Sentences with phrase «for backbenchers»

Having suggested Douglas Carswell for Backbencher of the Year, I'll put him up here too.

It's going to run until 7 pm and there will be a five - minute time limit for backbenchers who want to speak.

The Chancellor answered 96 questions in total, so it allowed a large window of opportunity for backbenchers to raise questions or points sceptical of the government's economic agenda - backbenchers could have urged the Chancellor to pursue fiscal consolidation more vigorously, or pressed for a more pro-growth direction, and so on.

«Prime minister's questions is principally for backbenchers,» he observed primly towards the end of the session.

He rarely looks like he cares about what he's saying, a fine quality for a backbencher.

But all Cameron had to do was tee it up with a neat little pause and then thwack it into the ether for his backbenchers to roar their acclamation.

It should be equally unthinkable for backbenchers, too.

In Albany, running afoul of the law is bipartisan, and not just for backbenchers.

In 1946 there was no free vote for backbenchers.

The PM could do with a sunny September so he can have more BBQs for backbenchers, and be seen to be listening and responding more.

The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority is expected to say the # 66,000 salary for backbenchers should rise to around # 75,000 after the 2015 election.

John Bercow called Defence Secretary Philip Hammond «incompetent» when his officials failed to produce any briefing notes for backbenchers for a session.

The proposed removal of the payment from 40p rate taxpayers was watered down in the budget, but not enough for some backbenchers, evidently.

Jonathan Isaby's pick: «My selection for backbencher of the year goes to someone who could equally have been nominated for the frontbencher award - as he was a member of the shadow cabinet for the first half of the year.

«It's obviously important for backbenchers to make known to the leadership their view of the options open to the Party.

Over the new year period we will be presenting some end - of - year awards; starting with our personal choices for BackBencher Of The Year:

The transition can be tougher for backbenchers.

The time limit for backbenchers has just been cut from seven minutes to four minutes.

Apart from his comments on Europe, one part will stand out for his backbenchers in particular

But backbench MP Christopher Chope said the plan «could have implications for example when we come to vote for membership of select committees because select committees are the opportunity for backbenchers to hold the government to account».

For her backbenchers and some ministers she will declare the UK has left.

What a marvellous opportunity this is for backbenchers to be hopelessly loyal in the face of adversity.

It might also (for backbenchers, activists, members) be rather more remote.