Sentences with phrase «of backbench»

The policy advice clearly favoured dispatchables, but vocal members of his backbench wanted a policy to subsidise coal.

Speaking to the 1922 committee of backbench Conservative MPs, May reportedly defended the idea of selection by saying: «We have already got selection haven't we - it's called selection by house price.»

For Adams — Member of Parliament for Peterborough and professor emeritus at Trent University — the months of backbench lobbying paid off in a budget that he believes is firmly on the plus side for postsecondary education and research.

His critics are beginning to smell weakness with Liam Fox on manoeuvres supported by a chorus of backbench Tory celebrating his eurosceptic speech this week.

The former work and pensions secretary had accused Osborne and David Cameron of protecting wealthy Tory - voting pensioners at the expense of the working poor, while a number of backbench MPs were openly attacking his chancellorship.

The CWU is threatening to disaffiliate from the Labour Party over the issue and scores of backbench Labour MPs have signalled their opposition to the move.

His third run for Harlow was successful and after the 2010 general election, he was elected to the executive of the 1922 Committee of backbench Conservative MPs.

Election of backbench MP and anti-war campaigner means party now has one of the most leftwing, anti-establishment leaders in its history

«They include allowing Labour members to elect the party chairman; launching a «find - a-friend» campaign to double Labour's membership; training Labour Party members to become community organisers; and maintaining, in opposition, the requirement for the Labour leader to have weekly meetings with a committee of backbench MPs.»

Over eight days, the core team of the backbench rebel putsch to unseat Gordon Brown had doubled from seven to 15.

The Sunday Telegraph can reveal that MPs on the ruling executive of the backbench 1922 Committee are planning to openly defy the Prime Minister by throwing out his attempt to change the group's rules.

Tony Blair, it is true, did buckle under the pressure of a backbench uprising and agree to resign.

One of the leaders of the backbench assassins says the key is «the P45 test».

As a key ally of the then Shadow Foreign Secretary Robin Cook, Cousins was still hopeful of a ministerial job when Labour won the election in 1997, but his hopes were dashed and instead he became an influential member of the backbench Treasury Select Committee.

Earlier, a report in the London Evening Standard, edited by the former chancellor George Osborne, claimed David Cameron had tried to introduce such a scheme, but the 1922 committee of backbench Conservative MPs blocked it.

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.

Mark Pritchard MP, secretary of the 1922 committee of backbench Tory MPs, suggested that the changes would lose the Tories votes.

In all these cases it does seem like Mr Speaker had valid grounds for intervening, but his gratuitous and over-long criticisms may well have alienated another chunk of backbench Tory opinion.

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.

The 2010 intake do well out of the backbench committee results - as Conservative MPs class the 1922 election as a popularity contest

In 2013 - 14, 90 per cent of time spent on vocational topics came as a result of backbench debate, up from a third in the three years to 2013.

12:14 - OK, 15 minutes of backbench questions coming up.

Mr Field, leader of the backbench rebellion over the 10p tax band fiasco, made the suggestion as he launched a devastating attack on his party leader.

The by - election, caused by the surprise resignation of the previous Chair, Stephen Dorrell MP, was only the third in this parliament (apart from the required sessional re-election of the Chair of the backbench business committee), with only the defence and procedure committees previously having seen changes.

His reason was that it was not practical to introduce such a Committee «while [we are] still trying to understand what the impact of the Backbench Business Committee is».

The 67 Conservative rebels constitute a third of the backbench Conservative parliamentary party.

Hardly any opposition amendments ever succeed, despite the fuss made by some authors about the greater incidence of backbench rebellions.

The Wright report also recommended the establishment of a House Business Committee, made up of the elected members of the Backbench Business Committee together with frontbench representatives nominated by the party leaders, which would assume responsibility for the House's weekly agenda.

The establishment of an elected Backbench Business Committee in 2010 removed the scheduling of backbench (i.e. non-government) business from government control.

For 22 of these have rebelled against the Government therefore means that a whopping 63 % of backbench Lib Dems have defied the whip.

Wilkie never acted to bring down the government, but Labor's numbers again came under pressure thanks to the problems of backbench Labor MP for Dobell, Craig Thomson.

Between Liam Fox's speech this morning, and David Cameron's statement to the House about his European Council meeting (at 3.30 pm), a number of backbench Tories have voiced their mixed feelings about the Prime Minister's referendum intervention.

Mark Pritchard, secretary of the backbench 1922 committee, told BBC1's Sunday Politics that it would be «very difficult» to hold a referendum on Lords reform and deny one on the EU.

Plans to beef up the powers of backbench MPs may not become law before a general election, Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said.

This is one of the main demands of backbench Tory opponents of reform who have won the support of five cabinet ministers, including the education secretary, Michael Gove, and the defence secretary, Philip Hammond.

The Government's decision to change the rules of the Backbench Business Committee - the substance of which I wrote about yesterday morning - was debated and voted upon in the House yesterday.

First, the House ensured that the Chairmen of the Backbench Business Committee will always be a member of a non-governing party.

Graham Brady, chairman of the 1922 Committee of Backbench Tory MPs, has been speaking to reporters outside the meeting congratulating Theresa May on being the next Prime Minister.

«This is just the work I am getting on with as part of the broad remit of a backbench Member of Parliament who happens to have a great interest in these things.»

News of a backbench plot to force Theresa May to stand down has led to a robust defence of the prime minister from an old foe.

Anyone hoping to dislodge frontrunner Boris Johnson will have to get their skates on after the executive of the backbench 1922 Committee ruled that nominations for the race will open on Wednesday this week — and close at noon on Thursday.

Eurosceptic John Baron delivered the letter to No 10 this morning, just days after Cameron sought to bolster party discipline by bringing a number of backbench Tory MPs into his Downing Street policy operation.

Certainly the Labour Party hopes so, launching an onslaught of backbench questions regarding the PM's adviser and his «devastating conflict of interest» with the ditched plain cigarette packaging policy.

A lot of backbench MPs only speak out on their constituency when they are in the Chamber, as opposed to chipping in on Commons statements on national or international matters.

History remembers the last time a Tory prime minister went to Europe and came back waving a piece of paper, but the hungry beast to be appeased now is a coterie of backbench MP's, a hapless and hopeless crew blinded by stupidity and consumed by petty - minded hobby horses.

About twelve of them said yes, and the European Research Group was founded under the chairmanship of Michael Spicer, who would go on to chair the 1922 Committee of backbench Conservative MPs, before stepping down as an MP in 2010 after being caught in the 2009 expenses scandal paying for maintenance of his helipad with public money.

Seriously considering leading Out campaign as gain of backbench support allows real tilt at leadership.

Lindsay Hoyle did a good job presiding over a quiet - ish PMQs - and while some on twitter have been contrasting his approach to John Bercow's, he didn't have to deal with any serious outbreak of disorder, or any major bouts of backbench ranting.

Appearing before the Treasury select committee of backbench MPs, the chancellor said there would be «very significant financial volatility» if voters chose to leave the EU in the 23 June referendum, which would push up interest rates and tighten credit conditions — making it harder for borrowers to get loans.

Through a largely chronological history of Britain's relationship with the European project, Cato the Younger tells of not only the guilt of the fifteen men and women named above, but also of the «supporting cast» that includes the likes of Mr James Goldsmith, Mr George Osborne, the Barclay Brothers, Sir Edward Heath, Michael Gove and a range of backbench Conservative MPs.