Sentences with phrase «of backbenchers»

Soubry said: «Both political parties have a number of backbenchers who feel differently from their frontbenches.

Cameron has made serious inroads on the task of keeping his party on board by always meeting groups of backbenchers in the Commons after Wednesday's PMQs, and regularly holding drinks receptions for them in No10.

There have been a number of backbenchers in the Coalition who have privately wanted a royal commission but they felt they needed to be loyal soldiers to the Coalition — until now.

Labour suggested the Conservative leader was responding to the demands of his backbenchers from a position of weakness.

Now, not only does this give fuel to the theory that Cameron did not enforce a hard - line on last week's vote (one person described it as a «nudge, wink» approach), but it is also likely to annoy many of the backbenchers who did remain loyal.

Outside the Commons chamber afterwards I spoke to a number of the backbenchers who had been present.

A quarter of all knighthoods in the New Year honours list have gone to politicians, including the Tory kingmaker Graham Brady, who has Theresa May's political future in his hands as chair of the 1922 Committee of backbenchers, and former Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg.

The first is the right of backbenchers of all parties to decide who chairs Commons committees.

The government continues to dominate, stifling real debate and suppressing the power of backbenchers.

Of the MPs who have so far declared a position, a majority of backbenchers have backed Leave, while the vast majority of the payroll have backed Remain.

However, as Speaker, I have made it my mission to be the champion of backbenchers: I try to afford them every opportunity to analyse, to amend and to argue.

He said Mr Cameron needed to act now to tackle the views of his backbenchers seeking to build on the veto to seek a more fundamental renegotiation of Britain's position in Europe.

MPs at the party's weekly meeting of backbenchers on Monday night expressed frustration at the comments.

of the backbencher against the machine».

One of my colleagues has just come in from the chamber (I'm at the other end of the corridor) and noted that when Cameron made all those points about Europe, none of his backbenchers were cheering.

The causes identified suggests that any reform package that Cameron can achieve is unlikely to change the opinions of his backbenchers.

The independence of backbenchers suffered a massive blow this evening.

The government also appears to have decided that it will not be able to proceed with this reform on any kind of cross-party basis, and so is keen to test out the conviction that the procedural reforms associated with EVEL will be employed on sufficiently few occasions that they may slip from political consciousness, while also looking substantive enough to satisfy the aspirations of its backbenchers.

But the resistance of backbenchers to development on their patches, the ambiguity of the Liberal Democrats (some of whom are pushing More Garden Cities Now), the lateness of part of the Treasury push and the long timetable for building houses conspire against the Chancellor getting big housing growth in the little - more - than - two - year - period between now and the general election.

In the end the Government won this vote comfortably despite the reservations of some backbenchers and Liberal Democrats.

The case for the prosecution is that Cameron's authority is ebbing away, more and more of his backbenchers reckon it is fine to defy his wishes, and he handled the question of Lords reform with atrocious incompetence.

Speaking on the first day of his party conference in Manchester, the prime minister pledged to «fire up the engine of the economy» as he pushed a new homes policy — but thwarted the desires of his backbenchers for a referendum on whether Britain should stay in the EU.

I thought we were going to win in the 1992 election, but I resigned because I didn't want the life of a minister; I wanted the life of a backbencher.

The «Ukip tendency» in the Tory parliamentary party took root then, led by Enoch Powell and a handful of backbenchers like Neil Marten.

Part of the role of the backbencher is to ask awkward questions and to see what's behind the curtain, like in the Wizard of Oz.

He appears to have made the same mistake as Michael Martin - steadfastly defending the interests of backbenchers when he should have been championing change.

After eating, party - goers can adjourn to the Library Bar to «relax like a pack of backbenchers and watch the excitement unfold».

Others blame the prime minister's aloof and arrogant treatment of his backbenchers.

Following his election as Speaker — against the wishes of the majority of Tory MPs — Bercow has won plaudits for his championship of backbenchers and brisk movement through the order paper.

If a significant number of backbenchers cause a fuss about the treatment, it will be a good way to raise the profile of the issue within government.

Business Secretary Vince Cable has accused the Conservatives of being «horribly divided» during an interview with ITV News, after over half of all backbenchers rebelled against David Cameron.

Last week's mini-reshuffle showed that Cameron is in constant fear of his backbenchers as they move his party further to the right, but to contrast that Ed needs his own reshuffle to show that he is in command of his ship.

Some part of that promise carried over into the first days of the coalition, when the management of the Commons was overhauled to strengthen the hands of backbenchers.

None of the touted attempts of backbenchers to unite together in opposition to Sir Thomas» demands, dispatched in letters sent to around 600 MPs yesterday, appeared likely to succeed.

The Chancellor has certainly been given a clear reminder of the speed at which a hero can appear to become zero in the eyes of some backbenchers.

Since then a procession of backbenchers have made clear they can not support the plan — meaning a crushing defeat for the Government looms in the House of Commons.

He paused and then added, «that's before 95 % of backbenchers hopeful of promotion in the reshuffle are left disappointed.»

In a statement, McCartney said he had made clear his «forthright views» privately to a number of senior party figures on behalf of backbenchers.

But Cameron couldn't stomach the thought of a backbencher having influence over Government policy, even one as minor as circus animals — though a ban has 92 per cent public support.

Separately, a cross-party group of backbenchers led by Grant Shapps, and including the Labour MPs Lucy Powell and Ian Austin, called for air passenger duty to be cut by 50 % in the autumn statement — and gradually reduced over time — to boost Britain's trade performance in the wake of the Brexit vote.

At night, the stacked xenon floodlights could fry the neck hair of the backbenchers in the car in front of you.

He had the option of ignoring the demands of the backbenchers and cabinet ministers clamouring to be able to speak their minds on this most pressing issue.

In particular, the promised in / out referendum on Britain's membership of the EU could badly split the Conservative Party if Cameron campaigns for a vote to remain in the EU while many of his backbenchers — and some frontbenchers — campaign for a «Brexit».

His views were echoed by veteran Conservative Richard Ottaway, who is one of the frontrunners for the chairmanship of the Conservatives» 1922 Committee of backbenchers.

Martin Salter, the Labour MP who ran Mr Bercow's campaign, said he would be the «clean break candidate» who could reform the «arcane» procedures of the Commons while protecting the rights of backbenchers.

Mr Walker was backed up by fellow Tory MP Phillip Davies, who argued the number of ministers needed to fall as well in order to avoid diluting the power of backbenchers.

Supporters of a change seem to be outnumbered by a group of backbenchers, of all parties, who are deeply conservative about the issue.