Sentences with phrase «backbenchers when»

The result blocks a Conservative effort to allow Bercow to be challenged by Tory backbenchers when the next parliament meets and elects its Speaker.

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.»

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?»

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.

Not exact matches

Although Grant, as a Red Tory, tended to support the Conservative Party, he would scarcely be enthusiastic about what that party has become today under Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who moved two years ago to shut down a backbencher's effort to reopen the issue of when human life begins.

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.

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:

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 backbencher has served for 22 years and was criticised when it was revealed his designated second home was in London, even though his main home is within the commuter belt.

Perhaps the title is somewhat misleading as Morrison was an early starter with his political career, being a minister in 1929 when Clement Attlee was still a backbencher.

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».

But the most striking part of the day came at the very beginning of proceedings in the Commons, when Nick Clegg was mercilessly subjected to a barrage of cruel and unusual punishment by Tory backbenchers.

The result is the kind of partisan sniping I saw in the Commons chamber last week, when Labour backbencher Diana Johnson suggested to deputy PM Nick Clegg that «political donations arising from the proceeds of crime» ought to be given back.

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.

He was an obscure left - wing backbencher going up against some of the Labour leadership's leading lights; when the race began, oddsmakers gave him a 100 to one shot at victory.

Next Monday the prime minister will come face to face with those backbenchers — well, sort of — when he answers their questions at the despatch box.

Their backbenchers will normally have a feel for how things have gone, but when the contest is close, the result often becomes the one they read in the Standard in the Tea Room.

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.

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 (#).

However, the Conservative»» coalition partners remain fiercely opposed to any changes to the current law and Chris Huhne, the Lib Dem energy secretary, said: «If Conservative backbenchers persist in wanting to tear up the European Convention on Human Rights, then I can foresee a time when this party would be extremely uncomfortable in coalition.»

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.

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

«That this House commends the Speaker on the action he has taken over the past year to reassert the principle that Ministers ought to make statements to the House before they are made elsewhere; notes that paragraph 9.1 of the Ministerial Code says that when Parliament is in session, the most important announcements of Government policy should be made in the first instance in Parliament; believes that compliance with this principle is essential for backbenchers to be able to represent the interests of their constituents and hold the Government to account; and invites the Procedure Committee to consider how the rules of the House could be better used or, if necessary, changed to ensure compliance with this principle and to develop a protocol for the release of information.»

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

McDonnell tried to stand for the leadership in 2007 when he was a backbencher but was thwarted by a lack of nominations from parliamentary colleagues.

But Mr Cameron came under pressure to act when Labour backbencher John Mann complained to standards commissioner John Lyon about elder son Henry.

A Conservative backbencher suggesting a pact with UKIP said Nigel Farage has got «a lot of talent» when asked if the smaller party leader could serve as a minister in a Tory government.

Clegg told Radio 4's Today programme: «The Conservative party have been tearing themselves [apart] on Europe so they have now plucked out of thin air an arbitrary date, 2017, when a referendum would take place... on the back of what I predict will be a largely synthetic renegotiation of the terms of Britain's membership that won't satisfy their backbenchers.

It's actually the third time they've met, they were introduced to eachother when they were both up - and - coming backbenchers.

But when Conservative backbencher Douglas Carswell asked about the role of civil servants in the government and suggested they were blocking ministerial action, he received a humiliating response from the prime minister.

As one backbencher observed, our legislators often make their worst decisions when the three main parties agree.

The Conservative leadership is thought to oppose an immediate recall when most MPs and ministers are on holiday, but some backbenchers have expressed support.

Cameron appeared to subtly shift his language during prime minister's questions yesterday, when Tory backbencher Charlotte Leslie - who also wants Nicholson to quit - pressed him on the issue.

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.

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.

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.

When TP suggested this to one powerful eurosceptic Tory backbencher, he seemed interested.

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.

«It is astonishing that at a time when millions of families and pensioners are being hit hard by deep spending cuts and tax rises, the first priority of David Cameron's restless Tory backbenchers is unfair tax cuts only for a few,» Labour Treasury spokesman David Hanson said.

Ed Miliband has bent over backwards to find a position which reassures critical voters without compromising his progressive principles, but when it comes to Labour's election leaflets they might as well have been written by Tory backbenchers.

The new Conservative backbencher made a splash when he sent an email encouraging the Tories to recapture the debate on health reforms by insisting «red lines» must not be crossed by Liberal Democrats.

Mr Bercow should build on this work and leave a legacy which will survive the end of coalition government and give backbenchers enduring influence when the House falls back into the control of a single party.

He was best known for his impressive use of parliamentary procedure to thwart the plans of both government and backbenchers to introduce new legislation, particularly when he felt it was being rushed through.

Tory backbencher Mark Reckless showed how dangerous events had become for the prime minister when he sarcastically asked: «Will the prime minister explain precisely what he's vetoed?»

The policy was readily adopted by the coalition because it is Lib - Dem friendly and could save the Treasury money, but with public attitudes hardening since the riots and Tory backbenchers increasingly restless, observers worry it will be rolled back when parliament returns.

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.

Mr Brown will come under further pressure on Monday when he addresses backbenchers at a meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party.

I was the Labour backbencher who told the Prime Minister when he called me on Wednesday that he had a 50/50 chance of surviving until Tuesday.