Sentences with phrase «backbenchers did»

I apologise in advance if the comparison is in any way offensive, but this is roughly what Nick Clegg seemed to say yesterday when he declared that since some Conservative backbenchers didn't support Lords reform he will now require all Liberal Democrat frontbenchers to oppose the boundary review.

«Actually the backbenchers do prefer a bit more of the traditional style, but I think the public probably prefer the Jeremy Corbyn style.»

Mark - my final words, backbenchers do comment on them.

It's doubtful that anyone would be able to say that of Cameron - even his backbenchers don't like him very much.

Not exact matches

In a more perfect House of Commons, such a backbencher — and this is not to single Mr. Toet out, only to use him as a convenient example — would be in the House during Question Period to do two things: represent his constituents and hold the government to account.

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

Eastleigh may not be one of the areas where the Lib Dems are struggling, however, with the party doing all it can to cling on to a seat Tory backbenchers are desperate to take.

The leader of the opposition was right to let Tory backbencher Andrew Bridgen do his job for him.

Louise Mensch spoke for most backbenchers when she demanded, in a typically understated GQ photoshoot: «What do I have to do to get promoted over here?»

It doesn't work very well, whatever uppity backbenchers claim, because the first - past - the - post system means most people aren't represented by someone they backed.

In reality, he did it because he needed to neutralise the growing rebelliousness among his backbenchers and suck some of the venom out of the threat from Ukip.

When Tory backbenchers, who despise him with a vitriol usually reserved for their party leader, did let him speak he laid into «the truly colossal failure of the chancellor's plan».

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.

I suspect the Prime Minister will test the water fairly early on and if she finds her program being blocked by bolshie backbenchers, don't be surprised if we get an early General Election.

A group of Conservative backbenchers could leave parliament in the new year if the coalition does not back down over proposed boundary changes, according to a report.

After the Labour party suspended but did not expel Ken Livingstone, backbencher Wes Streeting was...

Two MPs who have not yet announced their retirements - one Labour minister, one prominent Conservative backbencher - have already confided to me over lunch that they plan to do so in due course.

The prime minister's defense cut little ice, particularly with Mr. Miliband, the Labour leader, who called it «a catastrophic error of judgment» and brought hoots of approval from Labour backbenchers when he said of Mr. Cameron, «He just doesn't get it, Mr. Speaker.»

But to dismiss Miliband himself as a failure as leader, as centre - right commentators and Blairite backbenchers tend to do, is bizarre when the only metrics we have (by - elections, opinion polls, increasing numbers of party members) suggest that Labour is on the road to recovery.

The government is struggling to craft a motion that satisfies Liberal Democrat MPs — who in many cases owe their seats to anti-Iraq-war defections from Labour in 2005 — as well as little England Tory backbenchers who, nudged by Ukip's anti-intervention stance yesterday, fear that Nigel Farage speaks for their voters better than Cameron does.

As soon as you do, Tory backbenchers and the right - wing tabloids will come for you.

As the next general election nears disgruntled backbenchers will do more and more to get their way on specific issues, skewing the terms of engagement more and more in their favour.

Boris Johnson says the same, as do a lot of Tory backbenchers.

Instead, Chris Grayling wants to bury his head in the sand and ignore it, probably because it doesn't fit his right - wing agenda of throwing red meat to his restless backbenchers.

«I and my colleagues had to work very hard to pressurise the Home Office to do the right thing and provide sanctuary to some of the most desperately needy in the world,» said Liberal Democrat backbencher Julian Huppert, who asked the question.

The new government's majority is also smaller than the outgoing coalition's and the party's leaders will face a growing challenge from rebellious backbenchers, just as John Major, elected in similar circumstances, did after 1992.

Now, not only does this give fuel to the theory that Cameron did not enforce a hard - line on last week's vote (one person described it as a «nudge, wink» approach), but it is also likely to annoy many of the backbenchers who did remain loyal.

Whether Osborne is now officially the Tory backbenchers» favourite to replace David Cameron as party leader, as the report suggests, I don't know — but his position is certainly far less vulnerable than it was last summer, when I wrote about it for the Times (#).

But the pressure does not come only from pesky backbenchers like Owen Paterson.

I thought we were going to win in the 1992 election, but I resigned because I didn't want the life of a minister; I wanted the life of a backbencher.

The motion commended the Speaker for reasserting that Ministers should make important statements first to the Commons chamber and reiterated the importance of Ministers doing so if backbenchers are to properly hold the Government to account.

But all Cameron had to do was tee it up with a neat little pause and then thwack it into the ether for his backbenchers to roar their acclamation.

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

In fact not only did Corbyn have little in common with Labour ministers but little in common with the majority of Labour backbenchers.

David Cameron has vowed to «stay in touch» with voters as he and George Osborne were condemned by a Tory backbencher for being «arrogant posh boys» who do not know the price of milk.

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?

Whilst IDS has done much, is decent and honourable he is no ordinary backbencher.

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

«Rarely do you ever see Labour backbenchers stand up to their Cabinet colleagues, but even they have spoken out on the M4.

One that has used all its political capital on a referendum to appease its backbenchers, while doing almost nothing to tackle the real challenges facing our continent.

We don't start off as Donna and end up as Leo McGarry in this place, and no number of quickies with random backbenchers is going to change this.

Another long - serving Tory backbencher was less charitable: «We don't want Muppets being the voice of the Tory Party, and that's what we've got with Grant Yapps.»

The leader of the opposition said: «My position is no — we don't want an in / out referendum,» causing some of his own eurosceptic backbenchers to gasp.

After the Labour party suspended but did not expel Ken Livingstone, backbencher Wes Streeting was quick to confront the former London mayor over the decision.

The Tory backbencher was first out of the traps to criticise the speech on behalf of Tory Brexiteers - and Rees Mogg did not mince his words.

But unlike most backbenchers, who revert to the mindset of a five - year - old upon the slightest stimulation, he can always do with a bit of extra energy.

To do so he will need to show that career advancement is possible for his young backbenchers and limit the influence of the Liberal Democrats, who have become hate figures to many in the Tory party.

In doing so, Cameron will appeal to both the traditional wing of his parliamentary party and the country at large, although some are bound to interpret this approach as a lurch to the right, or more red meat for the PM's unruly backbenchers.

Tory backbenchers are keen to voice their support - as they do when Labour's Joan Ruddock states that the prime minister says he is proud of his welfare reforms.

A look how the recall is used in the US shows that the backbenchers are right - MPs don't have too much to fear from this new law.