Sentences with phrase «government backbenchers»

Nothing is certain when it comes to Thursday's tuition fees vote, as ministerial brinkmanship clashes with the genuine dismay of government backbenchers.

The vote follows other substantial rebellions from government backbenchers, including an 81 - strong rebellion on an EU referendum and a 91 - strong rebellion on Lords reform.

But when you've got government backbenchers rebelling in almost half of all divisions - our recent research showed that they've been rebelling in 44 % of all votes in the last session, a historically unprecedented rate - then it becomes a bit easier.

Conservative MP Nadine Dorries became the latest government backbencher to question David Cameron's social housing plans yesterday.

It marks a positive change from a mode of governance that has in the past enabled the Cabinet leadership to manipulate electoral accountability for partisan advantage and to exercise dominance over government backbenchers and the legislature.

His cronies, those toadying government backbenchers happy to help their leader with a planted question, had raised the question of the controversial benefit cap.

Today's statement was carefully crafted — espousing same - sex marriage whilst careful to concede ground in the form of a «quadruple lock», to both safeguard institutional and individual rights, whilst no doubt appeasing government backbenchers.

Malcolm Turnbull has unveiled changes to question time to give government backbenchers a new opportunity to pitch to their local audiences.

Pressure groups are particularly important to supporting the opposition, which has few policy experts to rival the civil service, and they also support government backbenchers in getting issues onto the agenda.

Grant Tambling, a former Government backbencher and parliamentary secretary, had failed to stick rigidly to the script.

When there is clear resistance from government backbenchers (as Brown faced over his proposals to detain terror suspects without charge for 42 days), plans are usually dropped to avoid possible Commons humiliation.

12:00 - This could be one of those PMQs which ends up being more about the government backbenchers asking awkward questions than the leader of the opposition, though.

16:35 - Peter Bone praises Khan for delivering a «powerful speech» - a very unusual step for a government backbencher, talking about an opposition spokesperson.

«You are never going to have a government backbencher chairing a committee that is going to criticise the government properly,» he said, adding that an opposition member should chair the committee in future.

Now Laws is a government backbencher, facing investigation for expenses claims which may have broken parliamentary rules, and outed by a newspaper investigation as a closet homosexual.

«The government backbenchers are getting too excited,» he pointed out.

The Conservative manifesto in 2010 stated that DLA would be «protected», which may be problematic for some government backbenchers.

The government backbenchers, especially those behind the Cabinet on the front row, were hooting and heckling.

If the first question is asked by a government backbencher, the Leader of the Opposition is the second MP to ask questions.

On the World at One Dominic Grieve, the Conservative former attorney general and one of the government backbenchers speaking out in favour of continuing customs union membership, said that he could understand why Theresa May had chosen not to sack Boris Johnson for his customs partnership remarks.

In April, 2000, a government backbencher introduced a private member's Bill in the Ontario legislature, Bill 66, the Judicial Accountability Act, 2000, which would have required the Attorney General to table an annual report identifying individual judges and the sentences they imposed in serious criminal cases.