaring up but it also overlaps sufficiently with the Labor Party's platform that the Opposition will go along with it and so vote for it in the Senate.