Sentences with phrase «just for backbenchers»
In Albany, running afoul of the law is bipartisan, and not just for backbenchers.
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The time limit for backbenchers has just been cut from seven minutes to four minutes.
«It is one that is not going to happen and I think that those backbenchers who keep putting forward those sorts of ideas should just come out and accept that what they really want is for Britain to leave the European Union because that is the argument they are actually making.»
How on earth could she tell the prime minister that «I propose that the government does not support this amendment because it would be incompatible with the ECHR and counter-productive» and then, as the home secretary responsible for enforcing law and order in Britain, simply sit there, just scared of her own backbenchers, and fail to vote?
It's nice to see a «backbenchers» ballot thread here, but just to make it totally fair, and to avoid being tarnished as being biased, I was wondering whether the author could produce another ballot for «backstabbers» so we can make our preferences known for those requiring the Halifax Gibbet please?
Now, with just 250 days until the general election, he is having to deal with the fall - out from the news that radical backbencher Douglas Carswell has defected to UKIP, triggering a time consuming by - election that no one in the party would have wished for.
Just as lobby journalists were gearing up to describe Lawson as «the first Conservative politician to call openly for Hammond to be sacked», the Tory backbencher took to Twitter with a message for the press pack.
He's not impressing Tory backbenchers who are just about to rebel, that's for sure.
«This isn't about ignoring how people voted last year - quite the opposite, it's about ensuring that the deal we get in negotiations works for everyone in the UK, not just hard - line Tory backbenchers.
Ludmer says in terms of lessons learned, «it was just too difficult for something this significant to proceed as a backbencher's proposed bill.»