Sentences with phrase «backbench pressure»

Education secretary Alan Johnson claimed Mr Cameron had subtly «caved in» to backbench pressure.

Osborne's fuel duty commitment follows intense backbench pressure and is his riposte to the promise last week by the Labour leader, Ed Miliband, to freeze electricity prices for 20 months after the 2015 election.

With or without political will, the continued discomfort with wind farms suggests more community action - and backbench pressure - could be on the way.

The watering down of the snooping proposals came as a result of Tory and Liberal Democrat backbench pressures, but many Lib Dem MPs were keen to get stuck into a public argument over civil liberties.

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Premier's Political Editor Martyn Eden says the EDM is used by backbench MPs to keep pressure and scrutiny on the government to follow through with promises and proposals.

The Commons will vote on the matter in backbench business time amid growing pressure about current arrangements.

These backbench rebels kept up the pressure, and they surely played a key part in ensuring that there was a referendum on Britain's membership of the EU.

This is obviously starting to be one of those issues which puts pressure on backbench MPs - and really matters locally.

However it isn't difficult to imagine a situation in which both Labour and the Conservatives could gain a majority in coalition with the Liberal Democrats help, but the Conservatives — under pressure from the backbenches — have erected a greater number of «red lines» while Labour are more open minded.

Wilkie never acted to bring down the government, but Labor's numbers again came under pressure thanks to the problems of backbench Labor MP for Dobell, Craig Thomson.

What this means is his vulnerability to revolts and pressure from his own backbenches is now acute - opening up the possibility of a repeat of the draining experience of the Major years.

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.

Tony Blair, it is true, did buckle under the pressure of a backbench uprising and agree to resign.