Sentences with phrase «by labour backbencher»

The letter, co-ordinated by Labour backbencher David Lammy, was signed by MPs from Labour, the Liberal Democrats, the SNP, Plaid Cymru and the Greens as well as one Conservative, Anne - Marie Morris.

But her comparison with the notorious anti-communist witch - hunt by US senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s was branded as «facile» by Labour backbencher Stephen Pound, who said MPs had only themselves to blame for their current difficulties.

The NHS Bill 2015 campaigners see their proposed NHS Reinstatement Bill as complementary to - but likely to go further than - a private members Bill by Labour backbencher Clive Efford MP.

Her comments follow the tabling of an early day motion by Labour backbencher Virendra Sharma condemning Mr Griffin's participation in Question Time.

Questioned on the issue by Labour backbencher Gordon Prentice during business questions yesterday, Mr Straw confirmed that there would be a statement explaining the government's position before any debate on replacing the submarine system was held.

The Speaker appeared to mock the prime minister for not answering a question put to him by a Labour backbencher at PMQs.

The prime minister has been skewered by Labour backbencher Yvette Cooper for the second time in...

The prime minister has been skewered by Labour backbencher Yvette Cooper for the second time in recent weeks.

Their exchanges will be judged a success by Labour backbenchers, after Miliband effectively riled Cameron to back up negative impressions about the shortness o the prime minister's temper.

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.

A bill to part - privatise the Royal Mail had been due to go before the Commons earlier this year but an extensive campaign by Labour backbenchers forced the government to back down.

His announcement has been welcomed by some Labour backbenchers - Stephen Pound said it was a «dignified statement», although warned it could have come earlier.

Speaking to the Guardian in his first interview since the attempted coup by Labour backbenchers, the prime minister made an unprecedentedly frank series of observations on his time in office, reflecting that the recent weeks have been the worst of his political life.

Not exact matches

The reform has been labelled a «bedroom tax» by Labour, which has encouraged its backbenchers to bombard David Cameron over the issue in prime minister's questions.

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

These recommendations will be welcomed by opposition parties, Labour backbenchers and civil rights campaigners, who have long argued for the element of intent to be included in the terrorism proposals.

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.

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 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.

As the shouts and jeers of Labour backbenchers seeped through the cracks, several hacks shuffled closer to the doors, only to be warned off by guards standing a short distance away.

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.

Labour's failure to nominate any female candidates for the upcoming mayoral elections has been mocked by one its most prominent female backbenchers.

Parliament is «haemorrhaging public confidence» by failing to return early to debate the crisis in the Middle East, a Labour backbencher has warned.

That's the question asked by one Labour backbencher.

He instantly commences some audience participation by getting Labour backbenchers to yell «DOWN!»

Another potential by - election possibility is Falkirk, the seat of Labour backbencher Eric Joyce.

He's had a rapid rise to the Shadow Cabinet since becoming an MP just two years ago and will be surrounded by former cabinet and junior ministers on the Labour benches as well as long - serving backbenchers.

But if those backbenchers start to make trouble, the Prime Minister may need to work occasionally with some combination of Lib Dem, SNP and even Labour MPs to assemble issue - by - issue majorities in Parliament, not least on the vexed matter of Britain's membership of the European Union.

He is followed by the Health Secretary Alan Johnson (18.1 per cent); the backbencher Jon Cruddas (11.3 per cent); the Justice Secretary Jack Straw (9.6 per cent); Labour's deputy leader Harriet Harman (6.6 per cent); the left - winger John McDonnell (6.5 per cent); the Work and Pensions Secretary James Purnell (3.2 per cent); and the Schools Secretary Ed Balls (2 per cent).

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.

Unfortunately the Government is more concerned with placating its most extreme backbenchers than listening to businesses, whilst the Labour party continue to abdicate their responsibilities by giving the Government a blank cheque on Brexit.»

For all these reasons Labour backbenchers are urging our frontbench not to follow the lines we see in CCHQ press releases and follow the arguments advanced by hard right Tory ministers on these issues.»

But on Sky News Labour backbencher Geraldine Smith, the MP for Morecambe and Lunesdale, condemned «a small bunch of malcontents» and said she was «absolutely disgusted» by the move.

Several prominent members of Labour's 2015 intake, including shadow ministers, will support the move, which was tabled yesterday by Margaret Hodge and Ann Coffey and has already been backed by several backbenchers.

Other Labour backbenchers argue that in times of financial difficulty, shoppers are quick to begin saving money by shopping around and targeting sales, which pushes down costs.

«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.

Just 22 per cent of the Labour backbenchers polled by the BBC said they would back their party's official policy.

In other categories, the Labour MP and former public accounts committee chair Margaret Hodge could pick up the award for «Best Non-Fiction by a Parliamentarian» and Tory backbencher Nadine Dorries is up against Jeffrey Archer and Melvyn Bragg to win «Best Fiction by a Parliamentarian».

Laura Moffat, the Labour backbencher whose Crawley seat is the most marginal in the country, was singled out for praise by the Daily Telegraph.

Meanwhile, a survey of Labour backbenchers by this newspaper discloses that almost half of those who responded either refused to support Mr Brown or wanted him to step down.

Labour's Karl Turner joked that the Clacton by - election was being held on David Cameron's birthday and asked how many other surprises were expected from his backbenchers.

The amendment tabled by the rebel Tory backbencher Dominc Raab was defeated 241 to 97 votes after Labour and the Liberal Democrats voted against the measure.

In a sign that something close to a civil war was breaking out another Labour backbencher, Geraldine Smith, said she was disgusted by Purnell's «self - indulgent disloyalty» and insisted most Labour MPs were sticking by the prime minister.

The influential backbencher Jon Cruddas, who is on the left of the parliamentary party and whom some consider to be a «kingmaker», described it as «the most important speech by a Labour politician for many years».

For me, the most fascinating and shameful details are contained in the paper's A-to-Z list of items claimed, including two boxes of Tampax claimed by a male MP, and a quiche flan dish bought on eBay by the wife of a Labour backbencher as part of a 110 - piece dinner set.

His claim that Cameron's questions on the economy were «talking down Britain» - later repeated by a numbing Labour backbencher - were abysmally dirty.

The Accidental Leader by Alistair Beaton recounts a disgruntled Labour backbencher coordinating frontbench resignations to overthrow his party's leader.

Backbencher Lisa Nandy, who has been tipped by some as a future leader of Labour, told Sky News there was a sense among voters that Labour «doesn't really have the answers to the big challenges that people face».

Mr Corbyn was also blasted yesterday by senior backbencher Frank Field, who accused his supporters of forming an «execution squad» against Labour MPs.