Sentences with phrase «backbenchers like»

Senior backbenchers like David Lammy, and senior frontbenchers like Yvette Cooper are both taking a very different line from him.

The «Ukip tendency» in the Tory parliamentary party took root then, led by Enoch Powell and a handful of backbenchers like Neil Marten.

Binley said the Tory leader had treated his backbenchers like an «unnecessary inconvenience» on issues like Europe, gay marriage and Lords» reform.

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

Many MPs had backed an early day motion by Graham Allen demanding a recall of parliament, with prominent backbenchers like Douglas Carswell, David Davis, Graham Stuart and Phillip Davies lending their support.

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.

The chancellor acknowledged the work of individual campaigners like shadow minister Stella Creasy and Conservative backbencher Robin Walker, but refused to accept the policy had been driven from opposition.

And there was an unmistakeable message behind it to his backbenchers: «Keep acting like this and he'll be chancellor next».

Conversations over issues where the parties have a shared interest, like Lords reform, are suspected by Tory backbenchers of being used as a cover for discussions about longer - term prospects.

Julian Lewis, a Conservative backbencher, has emailed colleagues pointing out that the procedure committee hadn't ever envisaged a debate taking place quite like this.

Thanks to massive Commons rebellions on issues like the European Union and Lords reform, backbenchers will continue to attract all the attention.

Taking on a tough, apparently unwinnable fight like this follows a logic the PM has already discovered helps his cause when dealing with troublesome backbenchers and the Ukip threat they reflect.

The sense among many Tory backbenchers, whether they like Dorries or not, that her semi-permanent suspension was unjust

If this is what a lowly backbencher is like, I dread what it was like working for Gordon Brown!

Campaign groups like the Coalition For Marriage are placing intense pressure on backbenchers, having notched up over 600,000 signatures for their petition against same - sex marriage.

Installing a more Eurosceptic Europe Minister like Mark Francois, Greg Hands, Chris Heaton - Harris or Theresa Villiers - while appealing to Tory backbenchers - risks upsetting Nick Clegg (as well as Mr Clarke).

Part of the role of the backbencher is to ask awkward questions and to see what's behind the curtain, like in the Wizard of Oz.

Some like Philip Hammond will see long - term advantage in defending their department, calculating that party members and backbenchers will support them.

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

After George Osborne's Budget triumph, if the going gets rocky for the Prime Minister in the months ahead — in his attempts to re-negotiate the terms of Britain's EU membership, for example — the clamour from the Tory back benches for Mr Osborne to move next door from No. 11 to No. 10 Downing Street earlier than Mr Cameron would like will grow among those backbenchers who cheered his Budget wildly and waved their order papers in a frenzy.

But plenty of onlookers found that a curious message to be broadcasting when you're moving seasoned free - marketeers like Peter Mandelson into government and, for whatever reason, leaving out veteran left - wingers like backbencher Jon Cruddas.

One veteran backbencher summed up the week like this.

Esther Addley: But the government thought they were too like Tory backbenchers — you can't really direct them

The BBBC - which allows backbenchers proper time to debate issues that matter to them (and the public) like Europe, petrol prices, or prisoners» votes - has been one of the best things the Coalition has done to make Parliament look like the honourable and relevant institution it should be.

Nonetheless, like former education secretary Justine Greening, and Cabinet Office minister Damian Green before her, she joins the growing ranks of senior Tory backbenchers with only thinly - disguised misgivings about the direction of official Brexit policy.

Cameron is unlikely to be the victim of an accidental defenestration like Thatcher but all it takes is a resentful reaction by backbenchers to bad news to set the process in motion.

A large number of Labour backbenchers, as well as numerous Labour luminaries like Neil Kinnock and former Education Secretary Estelle Morris, made known their opposition to the proposals and published an alternative white paper.

Davis could head a team that could include people like Bernard Jenkin, Andrea Leadsom and some backbenchers who are more positive about the EU but still recognise the need for reform.

Interviewing the Tory MP Mark Pritchard, secretary of the 1922 backbenchers» committee, for Radio 4's Week in Westminster, I was startled to hear him acknowledging the logic of it: he may hate the so - called «purple plotters» who would like to fuse the Tory and Lib Dem parties, but he'd like to see «closer co-operation» between Tories and Lib Dems in every byelection.

A senior Tory backbencher said: «If we don't get an MP like Paterson or Fox or Lilley, the alternative is some corporate businessman who will go native the second they arrive in Brussels.

Permission for new grammar schools is also out of the Queen's Speech, but that's despite the DUP - which likes grammars - and simply because quite a lot of Tory backbenchers (hello Nicky Morgan) don't like them.

Conservative Home's Paul Goodman (who, like Labour's Siôn Simon, quit as an MP in May to become a blogger) quotes «senior backbenchers» who, he says, explain the PM's logic as follows:

Lib Dem MP's Commons attack on George Osborne Mr Russell ticked Mr Osborne off for his attacks on the workshy in what looked and sounded to me like the most frontal, direct Commons attack on a Tory cabinet minister by a Lib Dem backbencher since the coalition was formed - writes political editor Gary Gibbon — accusing him of being «unethical» attacking welfare cheats not tax cheats and of being «immature» in his dealings with the DWP.

Some believe he would like a shot at the top job himself, with one backbencher describing him as «the spider at the centre of the web».

The Conservative backbencher was speaking as the Daily Politics asked if politicians have been successful at persuading the electorate they are just people like the rest of us.

But Labour MP Gloria de Piero, commentator Peter York and Conservative backbencher Nadine Dorries are not convinced that the current government has been successful at persuading the electorate they are like everyone else.

Welsh Conservative MPs don't like the implication that none of them are up to the job but they are all either backbenchers or in the junior ranks of the government.

Mr Corbyn rejected calls from pro-EU figures like Lord Mandelson and a number of his own backbenchers to commit to staying in the EU single market, saying instead that he wanted a «close relationship» with it.

Liz Truss was also well liked by backbenchers in the role and there has been talk of her as a future Education Secretary.

Indeed, Conservative backbenchers and the media seem to be increasingly interested in the lack of vision and ideas across Whitehall as Brexit, just like before, takes centre stage at the expense of virtually all domestic policy issues.