Sentences with phrase «backbenchers who»

Newsnight's political editor Allegra Stratton says the Conservative backbenchers who will be causing David Cameron trouble in a few weeks» time are celebrating tonight.

The legislation was introduced under Labour and is unpopular among Tory backbenchers who complain it opens up British law to interference from Europe.

Fresh from their resounding success in defeating AV, many Conservative MPs have started talking to Labour backbenchers who also voted No in the referendum trying to form a new alliance to defeat the proposals to reform the House of Lords, announced by Nick Clegg yesterday.

He will be caught in the gulf between his backbenchers who want to leave and what he can negotiate.

He's not impressing Tory backbenchers who are just about to rebel, that's for sure.

The demand will enrage many Tory backbenchers who want a tough negotiator to replace Baroness Ashton later this year.

It was angry Lib Dem backbenchers who forced Mr Osborne to the Commons on Monday to explain his plans amid complaints the squeeze would hit the most vulnerable despite assurances all cuts would be made in a «fair» way.

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.

A year on from his speech, an agenda he can't even set out because he is caught between his backbenchers who really want to leave and his knowledge that it is in our interests to stay in.

Soubry said: «Both political parties have a number of backbenchers who feel differently from their frontbenches.

Any cut would most obviously affect those currently in the inner sanctum who can expect top jobs, which may surprise some of the party's backbenchers who felt the Tory leadership protected their own so - called Notting Hill set while being happy to hang out to dry old guard backbenchers such as Anthony Steen, who stood down over the expenses scandal.

Diane Abbott has blamed Jeremy Corbyn's struggles at Prime Minister's Questions on «sulking» Labour backbenchers who refuse to rally behind the leader.

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.

It's a sop to Liberal Democrat backbenchers who at long last may be showing signs of rebelling as one totemic Liberal Democrat education policy after another is sacrificed to Tory ideology.»

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.

That is certainly true but it is Tory backbenchers who attack the Liberal Democrats while it is Liberal Democrat frontbenchers who attack the Tories.

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.

There had been speculation that the measure would be brought forward to appease some Conservative backbenchers who are unhappy at David Cameron's plans to allow gay marriage.

One MP said there was «real anger» among backbenchers who had come back from a gruelling election campaign.

Those backbenchers who brought down Lords reform last year could have a heavy responsibility to bear.

ITV News» Chris Ship said Tristram Hunt and Mary Creagh were also among the prominent backbenchers who departed early.

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.

What this victory will give May (as well as the chance to crush Labour before it comes to its senses and gets itself a new leader) is a whole bunch of new Tory backbenchers who, whatever their views on Europe and other issues, will know full well that they owe their place on the green benches mainly to her.

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.

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.

His biggest concern is from the core backbenchers who, despite the good feeling generated by the recent No 10 Rose Garden barbecue, continue to cause trouble.

The Conservative leader was detonated by Labour backbenchers who, for shame, shouted «Tory» as Cameron raised former defence chiefs» «disingenuous» accusations about Gordon Brown's Iraq inquiry evidence.

«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.»

The government is struggling to craft a motion that satisfies Liberal Democrat MPs — who in many cases owe their seats to anti-Iraq-war defections from Labour in 2005 — as well as little England Tory backbenchers who, nudged by Ukip's anti-intervention stance yesterday, fear that Nigel Farage speaks for their voters better than Cameron does.

The decision to hold a major review leaves the door open for advocates of more radical thinking, and reflects the political imperative to keep alive the hopes of those Conservative backbenchers who wish to see a more wholehearted, and perhaps simplified, model of EVEL.

Labour backbenchers who want to cause trouble for the Tories have only limited scope, however.

A number of Tory backbenchers who would lose their seat under the proposed changes also rebelled, including David Davis, Andrew Percy, Andrew Bridgen, Glyn Davies, Philip Davies, Richard Shepherd and John Baron.

It was a thrashing, plain and simple, won by the backbenchers who cheered Cameron home.

Baldry is one of the 11 Tory backbenchers who are co-signatories of the bill.

, 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.)

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.

«Andrew Lansley's revelation makes clear that there are still significant questions to be asked,» says Jesse Norman, the Conservative backbencher who led yesterday's debate.

The Conservative backbencher who topped a ballot for private member's bills will be given Parliamentary time to push for a referendum by 2017 deciding the UK's future in, or out, of the European Union.

Nadine Dorries, a Tory backbencher who is starting to gain a reputation for adopting Christian positions on moral issues, introduced the ten minute rule bill, which would «require schools to provide certain additional sex education to girls aged between 13 and 16» and «to provide that such education must include information and advice on the benefits of abstinence from sexual activity».

This is a principle Mr Hoyle, a Labour backbencher who has not been afraid to stand up to the government in the past, is looking to apply with his bill.

8.04 pm: Geraldine Smith, the backbencher who has criticised the rebels strongly but who is also opposed to government policy on the Royal Mail, said after the meeting:

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.

Then came an unfortunate question from a Labour backbencher who had got mixed up with her economic figures.

A Tory backbencher who has formally asked for a no confidence vote in David Cameron is being hauled before the chief whip.

Jon Cruddas, a backbencher who had been tipped to take part in the contest, has said that he will not be a candidate.

6.23 pm: Good quote from Ronnie Campbell, a leftwing backbencher who appears on John Rentoul's roll of honour (see 5.55 pm) because he did not support Brown for leader in 2007.

A Conservative backbencher who claimed MPs should be talking about issues that matter to voters ahead of the rebel EU amendment on Europe, is to introduce a bill paving the way for a referendum on the UK's EU membership.

There will be more than one backbencher who rose in search of lunch with something of a sense of relief.

I think David Cameron, on the whole, has done exceedingly well and the way he riposted with five specific things to a Labour backbencher who challenged him to say what he would have done to alleviate recession was top - class.

Heidi Allen, the freshman Tory backbencher who shocked many by speaking out against cuts to tax credits in the House of Commons, has praised IDS for his resignation.