Sentences with phrase «number of senior mps»

In mid-2008, a large number of senior MPs openly called upon Brown to resign.

He has worked also worked closely with a number of senior MPs, including Chris Grayling, the Shadow Home Secretary, on crime - reduction issues.

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Theresa May's personal crusade to expand the number of grammar schools is in serious jeopardy today as senior Tory, Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs unite in an unprecedented cross-party campaign to kill off the prime minister's flagship education reform.

A number of Tory MPs favouring free market policies, including some at senior ministerial level, feel the plan is far too interventionist for a Conservative government, and are aiming to water down the proposal in the next parliament.

One senior Tory source tells Total Politics: «The board was constituted in Number 10 as a conduit for fresh thinking... But through the reign of terror Nick and Fiona had such a strong sense of their own agenda that it ended up being very much a Number 10 board for getting MPs to contribute on stuff that Number 10 was planning to do.

But senior frontbenchers say the price of working with Mr Corbyn would be the return of shadow cabinet elections, giving MPs the power to elect a substantial number of Labour's top team.

David Cameron is open to the idea of the eventual introduction of all - women shortlists on a voluntary basis, senior Tory sources have said, amid fears that the party could fail to boost its number of female MPs at next year's general election.

The move is a boost for the Prime Minister, as large numbers of Labour MPs - including senior frontbenchers - are now free to vote against their leader without the threat of disciplinary action.

A senior Conservative has broken ranks to criticise the upcoming boundary review, saying it is «perverse» to cut the number of MPs without reducing the size of the House of Lords.

And speaking in the Commons a number of senior Labour MPs, including former shadow chancellor Chris Leslie and shadow Europe minister Pat McFadden, questioned his views about counter-terror tactics and the response to Islamist extremism.