Sentences with phrase «backbencher telling»

One furious backbencher told the Evening Standard: «Patrick is a Filofax chairman.

The backbencher told TP:

One backbencher tells her:

«The question is not whether they're going to U-turn,» one Conservative backbencher told me excitedly, «but how they're going to do it».

One backbencher told PoliticsHome: «This email from John McDonnell is quite remarkable.

One backbencher told PoliticsHome: «People just threw their hands in the air that he'd finally turned up, given a dismal, self - congratulatory pat on the back and then left without taking any questions.

When he then attacked Mr Cameron for cycling to work folowed by cars holding his documents, Mr Cameron said: «It's not my backbenchers telling me to get on my bike.»

The disgruntled backbencher told Radio 4's World at One:

One backbencher told TP:

One Labour backbencher told PoliticsHome that Mr Reed was unlikely to be the last of his party's MPs to stand down before the next election.

Not exact matches

He told The Australian Financial Review he has at least two and as many as five backbenchers willing to cross the floor.

I don't think that's gold - plated at all,» Labour backbencher Tom Blenkinsop told politics.co.uk.

The government's proposals to give voters the right to recall their MPs fundamentally miss the point, two Conservative backbenchers have told MPs.

While Mr Prescott himself denied making the remarks in a private meeting on Tuesday, nine Labour backbenchers have told The Independent that this sentiment reflects the view of many in their party.

A key point in the drama comes when the camera lingers on Cameron's expression as he tells Tory backbenchers that Labour may have just offered the Lib Dems electoral reform without a referendum.

Labour backbencher John Mann told the BBC he believed it would save the taxpayer # 20m a year and amounted to «a cut» for MPs.

Conservative backbencher Harriett Baldwin, who was instrumental in persuading coalition ministers that a commission was needed on the issue, told politics.co.uk the commission found a «strong public attitude» on the issue.

Most telling of all was the lack of hostility from Tory backbenchers, which is significant and noteworthy after what has been a terrible few weeks for the prime minister.

But Conservative backbenchers loyal to the prime minister told politics.co.uk that Cameron's personal authority has been seriously undermined by the result - both within the Tory party and at the negotiating table.

13:24 - Deputy Speaker Hoyle tells Labour backbenchers off for indulging in a bit of panto.

How on earth could she tell the prime minister that «I propose that the government does not support this amendment because it would be incompatible with the ECHR and counter-productive» and then, as the home secretary responsible for enforcing law and order in Britain, simply sit there, just scared of her own backbenchers, and fail to vote?

Tory backbencher Philip Davies tells Government it must do dental checks on «child» migrants to stop the abuse of Britain's generosity

Nick Clegg will infuriate David Cameron's restive backbenchers on Wednesday by insisting he will not allow the coalition to be broken up early and telling them it is time to get back to governing from the centre, and end the game - playing at Westminster.

He told a fringe event that he anticipated staying a backbencher «but these are matters for Jeremy and for discussion».

Senior backbencher and Leeds Central MP Hilary Benn said: «It's time the truth was told and the Government is failing in its responsibility by ruling out an inquiry.»

I Tweeted about this yesterday and was immediately told that it's a two - way process with Tory backbenchers regularly returning fire.

Clegg told Radio 4's Today programme: «The Conservative party have been tearing themselves [apart] on Europe so they have now plucked out of thin air an arbitrary date, 2017, when a referendum would take place... on the back of what I predict will be a largely synthetic renegotiation of the terms of Britain's membership that won't satisfy their backbenchers.

Acting Labour leader Harriet Harman had told MPs to abstain, but 48 backbenchers voted against, including eighteen newly - elected members.

«Me and a few other Labour backbenchers picked up on it,» one of them told me.

«It was inevitable that he would have to go,» Treasury committee member and Labour backbencher Andy Love told politics.co.uk.

The latest Labour backbencher to attack Mr Blair's ongoing leadership is new MP Sarah McCarthy - Fry, who told the BBC yesterday that Mr Blair's continued premiership meant her party was «not being able to discuss those policies and get that message over».

Bercow told MPs that he would be the «champion of backbenchers».

Backbencher Heidi Allen told BBC Radio 4's Westminster Hour: «I couldn't be in the Conservative party if he was my leader.»

Duncan told us Noodle should be «running the country» and asserted that, if backbenchers only were allowed to enter this competition, he'd have «to resign and put Noodle first.»

On Newsnight, right - wing Tory backbencher Peter Bone just told Baroness Warsi that it's «the beginning of the end of the coalition».

«Tory backbenchers», Lib Dems have been told to say, «have shown their true colours in recent months.»

Mr Cameron, who looked deeply uncomfortable throughout the session, told Mr Miliband: «I'll deal with my backbenchers, you deal with yours.»

The prime minister has said he's relaxed about how backbenchers vote,» Europe minister David Lidington told politics.co.uk in an interview yesterday.

He tells Tory backbenchers to calm down - «follow the prime minister's advice».

In the meantime, after half a decade, already, of widespread pay freezes and anxiety, and with Labour under Ed Miliband quietly accepting that they will next hold power in hard times too — «There is a new world out there,» the much - tipped young Labour backbencher Stella Creasy recently told this paper, «in the next [government] spending review absolutely everything should be on the table» — the toughening - up of Britain is arguably well underway.

8.08 pm: And Clive Betts, a Labour backbencher, is telling Sky: «This has drawn a line under the whole affair.»

At a meeting of the 1922 committee of Conservatives on Tuesday night, David Cameron told his backbenchers that the Clacton byelection was a «fact of life» and confirmed the party would fight hard for the seat rather than give Carswell a walkover.

Few MPs stood up to defend the decision, although Tory backbencher Peter Bone commented: «It is not for this House to tell the established church how to run itself.»

Both men's aides insisted the show of unity around economic policy was designed to tell the country and their own querulous backbenchers that they would not change course.

I was the Labour backbencher who told the Prime Minister when he called me on Wednesday that he had a 50/50 chance of surviving until Tuesday.

Clegg said he agreed to Cameron's request for more time to persuade his backbenchers, but that the prime minister had since told him that he could not do so.

The party's home affairs spokesman Joanna Cherry told Sky's Murnaghan programme she was «already aware that a number of leading Tory backbenchers will be with us on that».

Few of these particularly virulent critics seem interested in understanding members» reasons for selecting an outsider backbencher they've repeatedly been told is entirely unelectable.

The Conservative backbencher, who was recently elected to chair the Commons» defence committee, told Politics.co.uk he wanted to see elements of an American federal system established in Britain to give much more power to parish and town councils.

Tory backbencher Bernard Jenkin told Politics.co.uk this morning he feared the government's lawyers would prevent ministers from reacting firmly to the development.