Sentences with phrase «by backbenchers»

Liz Truss was also well liked by backbenchers in the role and there has been talk of her as a future Education Secretary.

The Conservatives have united behind their EU referendum strategy, but are hampered by backbenchers» barely concealed suspicion that their party leader is a closet Europhile.

Cameron is unlikely to be the victim of an accidental defenestration like Thatcher but all it takes is a resentful reaction by backbenchers to bad news to set the process in motion.

His move was welcomed by backbenchers including Siobhain McDonagh, who was sacked as a whip after calling for a leadership election last year, and the Nottingham North MP, Graham Allen.

That has seen the coalition's leaders criticised by its backbenchers, including Nadine Dorries calling David Cameron and George Osborne «arrogant posh boys» yesterday.

They point to his propensity for long, meandering speeches to kill off pieces of nascent legislation, such as attempts by backbenchers to regulate payday lenders and to stop rogue landlords evicting tenants asking for basic repairs.

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.

Cameron's initial support for his bold stance on the EU was then met with aggravation by backbenchers, who capitalised upon the open - ended nature of his pledge and have remained a thorn in his side ever since.

This means it has to be sponsored by backbenchers rather than ministers, with 29 - year - old James Wharton, MP for Stockton South, taking it through the Commons over the last few Fridays.

One's growing sense that the leader's smile is fake: de jure coalition with a de facto sense that these - are - not - my - people, by backbenchers, activists, members and supporters of both parties.

Ed Miliband used a speech to the Progress conference yesterday to claim Cameron was being «pushed around by his backbenchers».

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

He says Cameron has been «humiliated» by his backbenchers and forced to come to the chamber.

Tabled by the backbencher Stephen Phillips and other loyalists, one amendment would oblige the home secretary to report if EU migration is «excessive».

Hindmarsh is held by backbencher Steve Georganas, and he will be opposed in 2013 by Liberal candidate Matt Williams.

I'm not aware of a serious previous proposal by a backbencher to debate with the Prime Minister - especially not when that backbencher is part of the Coalition the Prime Minister leads.

The MPs were part of a Liberal Party group, led by backbencher Alex Hawke, which this week urged Mr Abbott to ditch his paid parental leave scheme.

Not exact matches

A caucus of some 60 hard - line backbenchers is preparing to break openly with the government's declared strategy of trying to soften the blow of leaving the EU's single market by arranging a transitional period, during which which the U.K. would still pay into the EU's budget and not be able to sign its own trade deals.

While the New Democrats continue to try to shame Conservative backbenchers — see Olivia Chow's statement on Monday and Niki Ashton's statement on Tuesday — the Conservatives have responded by finding new ways to lament for the prospect of a cap - and - trade system.

Then there is the «private member's bill» tactic, where the government pretends it's just this or that backbencher introducing anti-union measures, but those measures are supported and probably drafted by the Conservative inner circle.

He, and backbenchers on the opposition side, would be free to stand up every so often and ask a question of the government about some matter of particular concern to him or his constituents — a question that had not been vetted by anyone with any authority over him.

More quietly, Alberta backbencher Heather Sweet led a successful bid to quash a convention resolution to ban tankers off British Columbia's north coast, promoted by the riding association of MP Nathan Cullen, a past NDP leadership contender and a western power broker.

The sequester allowed the Republican leadership to back out of the debt ceiling fight while backbenchers could posture that they had cut spending by $ 1.2 trillion in some to - be-determined way.

Chinese tinned peaches served in hospitals and other institutions in Australia could contain up to twice the allowable levels of lead, according to test results released by a Coalition backbencher, Sharman Stone, as she fights to save Australia's last fruit major processor, SPC Ardmona.

His entire time in power has been dominated by trying to make accommodation with other forces: from the Lib Dems, to Ukip, to his own backbenchers.

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.

The septuagenarian backbencher failed to be reselected by party colleagues last January, months before his expenses claim for a # 5 donation to a Battle of Britain memorial church service came to light.

Even Andrew Bellingham was firmly slapped on the back by his fellow backbenchers.

Last night David Cameron was getting chummy with his unruly backbenchers by serving them burgers and hot dogs in Downing Street's Rose Garden.

It doesn't work very well, whatever uppity backbenchers claim, because the first - past - the - post system means most people aren't represented by someone they backed.

Many English MPs, especially Conservative backbenchers, are frustrated by the system and are demanding reform.

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 UK government, by proposing to legalise genetic changes of this kind before the evidence is clear - cut, has posed backbenchers a very big dilemma.

Asked by the BBC if the reshuffle would create a more «cohesive» Conservative party, backbencher Eleanor Laing replied: «I very much doubt it.»

He explained, in response to a question from a bemused Tory backbencher, that most members of the group only attended one or two meetings, but by some strange twist of fate, he had found himself a «core» member for the last decade or so.

By realising, first of all, that the internal dynamics of the Conservative backbenchers are not at all simple.

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

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 prominent Conservative backbencher will trigger a by - election in his constituency of Clacton, where he has a majority of 12,068.

Conversations over issues where the parties have a shared interest, like Lords reform, are suspected by Tory backbenchers of being used as a cover for discussions about longer - term prospects.

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.

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

Cameron has made serious inroads on the task of keeping his party on board by always meeting groups of backbenchers in the Commons after Wednesday's PMQs, and regularly holding drinks receptions for them in No10.

I suspect the Prime Minister will test the water fairly early on and if she finds her program being blocked by bolshie backbenchers, don't be surprised if we get an early General Election.

In a bid to head off a rebellion, Tory whips pushed backbenchers to back compromise amendments tabled by Stephen Phillips, which would force the home secretary to assess whether EU immigration is excessive and the likely effects of new countries joining the EU.

The Chief Secretary to the Treasury has waded into the row over a demand by 95 Tory backbenchers for the UK Parliament to get a veto over EU legislation.

Rebellions by Liberal Democrat backbenchers have been sufficiently problematic for the current government that some reasonably argue that the Tories could only rely on Lib Dem ministers in a second coalition.

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.