Sentences with phrase «backbenchers voting»

There are also complaints about Conservative backbenchers voting against the Lords Reform Bill and Liberal Democrat ones voting, in due course, against the boundary review.

Acting Labour leader Harriet Harman had told MPs to abstain, but 48 backbenchers voted against, including eighteen newly - elected members.

Government and shadow cabinet frontbenchers abstained, and in the free vote backbenchers voted overwhelmingly in favour.

The prime minister has said he's relaxed about how backbenchers vote,» Europe minister David Lidington told politics.co.uk in an interview yesterday.

Over half his backbenchers voted against him, including two former Party leaders.

Not exact matches

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.

14:03 - The Commons chamber has started filling up again - Tory backbenchers evidently anticipating a vote very soon.

After appointing Mullin to junior office again in 2003 the Prime Minister discovered that as a backbencher he had voted against the Iraq War.

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.

Frontbenchers and backbenchers threatening to vote against triggering the Article 50 countdown, shadow business secretary Clive Lewis among them, would challenge what's left of Jeremy Corbyn's shredded authority in a rudderless party.

The Government first proposed that prisoners should have voting rights unless they'd been sentenced to four years or less but are now giving backbenchers (and PPS's) a free vote.

It would allow a single malcontent who shouts out «object» to trigger a vote — and, crucially, give Tory backbenchers unhappy with Bercow the chance to find an alternative who could actually beat the Speaker.

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.

Tory backbenchers are set to be allowed a free vote on a Commons motion opposing prisoner voting rights, PoliticsHome.come has learned.

Earlier in the week I reported that Tory backbenchers would get a free vote next Thursday on the David Davis / Jack Straw motion defying the ECHR ruling on votes for prisoners.

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.

The second change was to allow ministerial aides (Parliamentary Private Secretaries) as well as full backbenchers to vote and these received instructions from Keith Simpson, bag carrier to William Hague to vote for change.

Tory backbenchers will reportedly get a free vote when votes for prisoners are first debated next week

Some backbenchers may rebel, but Lib Dem ministers will surely have to vote yes.

Tonight Tory backbencher Nadine Dorries revealed IDS had personally begged her not to vote against disability cuts only two weeks before.

Mr Cameron voted in favour of the invasion in 2003 as a Conservative backbencher and he said all those who backed the military action should «take our fair share of responsibility».

Ministers are set for a showdown with Tory rebels over the immigration bill after it was confirmed a crucial amendment backed by restive backbenchers will be debated in the Commons.The amendment, supported by dozens of Tory MPs, would give ministers rather than judges the final say over whether deportation would breach the human rights of foreign criminals.Commons Speaker John Bercow selected the amendment tabled by Esher and Walton MP Dominic Raab in the first group for debate, meaning there will be time for a vote.

The outspoken backbencher claims Iain Duncan Smith «begged and bribed» her not to vote against his cuts to Employment Support Allowance.

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?

Raab amendment to immigration bill is defeated despite 97 MPs, many of them Conservative backbenchers, voting in favour

But if, after this vote, backbenchers and parliament are stronger against the executive, the freedoms of groups to associate together are weaker.

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.

And end the Coalition it emphatically would: No smoke and mirrors «nudge nudge, wink wink» to Lib Dem backbenchers to vote the boundary changes down whilst Ministers went through the lobby with their Conservative colleagues: No this will have to be a D'Artagnan moment: «All for one and one for all»!

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.»

Public support for a second vote is likely to embolden Mr Umunna's group of Labour backbenchers who have been urging Jeremy Corbyn to back a Norway - style soft Brexit by pushing for Britain's membership of the European Economic Area.

If the voting age is to be lowered, it should come about as a result of general acceptance in society, a campaign from backbenchers in Parliament, and / or being prominently placed in the manifesto of a winning party - all of which would follow a period of serious consideration of the issue.

In particular, the promised in / out referendum on Britain's membership of the EU could badly split the Conservative Party if Cameron campaigns for a vote to remain in the EU while many of his backbenchers — and some frontbenchers — campaign for a «Brexit».

But there were also several very high - profile retreats, over both last year's Queen's Speech and the Immigration Bill, in both cases seeing the Conservative part of the Coalition forced to allow backbenchers a free vote to avoid massive rebellions.

Despite the terse statement in the coalition agreement that «arrangements will be made to enable Liberal Democrat MPs to abstain in any vote» on proposals from Browne with which they disagree, numerous backbenchers - including the former leader Menzies Campbell - have let it be known that they plan to rebel if the party performs a U-turn in government on fees.

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A day after David Cameron bounced through a vote to end a long - standing tradition by which Tory backbenchers meet each week, the consensus is that this will come back to bite him.

«The people behind him,» Miliband explained gently to the PM about his backbenchers — often only ever behind him in the literal sense — «are cheering because they want to vote «no»».

Despite the fact that even David Miliband estimated that there were no more than ten Labour backbenchers who actually believed in the war, enough ignored their constituents» wishes and any residual principals and voted «yes», simultaneously saving Blair's skin and condemning the Iraqis to years of carnage and chaos.

The fact that the vote was called forward in the first place could simply be a reflection of deep - seated mistrust towards Cameron, ie, his backbenchers wanted to keep Cameron honest more than they actually wanted the referendum pledge put in the government's legislative programme.

It confirms the free vote for Tory ministerial aides and backbenchers is a sign of weakness.

An impasse with the Liberals would force the Tories to resort to asking helpful Conservative MPs to seek a vote in the sliver of Commons time controlled by backbenchers.

Many Labour backbenchers are set to vote against the # 20 billion plan to replace Trident while two prominent frontbenchers have already resigned to vote against the government today.

Meanwhile Conservative backbenchers informally led by former Welsh secretary Cheryl Gillan will vote against the government.

The Tory backbencher also accused Sir John of «hypocrisy» for having whipped his own MPs to vote for the Maastricht Treaty when he was prime minister and concluded:

But Labour backbenchers face a difficult dilemma over HS2 when the issue is voted on in the Commons this Thursday.

Rebel Tory backbencher Philip Davies shocked nobody earlier this year when he declared that he would vote for Trump «in a heartbeat» if he was an American.

He said: «We have seen Tory backbenchers last week defying the prime minister to vote against the Queen's Speech; former Tory chancellors openly calling for Britain to leave the European Union; serving Cabinet ministers joining the chorus at the weekend, saying they would vote for Britain to leave the EU now; and the embarrassing spectacle and truly ludicrous sight of a British prime minister in Washington negotiating an EU - US trade deal, while back home members of his own Cabinet say they would vote to exclude Britain from its benefits.»

It is now thought almost half of Tory backbenchers will vote against the proposals when the government pushes legislation through the Commons in the new year.

Another motion attacks the Government for deciding its position before the consultation exercise and deplores moves to deny Labour backbenchers a free vote.

A Yes vote in next month's referendum would greatly accelerate the secession of the already existing, and rapidly growing, right - wing party nominally still comprised of Conservative backbenchers.