Sentences with phrase «backbenchers not»

Miller is one of the most talented, high profile Tory backbenchers not brought back into government post-2015, and her Committee has regularly taken the government to task on a range of issues: Traveller communities, transgender rights, disability, and employment opportunities for Muslims.

Not exact matches

A caucus of some 60 hard - line backbenchers is preparing to break openly with the government's declared strategy of trying to soften the blow of leaving the EU's single market by arranging a transitional period, during which which the U.K. would still pay into the EU's budget and not be able to sign its own trade deals.

Calgary backbencher Len Webber quit the Tory caucus, saying he could not longer stomach Redford's temper tantrums and abuse of subordinates.

, which is not entirely fair, as most anyone who follows federal politics will know Mr. Wilks as the backbencher who was very briefly concerned about one of last year's budget bills.)

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.

He, and backbenchers on the opposition side, would be free to stand up every so often and ask a question of the government about some matter of particular concern to him or his constituents — a question that had not been vetted by anyone with any authority over him.

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.

Nevertheless, the government is (or was when we went to press) determined not to allow its own backbenchers any freedom of conscience when it comes to the main vote in the Commons.

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.

Tory backbenchers have shown their true colours in recent months, not least when a group of them released their Alternative Queen's Speech, which included plans to:

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.

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.

«The issue was believability - not because there is an issue between the prime minister and his backbenchers but between politicians in general and the electorate,» he says.

Labour backbencher Steve Rotherham called for the original inquest, which concluded on the advice of its pathologist that it need not consider what occurred after 15:15 on the day, to be quashed.

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

Were not going to try to suck up to the editors of the red top newspapers or try and throw red meat to backbencher MPs.

Redwood was not the only eurosceptic backbencher normally suspicious of Cameron's intentions who was now purring quiescently.

Many Labour MPs were absent, but their backbenchers were not bereft of those looking for criticism.

Sports minister Hugh Robertson, responding to a written question from Lib Dem backbencher Simon Wright, made clear the government was not prepared to change its mind on the issue.

Rebellious Conservative backbenchers are showing more discipline, not least because of his efforts to reach out to them with more upbeat polling details.

Backbenchers shouldn't be persecuted for trying to get re-elected.

And despite the noisy tory backbenchers, the complicity of Nick Clegg and the invisibility of Ed Miliband, there are plenty of people in the UK who welcome being in the EU, able to travel, and work, and set up businesses, trade freely, influence EU foreign policy and climate change policies — who will not want the UK to be a small cut off island on the edge of the continent, with no influence in Europe let alone the wider world.

The government also appears to have decided that it will not be able to proceed with this reform on any kind of cross-party basis, and so is keen to test out the conviction that the procedural reforms associated with EVEL will be employed on sufficiently few occasions that they may slip from political consciousness, while also looking substantive enough to satisfy the aspirations of its backbenchers.

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.

One's growing sense that the leader's smile is fake: de jure coalition with a de facto sense that these - are - not - my - people, by backbenchers, activists, members and supporters of both parties.

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.»

«It is one that is not going to happen and I think that those backbenchers who keep putting forward those sorts of ideas should just come out and accept that what they really want is for Britain to leave the European Union because that is the argument they are actually making.»

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.

Labour backbenchers on the procedure committee aren't impressed by Hague's unexpected last - minute motion, produced yesterday evening, for a one - hour debate on the issue later today.

Putting Johnson in charge of the Tory manifesto could also anger Tory backbenchers, who consider Boris» brother on the far - left of the party — not least because of his moderate stance on the EU.

Many say the PM needs to take time to make his backbenchers feel special but in the next breath complain that he isn't focusing enough on the economy.

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

The Lib Dems are eminently placable opponents of an in / out referendum on the EU: they know Cameron's backbenchers won't accept it being dropped, and besides, ruling out the public having a say on Europe isn't such a good look for a party with the word «Democrat» in their name.

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.

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.

This is something backbenchers have been pushing for over the past year — and there are more than 100 of them by one count — so not only would a Bill help the party on the doorstep when it comes to the European elections in 2014, but it will also cheer up MPs.

Mark Reckless, a leading eurosceptic among the 81 Conservative backbenchers who defied David Cameron last month, said an EU referendum was a matter of «when» and not «if» after the Tory revolt.

It is understood Labour is not ruling out backing the Tory rebels, who already have the support of a number of pro-EU Labour backbenchers.

There is a growing frustration from many Conservative backbenchers that their views are not being listened to.

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 (#).

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

But there are signs that some in the Conservative whips» office are not going to put the heaviest squeeze on as many as 100 Tory backbenchers who currently oppose the plan.

Whitehall reform isn't just about ministers versus civil servants, but also ministers versus backbenchers

So it's more likely than not that if one adds votes against to abstentions over half of all Tory backbenchers failed to support it.

Some backbenchers have not yet digested the fact that the wrong Miliband had won the leadership election.

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