Sentences with phrase «calls from his backbenchers»

The leader of the opposition will have strongly committed his party to supporting the unknown proposals of said inquiry, while facing down calls from his backbenchers to go further.

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The prime minister also faced questions on Europe from opposition backbenchers, including the DUP's Nigel Dodds who repeated calls for a referendum and former business minister Pat McFadden.

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.»

The Conservatives are introducing a Commons amendment on Wednesday calling for a referendum and are hoping to pick up support from Liberal Democrat MPs and some Labour backbenchers.

Conservative backbencher Charlotte Leslie is leading calls from the government benches for Nicholson to quit over failings at the NHS.

He said: «We have seen Tory backbenchers last week defying the prime minister to vote against the Queen's Speech; former Tory chancellors openly calling for Britain to leave the European Union; serving Cabinet ministers joining the chorus at the weekend, saying they would vote for Britain to leave the EU now; and the embarrassing spectacle and truly ludicrous sight of a British prime minister in Washington negotiating an EU - US trade deal, while back home members of his own Cabinet say they would vote to exclude Britain from its benefits.»

Boris Johnson, the London mayor, has faced calls from Tory backbenchers to give the contest a shot, but he has already ruled himself out of the race as he has already put himself forward for the greater London seat of Uxbridge.

Cameron defended the plan to include an elected second chamber in the Queen's speech despite the cacophony of calls from his own backbenchers to drop the bill: «I wouldn't for a moment say that this is the most important thing the government is doing.

Ministers have resisted demands for a public vote from nearly 100 Tory backbenchers, who last month signed a letter to the prime minister calling on him to legislate for a referendum in the next parliament.

Gordon Brown had initially called for the inquiry to be private but was forced to back down in the face of overwhelming criticism from backbenchers, opposition parties and the military.

Jon Cruddas, the influential backbencher, was taking calls from rebels trying to recruit him to the cause, and also from elements of the soft left persuading him not to be a «cheap date».

Mr Corbyn rejected calls from pro-EU figures like Lord Mandelson and a number of his own backbenchers to commit to staying in the EU single market, saying instead that he wanted a «close relationship» with it.