Sentences with phrase «more backbench»

While sacking people risks creating more backbench enemies, a decisive reshuffle can demonstrate one executive power Cameron does still retain.

Tom Brake, who chairs meetings of the Lib Dem MPs charged with running the parliamentary committees, said he wanted to see more backbench input «further upstream» in the policymaking process.

He is also looking to bring the policy board back with more backbench representation and different name.

If Cameron & Co. rush ahead, then they may face even more backbench disgruntlement when Parliament does eventually return from recess.

Not exact matches

A push for a new sugar tax from the backbench has been shot down by Acting Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce, but one Nationals «sugar belt» MP says food manufacturers might need to come under more scrutiny over how much sugar they add to food.

13:55 - In the Commons those backbench speeches are continuing apace, but I can't cope with any more of them.

The same applies more widely to Davis, who does not even seek to be evasive perhaps because he is above all an admirer of Parliament, a politician who has spent much of his career interrogating ministers from the backbenches.

The Commons» leading civil servant has sent a clear signal he backs abortive plans to give more power to backbench MPs, in an unusual break from his silence on the issue.

Holding his backbenchers in check on Europe has been ever more difficult to achieve, however, given the disproportionate number of hard - line Eurosceptics among the 2010 intake of Conservative MPs and the increasing discontent on the Conservative backbenches with the constraints of being in a coalition with the Liberal Democrats.

With or without political will, the continued discomfort with wind farms suggests more community action - and backbench pressure - could be on the way.

«There is also the question, with all the new powers coming to the Scottish Parliament, MSPs have a lot more to do than backbench MPs from Scotland do now.

His preparation for leadership was as non - existent as that of the more youthful Owen Smith, being on the backbenches since 1983, never needing or choosing to reflect on how to lead a team of different views, and how to project messages, frame arguments to a wider audience.

It's now a bigger and much more interesting job to be an MSP than it is to be an MP from Scotland sitting on the 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.

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.

I'm more worried about the outcome of the elections for the Backbench Business Committee.

«I think the reaction from the backbenches is that this reshuffle is quite a lot more extensive than we actually predicted.

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.

However, a period of relative obscurity on the backbenches, during which he shaved his moustache and toned - down some of his more radicalviews, led to a comeback in 2000 as Mayor of London.

It might be David Cameron but it's more likely to be a backbench MP, or Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg, whose party proudly opposed the war from the start.

In a forthright leader, it called for frontbench sackings and the retirement of backbench MPs dubbed «bed - blockers» - more concerned to draw comfy salaries and accrue pensions.

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».

Most backbench rebels are Conservative — as are most of the very rebellious MPs — but then there are more Conservative MPs.

Sacking Damian Green will have left Theresa May more isolated in cabinet but more popular with backbench MPs and members, senior party figures have said.

He said: «The backbench Eurosceptic opinion is altogether more newsworthy particularly in the rightwing popular press... The party depends for its support on the Conservative mainstream and the more orthodox backbenchers.

Lib Dem enthusiasm for more European integration and the strength of euroscepticism on the Tory backbenches are set to create one of the biggest sticking - points of the coalition government in its four years left in power.

More than 100 backbench Labour MPs are also thought to oppose the plan creating the potential for a significant showdown between Gordon Brown and his own party at a time when the polls show that many voters think Labour would be better off with a new leader.

Moreover, the Guardian reports that any law mandating that the coalition pays anything more than lip service to its 0.7 per cent GDP aid pledge might be omitted from today's announcement on account of Tory backbench opposition.

It's now become a bigger and much more interesting job to be an MSP than it is to be an MP from Scotland sitting on the backbenches.»

However it isn't difficult to imagine a situation in which both Labour and the Conservatives could gain a majority in coalition with the Liberal Democrats help, but the Conservatives — under pressure from the backbenches — have erected a greater number of «red lines» while Labour are more open minded.

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.

Mandelson has decided to launch the bill in the Lords to give him more time to gauge the kind of concessions that will be necessary to prevent a full scale backbench revolt in the Commons.

Yet we need to see it do more to support politics on the backbenches and an extended role for shaping Conservative policies at the next election, helping to deliver a Conservative majority in 2015 and dominating the Parliamentary agenda.»

But consider the matter from the viewpoint of the J Alfred Prufrock MPs of the Tory backbenches — the real players in the present drama, since their lack of attachment to faction or viewpoint is more than compensated for by their relatively large numbers and, therefore, their decisive impact on internal events.

More recently, Ed Miliband decided to grow a beard shortly after he failed to lead his party to victory in the 2015 general election and prepared for life on the backbenches.

Middle - ranking chairs of the party's backbench policy committees want ministers to outline their proposals in more detail before they are publicly announced.

Graham Brady, chairman of the powerful backbench 1922 Committee of Tory MPs, confirms the Prime Minister will be «doing some more broadcasting later today».

The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority is expected to say backbench MPs» # 66,000 salaries should increase to more than # 70,000 from the election.

As Tory MPs showed their support for the former education secretary by giving him a warm welcome at meeting of the backbench 1922 Committee, Vine tweeted a link to the article which described her husband as a more remarkable reformer than Margaret Thatcher.

It's also about other issues - general backbench dissatisfaction with the establishment - see yesterday's 1922 committee revolt over IPSA - and also about the new generation of MPs more aggressively asserting their rights over the executive.

With a group of Tory backbenchers more rebellious than ever Cameron desperately needs a whips office he can trust but who also crucially enjoy a the goodwill of his backbench troops.

«Andrea Leadsom suggests an age guidance rating for sex and relationship education materials Main It won more than 100,000 signatures but Backbench Business Committee denies a debate to Robert Halfon's petrol prices petition»

Lord Heseltine also highlighted that now that Osborne is a backbench MP and no longer a minister he has more «time and discretion» as to what other roles he takes on.

Conservative backbench rebels, who have been urging Hammond to reverse the cuts, signalled that they welcomed the changes to taper rates — but would not give up the fight to make the system more generous.

«It won more than 100,000 signatures but Backbench Business Committee denies a debate to Robert Halfon's petrol prices petition Main Geoffrey Van Orden MEP's surveys of party members keep him in touch with the grassroots»

«The Commons,» he writes, «should schedule its own business; select committees need more powers and resources to get to the bottom of the misdeeds of banks or government departments; backbench MPs should have a meaningful opportunity to introduce legislation that has wide support.

«It's sad but not surprising that backbench Assembly Member Nicole Malliotakis is more interested in filing ridiculous lawsuits than she is in serving New Yorkers — 900,000 of whom have already signed up for IDNYCs,» said spokeswoman Robin Levine.

«The backbench committee has taken oral evidence from a wider range and may be able to offer a more balanced perspective if the frontbench review is being used as a vehicle to overturn established Labour policy.»

Mr Stewart, speaking in a backbench business debate, was raising the issue of pay for young barristers when fellow Tory Sir Edward intervened to shed more light on the topic

The prime minister told backbench MPs last night that he would attempt «one more try» to secure agreement on the constitutional change, before abandoning attempts at Lords reform altogether.