Sentences with phrase «for back benchers»

Not exact matches

Greens senator Adam Bandt and Labor back - bencher Kelvin Thomson demanded criminal charges for some exporters.

After a period on the back benchers Laws returned to government in 2012 as Minister of State for Schools in the Department of Education and Minster of State in the Cabinet Office.

Had the leader's office wished to influence the outcome it would have been sufficient to persuade a reasonable number of front - benchers to vote only for John Healey (the one candidate who could be relied upon to back Ed Miliband in any issue where he needed it) to guarantee his election and a fairly small number to back Steve Rotherham who may have been seen as preferable to Dennis Skinner, in order to ensure that he came second.

After the last election, the new prime minister, formerly known for his husky - cuddling and his «greenest government ever» shtick suddenly remembered his back benchers and became, for the most part, a much more traditional kind of Tory.

For the benefit of Labour Members, the Deputy Prime Minister, the Justice Secretary, the Prime Minister and Government Back Benchers, will the Chancellor tell the House what is today's policy on child benefit?»

He also told Jo Coburn about his backing for a married couple's tax allowance, which would be supported by fellow Conservative back benchers who «rather feel that they have a government which is not quite Tory enough and this would help, a bit.»

We can not say for certain that Cameron was deliberately and cynically lying to his back - benchers in order to persuade them to throw their weight behind the coalition.

Although the message may have been softened since to appease Unions and Tory back benchers, there is no doubt about the government's intention and the likelihood that there will be legislative changes at some point to achieve this (if only for the rump of schools left by then who have refused to engage so far).

This has been a massive bone of contention for Conservative back - benchers, many of whom campaigned for years for fairer funding, only to find their own constituencies» schools would face cuts.

(6) the necessary but unknown qualities of time and trial - and - error effort to solve such problems, conflict with fulfilling the incentives for becoming a bencher, e.g., becoming a judge or obtaining other government appoints, or formally establishing the fact of one's success and popularity, and giving back to the profession the benefit of one's years of experience, and being re-elected as a bencher;

Still great, but we need to trim this back a little further to account for people who saw these tweets and are not eligible to vote in the LSUC Bencher election.