Sentences with phrase «influential backbench»

One influential backbench MP said: «There is general dissatisfaction all over the place.

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The voice of the anti-EU Tory Right will be heard on the influential new Backbench Business Committee

With an influential Cabinet secretary to lead the malcontents on the Tory backbenches, the eurosceptic wing of the party now presents a much more dangerous threat to the prime minister.

Lord Kalms, a former party Treasurer and the founder of the Dixons retail empire, has given voice to the discontent felt by many disgruntled backbench MPs and influential Tory figures who have privately called on David Cameron to dismiss his close ally following a sharp fall in the party's opinion poll ratings.

As a key ally of the then Shadow Foreign Secretary Robin Cook, Cousins was still hopeful of a ministerial job when Labour won the election in 1997, but his hopes were dashed and instead he became an influential member of the backbench Treasury Select Committee.

Cabinet opponents of the customs partnership plan are backed by the influential European Research Group of Tory backbench MPs.