Sentences with phrase «government backbenches»

She added that Labour MPs are «in disarray» on the issue, although it remains to be seen how many of those on the government backbenches who are sceptical about the third runway would be willing to back a Conservative motion on the issue.

The government backbenches roared with laughter.

The government backbenches erupted yet again, as Ed Balls squirmed uncomfortably under the gaze of the entire House.

Leslie, who is leading the fight against Nicholson from the government backbenches, is now focusing her efforts on the apparent cover - up of three reports into the state of the NHS which Nicholson claims he knew nothing about.

At which point the entirety of the government backbenches, who until now had been awkwardly trying to pretend they were somewhere else, erupted in laughter.

The vote, which took place as the Commons debates Lords amendments to the electoral registration and administration bill, will deepen already intense bitterness on the government backbenches over the coalition's stalled constitutional reform agenda.

And the quality of our democratic system will be weaker tomorrow with the loss of these nine opposition MLAs into the government backbenches.

But a lot of this is Labour's doing, since as long as Ed Miliband's party refuses to sign up for the government motion, government backbench doubters have that much more power to extract concessions.

As Professor Philip Cowley of Nottingham University notes, the current session has already seen more government backbench revolts than all but four sessions in the post-war era.

Speaking after the debate, Ms McIntosh said: «The negative behaviour of government backbench MPs today shows that the Labour party simply do [es] not care about the rising fear of crime among the general public.

Not exact matches

The Conservative MP, who has been responsible for digital industries in the UK since 2010, added that he was looking forward to supporting government from the backbenches.

Backbench Conservative MP Jacob Rees - Mogg told The Times it would be «foolish» to approve a higher financial settlement for the EU, and former Tory leader Ian Duncan Smith urged the government to «sit tight» as the situation had tipped Brexit negotiation into chaos.

The government also backed a backbench Conservative MP's bid to make it legal for Canadians to transport domestic wine from one province to another.

Because of this, it was widely suspected that the new government would wait until 2016 before deciding which backbench NDP MLAs were cabinet material.

She slowly expanded the cabinet with talent identified from the MLA backbenches of the new government caucus and since then many cabinet ministers have grown into their roles quite comfortably.

Over the past eleven months, Premier Redford, cabinet ministers, and backbench Tory MLAs have traveled extensively on government business.

Premier's Political Editor Martyn Eden says the EDM is used by backbench MPs to keep pressure and scrutiny on the government to follow through with promises and proposals.

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Davies has previously suggested «feminsist zealots really do want women to have their cake and eat it» and in December he spoke for over an hour in an effort to talk out a backbench bill calling on the government to ratify an international treaty on domestic violence.

As much as I'd like to see the VAT rise replaced by an income tax rise, I was under the impression that there was the rule that only governments can raise taxes, and backbench or parliamentary amendments can not?

The comments, which came as an aside during a case won by the government, triggered outrage among eurosceptics on the Tory backbenches, who said the UK had been tricked into believing it had an opt - out from the convention when Labour signed up during the Lisbon negotiations.

Perhaps this week, as trade talks begin in earnest and MPs battle it out, both backbench MPs and the government would do well to look at another model of «doing» Brexit.

Under convention, government amendments have to be debated before backbench amendments.

As for the former, the regulation of the parliamentary party has been modified under the coalition government and Cameron has faced an unprecedented scale of persistent backbench revolts throughout his first term.

May's last - minute addition to the 50 government amendments used up much of the Commons time allocated to the bill, which had been set to see potentially substantial backbench rebellions.

Although not paid other than their salary as an MP, [1] PPSs help the government to track backbench opinion in Parliament.

Earlier this week, a Tory backbench revolt over CLG's original proposal cut the Government's majority to 27.

The subsequent Third Reading debate was remarkable for the ferocity of backbench opposition and the scarcity of MPs willing to come to the government's defence.

He knows that while I won't return, I will do everything I can from the backbenches to put Labour into government, and Ed Miliband into 10 Downing Street.

The move comes as a blow for the government, which is already facing backbench revolts over health reforms and is set for a battle over proposals to give schools more freedom.

Because, despite Miliband's exemplary claim to economic superiority — he was giving economics lectures to students while Cameron was on the opposition backbenches — his association with the last government makes him seem at least partly responsible for getting us into this mess in the first place.

But either way, it is worth recording briefly that a Government motion relating to future EU budgets was passed yesterday evening without a Tory backbench amendment.

There will be further changes to the way the House does business when the Backbench Business Committee is able to look at both Government legislation and Back - Bench business, and we are told that that will not start until the third year of this Parliament — another recipe for delay.

The Tory leadership has faced a voluble and increasingly muscular backbench and activist base over issues including Britain's relationship with the EU and government planning reforms.

The vote followed a four - hour backbench business debate on a motion endorsing a minimum level of spending on defence as 2 % of GDP — a level set by Nato — in which MPs from across the political spectrum repeatedly urged the government to protect defence spending.

From the backbenches, he was a vocal critic of the government, voting against Foundation Hospitals in November 2003.

Field went on to become one of the Labour government's most vocal critics from within the party on the backbenches.

The government will face the prospect of having to rely on the enthusiastic support of the Conservatives to get the measure through the Commons in the face of a backbench revolt.

The government is braced for another Labour backbench rebellion when MPs vote on the final stages of the controversial education bill today and tomorrow.

The government fought off a backbench rebellion of 69 MPs last night when the Conservatives helped them get through the report stage of the education bill.

After Northern Ireland secretary Owen Paterson made clear he would not support gay marriage - adding his dissent to indications of opposition from defence secretary Philip Hammond and children's minister Tim Loughton - Downing Street accepted the free vote would apply to members of the government as well as backbench MPs.

Philip Cowley is Professor of Parliamentary Government at the University of Nottingham, and runs the website www.revolts.co.uk, which monitors backbench behaviour.

That's why for the first time in over a century, this Government has voluntarily given up its power to control all business in the Commons by establishing a Backbench Business Committee — a decision Labour consistently ducked and, astonishingly, still seem to oppose.

It noted that «Labour MPs dissent more often than Conservatives; they dissent in great numbers than Conservatives; and they dissent on more issues than Conservatives» — and concluded that «judging from their current voting behaviour, there is the real possibility that any future Labour Government will face significant backbench dissent».

Mr Gove, who frequently clashed with the new Prime Minister, returns to the backbenches after six years in Government as Education Secretary, Chief Whip and most recently Justice Secretary.

I do find it astonishing that 11 years into a failed Labour Government, Labour is regularly able to put up backbench MPs who openly hate the Tories with a passion - people like McShane, Kaufman, Ruane, Pound and Thornberry.

He was seen as imperious and intolerant by backbench opponents concerned at the threat to local postal services («he seemed to have lost touch» one commented after a meeting), and the plan was abandoned by the Cabinet as unlikely to pass the House of Commons, as the Major government's majority had dropped to 14 by then.

We are deeply concerned that this misrepresentation has not only been allowed to continue but that several government ministers appear to have suggested that the proposals will be watered down in order to quell a backbench Tory rebellion.

Parliament's House of Commons select committee system, which allows groups of backbench MPs to scrutinise the work of government departments and to initiate their own inquiries in areas related to the work of those departments, has existed in its present form since 1979.