Sentences with phrase «backbenchers at»

Three members of the Cabinet — Mrs Rudd, communities secretary Sajid Javid and international development secretary Liam Fox — have been guests of Polak in Israel, although they were backbenchers at the time.

Mr Brown is expected to face backbenchers at a meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party on Monday night, a confrontation that could decide his fate.

Mr Brown will come under further pressure on Monday when he addresses backbenchers at a meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party.

He's been holding drinks parties for Conservative backbenchers at 11 Downing Street and has hosted a Sunday lunchtime barbecue for MPs at Dorneywood, the grace - and - favour mansion where John Prescott notoriously played croquet on the lawn.

But as prime minister, he can no longer afford to make deals with his backbenchers at the expense of making decisions in the national interest.»

The Speaker appeared to mock the prime minister for not answering a question put to him by a Labour backbencher at PMQs.

Not exact matches

The Commons exchanges also saw Labour backbencher John Woodcock say shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry was «not fit to stand at that despatch box» after she warned many foreign parties were now acting like the Assad regime.

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.

Something backbenchers will instinctively shy away from is the possibility of making it easier for the public to work out which of them are not very good at their jobs.

As he will be 67 at the time of the election, the backbencher said it was time for him to step down.

There is now no resistance to this movement at the top of British politics, apart from among a few stubborn Tory backbenchers and the minority of Lib Dems who still remember what the word liberal actual means.

By realising, first of all, that the internal dynamics of the Conservative backbenchers are not at all simple.

But the most striking part of the day came at the very beginning of proceedings in the Commons, when Nick Clegg was mercilessly subjected to a barrage of cruel and unusual punishment by Tory backbenchers.

Currently crossbench peer Lord Hylton, who sports a long white Santa style beard, is competing at the top of the poll with Labour backbencher Ian Murray who only stopped shaving in the summer.

Speaking to PoliticsHome later, the backbencher added: «I think the Labour party needs to hold a mirror up to itself and ask if we really want our events to resemble Trump rallies where journalists are booed and hissed at for doing their job.

Many argue that Conservative backbenchers would be furious at the prospect of another Con - Lib coalition, especially one without an EU referendum, but the consequences for the Tories of a confidence - and - supply agreement could be worse.

There will be few Tory backbenchers happy at being depicted as a bunch of angry old men.

He was an obscure left - wing backbencher going up against some of the Labour leadership's leading lights; when the race began, oddsmakers gave him a 100 to one shot at victory.

If Labour goes ahead with its plan to argue for more time and oppose the government motion, and if three dozen Tory and Liberal Democrat backbenchers join forces, then, with the support of at least some of the minor parties, a government defeat or a pyrrhic win is far from impossible.

Panic bells were clamouring in Downing Street tonight and Conservative Campaign Headquarters was thrown into turmoil at claims that glamour - denuded, «post-political» and IPSA - impoverished backbencher J.Alfred Prufrock is poised to issue a historic challenge today to David Cameron for the Tory leadership.

Yet it still allows a humble backbencher to directly challenge the man at the helm of our nation.

But you hear no shortage of Conservative backbenchers saying that David Cameron is «not Tory enough» or «not Tory at all.»

Conservative backbencher Jacob Rees - Mogg accused the government of parliamentary «jiggery - pokery» and Tory MP Julian Lewis said there was no case for a debate «at the 11th hour».

Next Monday the prime minister will come face to face with those backbenchers — well, sort of — when he answers their questions at the despatch box.

Commons Speaker John Bercow has hit back at his enemies, from Tory backbenchers and political journalists to prime minister David Cameron, in an extraordinarily outspoken show of defiance.

I understand that the invitation for the last meeting was extended to at least two members who are no longer on the NPF (Michael Cashman and Joanne Milligan), and one person at the meeting no longer qualifies (Kate Green was a representative of the PLP (i.e. backbenchers) but is now a shadow minister.

Backbenchers will request a meeting with Mandelson, hoping to persuade him of the political arguments against a third runway, and remind him of the number of Labour MPs in marginal constituencies in its vicinity who would suffer at the ballot box.

David Cameron is likely to be questioned about Mrs Miller in Prime Minister's Questions this lunchtime and then Tory backbenchers will have a chance to voice their concerns at a meeting of the party's influential 1922 committee.

Even Lib Dem backbenchers, however disgruntled, can not relish a probable massacre at the polls.

He has been appointed a minister of state in the Cabinet Office and will attend the key morning and afternoon strategy meetings in Downing Street, giving Tory backbenchers reassurance that they have an ambassador at Cameron's court.

A number of Labour backbenchers have lined up to criticise him, with at least two openly calling for him to quit.

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.

Visibly confident, jocular and at ease, Eagle read out quotes from disgruntled Tory backbenchers including London mayoral candidate Zac Goldsmith, in a performance which was reminiscent of the former era of PMQs, before Corbyn was elected.

Look at the behaviour of Tory backbenchers under John Major's leadership, when a slimmer majority didn't affect their discipline one jot.

«Everyone knows David Cameron's Conservatives have a women problem - the women's minister admits it and even one of his own backbenchers has revealed that under this prime minister, there's little room at the top table for women,» she said.

This morning, Conservative backbenchers are claiming victory, in the aftermath of the rate being set at in yesterday's budget at 28 per cent.

But it has to wrap up by 4 pm, the government itself has tabled dozens of its own amendments (in addition to the ones tabled by rebel backbenchers) and, at this stage, it is not clear how many votes we will actually get.

This is a slight decline since the last parliament, as many longstanding backbenchers, who employed relatives, stood down at the election.

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.

There had been speculation that the measure would be brought forward to appease some Conservative backbenchers who are unhappy at David Cameron's plans to allow gay marriage.

Half of all Conservative MPs were elected for the first time at the last election, and Tory backbenchers have rebelled more since it took place than in any previous post-war Parliament.

Senior Labour backbencher and former minister Frank Field said: «If last night's vote heralds the start of Ukip's serious assault into Labour's neglected core vote, all bets are off for safer, let alone marginal seats at the next election.»

Among those at the Chequers summit will be key backbenchers such as Graham Brady, the chair of the influential 1922 committee of MPs and the former Attorney General, Dominic Grieve.

A rising star to look out for at the party's conference is the backbencher Tim Farron.

12.30 pm: Lots of laughter in Commons after Speaker says to Labour benches that they should not jeer at Tory backbenchers (Harriet Baldwin) who support the Government.

Appalled: Backbencher Claire Perry (left) was behind the report, while fellow Tory MP Andrea Leadsom (right) said porn swapping was rife at her son's school

Speaking at a tetchy meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party, in which MPs lined up to denounce Harman, the backbencher Michael Connarty asked the deputy leader to «examine her conscience».

But after his backbenchers and backwoodsmen made plain this was one thing they would not wear, Cameron threw both the Tory machine and the considerable Tory bankbook at the operation.

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