Sentences with phrase «backbenches as»

He proved nearly as good a rabble - rouser from the Tory backbenches as David Cameron, and rebuffed the surprisingly limited Tory attacks on his own position on the EU referendum with apomb.

Clegg gets big cheers from the Tory backbenches as he defends the policies of the government.

Osborne returned to the backbenches as he was sacked and replaced as Chancellor by Philip Hammond on 13 July 2016, following Theresa May's appointment as Prime Minister.

Not exact matches

Southern Ontario backbench MP Ed Holder has also been brought into the cabinet fold, replacing Rickford as minister of state for science and technology.

Backbench Conservative MP Jacob Rees - Mogg told The Times it would be «foolish» to approve a higher financial settlement for the EU, and former Tory leader Ian Duncan Smith urged the government to «sit tight» as the situation had tipped Brexit negotiation into chaos.

Some backbench Liberal MPs have been pushing for Canada to adopt a similar approach as a way to deal with the ongoing opioid crisis.

James Wharton, who shot to fame when he tried to pilot the first EU referendum bill from the backbenches, lost his Stockton South seat and his job as an international development minister on 8 June.

The changes in No 10, which have also seen former energy minister John Hayes appointed to a new post as senior parliamentary adviser, leave the position of the backbench 1922 committee in doubt.

By avoiding confrontation and by making concessionary gestures to their Coalition partner, their strategy would appear to be to «hang the Liberal Democrats out to dry»; as realistically, the Conservative Party backbench would never pass a bill mandating a grand convention to write a brand new constitution from scratch.

The vote, which took place as the Commons debates Lords amendments to the electoral registration and administration bill, will deepen already intense bitterness on the government backbenches over the coalition's stalled constitutional reform agenda.

David Cameron soon issued a statement branding the comments as «the out - of - touch views of a soonto - retire backbench MP».

You have to remember as well that this isn't an ex-minister or backbench MP, but the treasurer of the party.

The ex-defence secretary, whose 17 unbroken years on the frontline of politics came to an end on Friday, looked a little lost as he took his seat on the backbenches.

Their aim has been to prepare the ground for a backbench debate on Thursday in which MPs will hold a symbolic vote on returning to the old days when Prime Ministers had full discretion to call elections as they saw fit.

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The comments, which came as an aside during a case won by the government, triggered outrage among eurosceptics on the Tory backbenches, who said the UK had been tricked into believing it had an opt - out from the convention when Labour signed up during the Lisbon negotiations.

But the fear that other Tory MPs may follow Carswell's lead settled down later when Liam Fox — seen by many as a figure - head for right wing Tories on the backbenches — went on TV to criticise his decision.

Perhaps this week, as trade talks begin in earnest and MPs battle it out, both backbench MPs and the government would do well to look at another model of «doing» Brexit.

So as a momentous week draws to a close, Theresa has a radically reshaped Cabinet facing some really tough challenges but with some unhappy former members on the backbench.

His preparation for leadership was as non - existent as that of the more youthful Owen Smith, being on the backbenches since 1983, never needing or choosing to reflect on how to lead a team of different views, and how to project messages, frame arguments to a wider audience.

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As for the former, the regulation of the parliamentary party has been modified under the coalition government and Cameron has faced an unprecedented scale of persistent backbench revolts throughout his first term.

One Tory says that ambitious MPs who are still on the backbenches are starting to get restless: «There's a feeling of frustration,» says the MP, who is seen by many as a rising star.

Although not paid other than their salary as an MP, [1] PPSs help the government to track backbench opinion in Parliament.

The prime minister will now refer to the terror group it previously called ISIL as Daesh, after a sustained campaign from a backbench Tory MP.

There are five of these backbench policy committees, and the subject areas they cover are divided up as follows:

Some backbench critics, hoping to oust him, complained that they hadn't been given nomination papers annually as they should have.

Today's Times (#) reports last night's reshuffle as having been to prevent a coup (later clarified to say a «backbench coup «-RRB-.

Since resigning as Labour leader, Miliband has remained on the backbenches.

But a lot of this is Labour's doing, since as long as Ed Miliband's party refuses to sign up for the government motion, government backbench doubters have that much more power to extract concessions.

The move comes as a blow for the government, which is already facing backbench revolts over health reforms and is set for a battle over proposals to give schools more freedom.

The vote followed a four - hour backbench business debate on a motion endorsing a minimum level of spending on defence as 2 % of GDP — a level set by Nato — in which MPs from across the political spectrum repeatedly urged the government to protect defence spending.

I see the work that George & Andrea are doing on the EU as enough in terms of backbench representation and that no further formal or informal groups are required.

As a backbench MP, Davis continued campaigning for civil liberties.

The Speaker, who has been in his seat since 11.30 this morning without so much as a toilet break, has now limited backbench contributions to three minutes and most of the speeches are covering quite similar ground.

Their hopes and aspirations will make Salmond despair as much as the Little Englanders on the Tory backbenches.

As Professor Philip Cowley of Nottingham University notes, the current session has already seen more government backbench revolts than all but four sessions in the post-war era.

However, a period of relative obscurity on the backbenches, during which he shaved his moustache and toned - down some of his more radicalviews, led to a comeback in 2000 as Mayor of London.

As a student politician and then a backbench MP, Mullin had built his reputation on campaigning for civil liberties, working tirelessly on miscarriages of justice involving the Guildford Four and the Birmingham Six.

After Northern Ireland secretary Owen Paterson made clear he would not support gay marriage - adding his dissent to indications of opposition from defence secretary Philip Hammond and children's minister Tim Loughton - Downing Street accepted the free vote would apply to members of the government as well as backbench MPs.

But his forte, arguably, is running backbench campaigns - such as his successful push during the 1980s to scrap the Dock Labour Scheme.

Dennis Skinner is the ongest serving member of Labour's executive by a long way, having represented his fellow backbench MPs on the executive since 1999, and having previously served for twenty years as a constituency party representative.

Mr Gove, who frequently clashed with the new Prime Minister, returns to the backbenches after six years in Government as Education Secretary, Chief Whip and most recently Justice Secretary.

Khan was chairman of Labour's backbench home affairs committee, so we've often talked about issues such as identity cards and anti-terror laws.

In a backbench debate on the European Council yesterday, veteran Eurosceptic MP Bill Cash warned that a proposed fiscal union would be both undemocratic as a whole, and damage the national interests of the UK.

GEORGE Osborne banked a whopping # 320,000 last month in outside earnings as he cashed in from the backbenches.

Backbench rebellions dog Miliband's time as leader, while at the same time the Conservatives, now led by the canny Blair, are looking like real challengers.

He was seen as imperious and intolerant by backbench opponents concerned at the threat to local postal services («he seemed to have lost touch» one commented after a meeting), and the plan was abandoned by the Cabinet as unlikely to pass the House of Commons, as the Major government's majority had dropped to 14 by then.

He said he had sought to engage with ministers to find a compromise over several weeks, but without success: «The blunt reality is, and I'm sorry to have to say this to the house, I've been left in the lurch, as a backbench member trying to improve this legislation.»

Several big beasts, such as former leadership challenger Yvette Cooper and former shadow foreign secretary Hillary Benn seem out of place on the backbenches.