Sentences with phrase «from a labour backbencher»

That's the first anti-Tory comment we've seen from a Labour backbencher.

That is triggering dissent from Labour backbenchers.

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.»

Responding to a question from Labour backbencher Gisela Stuart, who recently said Britain should leave the EU, the prime minister promised an imminent speech.

The meeting came hours after Labour rebel Frank Field apologised in the Commons for personally attacking Gordon Brown, amid concessions from the prime minister which prompted widespread relief from Labour backbenchers.

Meanwhile, here's a tweet from Labour backbencher Alun Michael: «Ed Miliband excellent at PM's Qns.

Paul Truswell, whose Commons motion attacking the bill's proposals has attracted over 60 signatures from Labour backbenchers, said there was a «tremendous amount of concern» about the bill.

He dealt with the unusually effective combined attacks from Labour backbenchers with aplomb.

Then came an unfortunate question from a Labour backbencher who had got mixed up with her economic figures.

12:01 - And so we're underway with a question on immigration - a little warm - up from Labour backbencher Nia Griffith.

David Cameron has attacked the manner of the supercasino u-turn - announced at PMQs in response to a question from a Labour backbencher.

Not exact matches

Durham's Labour backbencher Roberta Blackman - Woods faces a real threat to her 3,274 majority from the Liberal Democrats.

Gordon Brown's authority faces another test as Labour backbenchers square up over an amendment barring tax exiles from being party donors.

Labour suggested the Conservative leader was responding to the demands of his backbenchers from a position of weakness.

The result is the kind of partisan sniping I saw in the Commons chamber last week, when Labour backbencher Diana Johnson suggested to deputy PM Nick Clegg that «political donations arising from the proceeds of crime» ought to be given back.

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.

The Health Secretary has gradually moved, partly under pressure from Conservative backbenchers, to put some of the blame where it belongs - on the consequences of Labour's command and control targets regime.

If Labour goes ahead with its plan to argue for more time and oppose the government motion, and if three dozen Tory and Liberal Democrat backbenchers join forces, then, with the support of at least some of the minor parties, a government defeat or a pyrrhic win is far from impossible.

Some Labour backbenchers are concerned about the Lib Dem's attitude to trade unions, and support from Unite might just tip opinion in favour of a coalition.

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.

Tory MP Mr Bercow had strong backing from many Labour members, but a secret shadow whipping operation was under way to convince backbenchers they should support a member of their own party.

It is notable that Simon is leading on this, not just another backbencher — and strikingly, not anyone from the Labour benches.

12:32 - The permanently angry Labour backbencher John Mann is fed up this week about people being prevented from building their own homes.

A bon viveur, writer, journalist and lawyer, he was one of the leading members of the awkward squad on Labour backbenchers from 1997 to 2010.

3 - Tom Watson While his elevation from opposition backbencher to deputy Labour chair is hardly on the scale of some other names on this list, Watson had a remarkable political metamorphosis in 2011.

This body came under criticism from Conservative spokesperson Jacqui Lait as «undemocratic» and Labour backbencher Clive Betts has also criticised its unaccountable nature.

The Labour leader faced critical questions from a handful of his own backbenchers.

From the look on the faces of some Labour backbenchers, they haven't had this much fun in years.

However, despite these painstaking efforts the Labour party and Conservative backbenchers united to block any further progress, preventing government from securing a timetable motion without which the Bill effectively becomes impossible to deliver.

Jeremy is going to have to make a transition very quickly from being a backbencher, where he had a kind of modus operandi, to being leader of the Labour party and being under constant scrutiny.

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.

Fellow backbencher Sir Roger Gale offered a more measured reprimand, regaling that when serving on the Civil Partnerships Bill committee he had received cast iron assurances from — amongst others — the MP for Rhondda [Labour's Chris Bryant] that the passing of the bill would definitely not lead to full - blown marriage; not the last to subsequently question the government's «iron clad» assurances.

But the proposal came up against hostility from Conservative backbenchers and Labour MPs.

With the elder Milibrother gone, it leaves disgruntled backbenchers with very few realistic suitors for their affections — certainly from the New Labour generation of the party.

The sheer glee of Labour backbenchers as Brown ran rings around David Cameron in PMQs revealed quite how much the PM's hold on Downing Street, so nearly prised from his grip last spring, has been strengthened in recent weeks.

The film features Leave campaigners from all sides of the political spectrum including UKIP leader Nigel Farage, Tory backbencher David Davis and Labour's Kate Hoey, along with North Sea fishermen and businessman and entrepreneur John Mills.

Fresh from their resounding success in defeating AV, many Conservative MPs have started talking to Labour backbenchers who also voted No in the referendum trying to form a new alliance to defeat the proposals to reform the House of Lords, announced by Nick Clegg yesterday.

Apart from Owen and Rodgers, and to a lesser extent Maclennan and Mabon, none were front - rank figures in the Labour Party, and most were undistinguished backbenchers in danger of deselection (nothing new there then!).

«Supporters of Diane Abbott are urging fellow backbencher MP John McDonnell to stand down from the Labour leadership race to give the left a greater chance of having a candidate on the final ballot.»

David Cameron was saved from a potentially humiliating Commons defeat on gay marriage by the Labour party last night, after a complicated series of political manoeuvres saw the prime minister face another damaging rebellion from his backbenchers.

Shadow defence secretary Emily Thornberry briefed Labour MPs on her review of defence policy on Monday night, warning submarine based warheads could become as obsolete as the Spitfire - sparking outrage from backbenchers.

Last week, Labour votes allowed the government's Queen's Speech to survive an attack from Tory backbenchers over the EU referendum.

The legislation was introduced under Labour and is unpopular among Tory backbenchers who complain it opens up British law to interference from Europe.

Jeremy Corbyn will say on Wednesday that a Labour government will not «sow division» by promising to cut immigration, despite pressure from key backbenchers to shift the party's stance after the Brexit vote.

Some Labour backbenchers regard Momentum as a party within a party, organising its members to put pressure on MPs from other wings of the party to fall in behind Corbyn's line on certain issues, such as rejecting military action in Syria.

Newly re-elected Labour leader to say that party will not «sow division» despite pressure from backbenchers in wake of vote to leave EU

Ann Clwyd's latest criticisms of the Welsh NHS for sometimes giving poor care to patients provoked an angry response from one Labour backbencher in the Senedd.

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.