Sentences with phrase «known as a backbencher»

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, which is not entirely fair, as most anyone who follows federal politics will know Mr. Wilks as the backbencher who was very briefly concerned about one of last year's budget bills.)

Whether Osborne is now officially the Tory backbenchers» favourite to replace David Cameron as party leader, as the report suggests, I don't know — but his position is certainly far less vulnerable than it was last summer, when I wrote about it for the Times (#).

What this victory will give May (as well as the chance to crush Labour before it comes to its senses and gets itself a new leader) is a whole bunch of new Tory backbenchers who, whatever their views on Europe and other issues, will know full well that they owe their place on the green benches mainly to her.

David Cameron has vowed to «stay in touch» with voters as he and George Osborne were condemned by a Tory backbencher for being «arrogant posh boys» who do not know the price of milk.

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?

But as prime minister, he can no longer afford to make deals with his backbenchers at the expense of making decisions in the national interest.»

A large number of Labour backbenchers, as well as numerous Labour luminaries like Neil Kinnock and former Education Secretary Estelle Morris, made known their opposition to the proposals and published an alternative white paper.