Sentences with phrase «from the labour benches»

Strathclyde's responses seemed more likely to provoke laughter from the Labour benches than sympathy.

George Osborne told MPs this afternoon that new tenants would have to pay 80 % of the market rent, prompting intakes of breath from the Labour benches.

There were jeers from the Labour benches when Conservative MP Karl McCartney said that the lack of competitive sport in schools was due to the last Labour government's attitude, which did not provide a winning mentality.

Robertson, a former army officer, didn't hold back, parrying away questions from the Labour benches.

Riding the roar from the Labour benches, he ploughed on, criticising Miliband's stance on the Greek crisis and on public sector pensions.

The controversial move has been criticised by Lord Harries» commission and prompted concerns from the Labour benches.

Andy Coulson, editor at the time of the allegations and now director of communications at Downing Street, has managed to survive the row up to now, despite repeated demands from the Labour benches that David Cameron sack him.

«He has got two questions left, let's debate policy,» he added to cries of «you're scared Cameron - get back up» from the Labour benches.

Mr Lansley confidently defended his proposals against attacks from the Labour benches, but a speech minutes earlier by Mr Cameron effectively pulled the rug from under him by offering major concessions on his bill.

12.23 - Similarly lots of questions about government «complacency» from the Labour benches.

Theresa May, six per cent for her, and no friend of Mr Osborne for digging those famous heels in, was also upgraded to the «best Home Secretary in a generation» after much encouragement from the Labour benches.

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

Bercow again calls for order, this time from the Labour benches.

Conservative MPs have long had a difficult relationship with Bercow, who was elected as Speaker due to widespread support from the Labour benches.

«With this prime minister a veto is not for life, it's just for Christmas,» Ed Miliband told the chamber, to raucous laughter from the Labour benches.

Despite Alexander saying that the pensions proposal was an «offer that the opposition should support», the reactions from the Labour benches drew some criticism.

12:02 - Lots of ironic cheers for Cameron's presence from the Labour benches.

As the cry rose from the Labour benches, the Deputy Prime Minister was in his office, having a security briefing and catching up with phone calls.

To laughter from the Labour benches, Betts continued quoting Cook to add: «I have specialist knowledge of the situation which I would like to share with you confidentially.

Shadow Justice Secretary Jack Straw faced Clegg from the Labour benches.

To gasps from the Labour benches, the chancellor announced «tough but fair» reforms that will lead to extra changes for housing benefit and on the rules for the mobility and care arrangements for disability living allowance.

In his opening speech in the opposition day debate, which was peppered with angry heckles from the Labour benches, Salmond said Blair should be held to account for what was «very much a personal campaign, unbeknownst to cabinet and indeed to parliament», citing the memo sent to the then US president, George W Bush, from the prime minister saying: «I will be with you whatever.»

from the Labour benches - they have got a problem, it's now totally apparent they have got a problem and they have got to deal with it.»

Not exact matches

That EDM has the support of the Labour front bench and sports 36 signatures, just one of which is from a Lib Dem MP.

13:31 - Frank Field falls over himself to praise Wharton's speech - and gets heckled from his own Labour benches as a result, I think by Karl Turner.

66 Labour MPs voted against Maastricht, including, in Bryan Gould, the only resignation from either front bench in order to do so, and outnumbering Conservative opponents by three to one.

It's fairly clear that the Labour leadership doesn't understand communications — for example no - one seems to have spotted that hiring a Sinn Fein adviser to Jeremy Corbyn's team might at the very least raise eyebrows — but it seems the people criticising him from his own benches aren't much better.

Faced with Labour's reasoned opposition, and with substantial scepticism on their own benches, the government backed off from seeking a mandate they would not have obtained.

Leader Tim Farron is amiable but lacks the magnetic statesmanship that could recruit big beast defections from Labour or Tory benches.

The declaration was welcomed by all sides of the House, especially from opposition benches as many Labour members from the North West have constituents who were directly affected by the tragedy.

Labour MPs can expect an equally fierce response from the Government benches.

In the Commons debate to decide the issue, Mr Corbyn opened from the Labour front bench to speak against intervention before Mr Benn won widespread plaudits for his closing speech making the opposite case.

Labour's Emily Thornberry has resigned from the Labour front bench over a tweet she sent during the Rochester and Strood by - election campaign.

Labour's Emily Thornberry resigns from the Labour front bench over a tweet she sent during the Rochester and Strood by - election campaign.

With Labour trapped in a spiral of decline part demographic, part self inflicted, her real threat comes from her own benches.

certainly not in sufficient numbers to stand a chance in 2020, once the Conservatives have finished loading the deck against Labour, with everything from individual electoral registration and boundary changes, through to the financing of the opposition front bench, sharpened to a fine point in order to stab the Labour party to death.

Huw Irranca - Davies was quite good at the constructive criticism thing from the Labour back benches yesterday, as was Mark Field from the Conservative back benches today.

Another returning MP, Louise Haigh, spoke out against Corbyn in the summer but did not actually resign from the front bench, according to a Labour source.

This follows a debate in the House of Lords in which peers from the Liberal Democrat, Conservative and Labour benches, as well as crossbenchers, also called on Government to get regulations through before the election.

A primeval roar of hope from the opposition benches: this was the first time Labour MPs voiced a real appetite for 2015.

There's often an embarrassing silence from Labour MPs when Corbyn stands up in the Commons and the cheering comes from the Conservative benches opposite.

Friends of the Earth's parliamentary campaigner Martyn Williams said: «Ministers are ignoring advice from scientists and more than two thirds of back bench Labour MPs who are calling for the climate change bill to be strengthened.

The boisterous session saw Mr Clegg come under pressure from all sides of the House, but he succeded in uniting the government benches by repeatedly questioning Labour's failure to act during their 13 years in power.

This follows the resignation last week of Jo Stevens from the shadow cabinet and Tulip Siddiq from Labour's front bench.

The government is receiving strong support from the opposition benches, which scrambled to point out Labour has called on ministers to strengthen rather than weaken the residence test.

It is more important than that — it is the most striking piece of thinking to emerge from Labour's lazy Front Bench since 2010.

Gauke, whose speech was constantly peppered with shouted objections from the packed Labour benches, said universal credit was «working and the rollout will continue and to the planned timetable.»

Six months later and it is clear that Corbyn did not just need to worry about the Conservatives sitting opposite, or the journalists peering down from the House of Commons gallery, but also a number of the Labour MPs lined up on the green benches behind him.

Tory Brexit Minister Steve Baker said: «If Labour want to be taken seriously as a party which respects the decision the people took in the referendum, they must remove Lord Hunt from their front bench.

He had support from both the Conservative and Labour leadership, however many backbench MPs, particularly those from the Labour Party (who held a large majority in the House at the time), viewed Young as someone who had too recently been a member of his party's front bench team and was thus not sufficiently in touch with ordinary MPs.