Sentences with phrase «backbenchers on»

But the main political story this morning is the attack by Liberal Democrat backbenchers on Sir Philip Green, appointed last week by David Cameron to help find efficiency savings.

But this is different: Labour's current convulsions have not resulted in a moderate leader trying to rein in restive backbenchers on the fringes of the party.

Will stop David Cameron being ambushed by Conservative backbenchers on EU policy, as he was by John Baron's amendment to the Queen's Speech.

A refusal to serve would certainly place a dangerous and bitter man on the backbenches but that would still be better than being caught between an over-mighty and over-confident chancellor on one side, and a great many unhappy and restless backbenchers on the other.

It would get rid of the troublesome Tory backbenchers on the party's extreme and moderate wings who are increasingly bullish about that small majority of hers.

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.

The landmark Brexit legislation will now return to the Commons, where the Prime Minister is expected to face tough battles against her own backbenchers on customs arrangements, the Northern Irish border and parliamentary scrutiny, among other issues.

Backbenchers on the Commons» defence committee painted a bleak picture of Afghanistan's future after international forces finally hand over full control to the Afghan National Security Force in 2015.

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.

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.

Tom will undoubtedly continue to be a very fine backbencher on the issues he mentions in his resignation letter:

Not exact matches

DECEMBER The Property Council launched a strong campaign on the GST 2005 issue, forming industry allies and widening lobbying efforts to include ministers and backbenchers from all parties.

Conservative backbencher Lawrence Toet and Public Safety Minister Vic Toews then performed a similar routine on the subject of Thomas Mulcair's driving.

I sat on a committee of Liberal backbenchers when the whole bank merger issue arose and when the banks themselves, the CEOs of the banks, wanted to expand into the U.S. and merge with a lot of the American banks, which would have caused us the same kind of turmoil that befell the Americans.

While the New Democrats continue to try to shame Conservative backbenchers — see Olivia Chow's statement on Monday and Niki Ashton's statement on Tuesday — the Conservatives have responded by finding new ways to lament for the prospect of a cap - and - trade system.

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 coalition's interest in a Labour backbencher's proposals on early intervention faces the acid test - with a demand for # 10 million.

Even Andrew Bellingham was firmly slapped on the back by his fellow backbenchers.

12:27 - After a question on knife crime, Rob Flello - the Labour backbencher - raises the European arrest warrant.

A prime example is cited in the chapter on Liam Fox, whose troubles were seized on by the tenacious Labour backbencher John Mann.

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.

Labour backbencher Jess Phillips will take to the West End stage later this month, as Hamlet is put on trial for stabbing Polonius through the arras.

Instead of trying to get his backbenchers back in line, the Prime Minister should be spending his time getting the country back on track.

It may be tempting to secure senior parliamentary support for an issue, but from a campaigning perspective it is often better to build strong cross-party links among backbenchers as they are better able to table questions and put on pressure.

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.

The prime minister also faced questions on Europe from opposition backbenchers, including the DUP's Nigel Dodds who repeated calls for a referendum and former business minister Pat McFadden.

The document comes on the same day that Mr Cameron faced down a rebellion from his backbenchers following an attempt to change the rules of the 1922 committee so ministers can also vote for the chairman.

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.

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.

Holding his backbenchers in check on Europe has been ever more difficult to achieve, however, given the disproportionate number of hard - line Eurosceptics among the 2010 intake of Conservative MPs and the increasing discontent on the Conservative backbenches with the constraints of being in a coalition with the Liberal Democrats.

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.

Conservative backbenchers are preparing to defy their leader over the EU referendum in another sign of David Cameron's weakness on Europe.

The current endeavor by Tory backbenchers to repeal the Act is based on a simple calculation — most forecasts predict that the 2015 general elections will result in another hung Parliament, in which the joint seat share of the two dominant parties, Labour and the Conservatives, will be eroded even further.

Backbenchers and political journalists piled the praise on Eagle after today's performance, while a shadow cabinet member suggested that many Labour MPs preferred Eagle's «confrontational» style to Jeremy Corbyn's «calm» approach.

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.

Taking up Cameron on this point, Andrew Tyrie - arguably the most important Tory backbencher who needs to be won over on EVEL - carefully questioned the prime minister on the precise definitions of what he is actually seeking.

I think there are two types of MP independentness, both cabinet and backbencher, depending on where it intervenes in the legislative process.

Cameron has made serious inroads on the task of keeping his party on board by always meeting groups of backbenchers in the Commons after Wednesday's PMQs, and regularly holding drinks receptions for them in No10.

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.

Having worked in a number of think tanks down the years, I always found that backbenchers were the least interested in our work, while we were on first name terms with the most senior politicians - people who recognised the power of (new) ideas.

The bearded Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn criticised the Tory benches and their position on Human Rights and their support for a «Bill of Rights», making an emphatic argument that MPs should, «take a moment to praise the European Court of Human Rights & European Court of Justice and stop listening to the neanderthal voices behind him [the Tory backbenchers] in what was a very important step in improving the human rights after the second world war.»

But the resistance of backbenchers to development on their patches, the ambiguity of the Liberal Democrats (some of whom are pushing More Garden Cities Now), the lateness of part of the Treasury push and the long timetable for building houses conspire against the Chancellor getting big housing growth in the little - more - than - two - year - period between now and the general election.

Rebellions by Liberal Democrat backbenchers have been sufficiently problematic for the current government that some reasonably argue that the Tories could only rely on Lib Dem ministers in a second coalition.

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 Health Secretary has gradually moved, partly under pressure from Conservative backbenchers, to put some of the blame where it belongs - on the consequences of Labour's command and control targets regime.

Later on, The Times» Matt Chorley asked the home secretary whether she would behaving differently on Brexit if she was a backbencher.

This is the reason PMQs is becoming easier for him; the backbenchers are less inclined to go on the offensive, making it much more straightforward for him to work them up into a frenzy of anti-Labour hissing.

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.