Sentences with phrase «new backbench»

And judging by the response to Clegg in the Commons, this new backbench Tory - Labour coalition looks likely to succeed.

In policy development the PCP should ensure that the new backbench policy committees are properly resourced.

The Commons» new backbench business committee chair, Labour MP Natascha Engel, outlines her ambitions for the coming year:

As a very new backbench MP in the last Parliament I was delighted to be asked to pull together a proposal for reform of the planning system following our Green Papers on localism and housing.

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

Not exact matches

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.

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.

Backbench mutterings about the PM's cold - fish aloofness are nothing new, but it taps into a deeper worry: if Cameron can't be bothered to shoot the breeze with local MPs, is he really connecting with hard - pressed families?

In purging Cameroons and Osbornites, the new PM has created a potentially angry axis on the backbenches.

The changes in No 10, which have also seen former energy minister John Hayes appointed to a new post as senior parliamentary adviser, leave the position of the backbench 1922 committee in doubt.

By avoiding confrontation and by making concessionary gestures to their Coalition partner, their strategy would appear to be to «hang the Liberal Democrats out to dry»; as realistically, the Conservative Party backbench would never pass a bill mandating a grand convention to write a brand new constitution from scratch.

«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.

A political archeologist looking for traces of the edifice that was once New Labour message discipline could extract it from the bitten lips of former ministers now on the backbench, repressing the urge to attack their leader.

Mr Blair is facing a backbench revolt over the plans, which critics claim will bring in selection by the back door, and Mr Cameron capitalised on this by listing among the proposals that the Tories agree with, a new power for schools to bring back selection.

After voicing their concerns with the outcome of the summit, backbench Lib Dem MPs and peers are thought to have put forward proposals towards building a fresh coalition approach to the new two - tier Europe.

Philip Cowley and Mark Stuart of the University of Nottingham have released a new pamplet - «The Bumper Book of Coalition Rebellions», which documents the 239 backbench rebellions so far in this Parliament, in which 544 votes have been held.

The former justice minister talks about backing the wrong horse for the Tory leadership, his new life on the backbenches and next steps for Brexit.

Others of the new Tories want to get on, and understandably find backbench life tedious.

MPs have not begun sitting yet at Westminster and already there is revolt on the backbenches at a new device changing the rules on dissolution of parliament.

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.

She and Mr Burt are both involved in a new Tory backbench group pressing the Government not to quit the single market as the UK leaves the EU.

Of the 15 new bills announced yesterday, I'd be surprised if at least 13 don't see some backbench dissent.

The bill itself may also prove to be a true test of how in control the prime minister is of his own party given the level of opposition among backbench MPs and his weakened position in the latest ICM poll, published yesterday, in which 63 per cent of voters said Labour would be better off with a new leader.

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.

Backbench opposition was neutered by the new Cabinet's protestations of loyalty.

His recruitment comes as a new policy advisory unit featuring backbench rebels is established.

Backbench opposition As the new Conservative and Liberal Democrat cabinet met for the first time yesterday, some senior Tory and Labour MPs voiced concern over the proposal.

In reality the backbench departmental bodies have so far had little influence, but they have the potential to become a vehicle to develop a parallel set of new policies to those being produced by Corbyn's supporters.

Shailesh Vara Not strictly new — Vara has been in the Commons since 2005 and has held several junior jobs before, but had been on the backbenches for 18 months after leaving the work and pensions department.

Shinwell did not resume ministerial office when Labour returned to power in October 1964, but instead the new Prime Minister Harold Wilson appointed him Chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party, and during the 1964 - 6 Parliament he worked hard to drum up backbench support for the government, which had a very narrow majority.

Earlier in the month the Government postponed an announcement of its decision over what to do at Heathrow until the New Year, prompting accusations that it was planning to bow to increasing Labour backbench opposition to the expansion.

«The Tory leadership is battling to head off a backbench ambush over a new tax break for married couples... Tim Loughton, the author of the amendment, said that it presented Mr Cameron with a «golden opportunity» to show his Government was capable of enacting true Conservative policies.

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.

«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.

A genuine and sustained debate among MPs about the details of the policy regime, much of it centred around the proposals in a paper from moderate backbench critics Alan Whitehead and Peter Bradley, has led to significant government concessions and a new focus on questions of increasing access to university from a broader social intake.

Within the Labour party, among backbench MPs and constituency activists alike, one of the most common complaints is that new policies seem to come out of the blue - or from the Downing Street wonks - without being discussed in the party's policy - making process.

Backbench dining clubs are not unusual but many MPs will still feel excluded from a club that appears to be a new favoured circle of David Cameron's Preatorian Guard.

Backbench Labour MPs have criticised the government's plans to open new grammar schools, claiming they are based on «flimsy evidence» in a debate i