Sentences with phrase «own backbench»

The Conservative MP, who has been responsible for digital industries in the UK since 2010, added that he was looking forward to supporting government from the backbenches.

Southern Ontario backbench MP Ed Holder has also been brought into the cabinet fold, replacing Rickford as minister of state for science and technology.

Backbench Conservative MP Jacob Rees - Mogg told The Times it would be «foolish» to approve a higher financial settlement for the EU, and former Tory leader Ian Duncan Smith urged the government to «sit tight» as the situation had tipped Brexit negotiation into chaos.

It had been suggested Mr Osborne could have been given Foreign Secretary but in the end there was nothing for him and he returns to the backbenches.

Tyrie, a backbench Tory with an imposing accent and a deeply self - satisfied manner laughed dismissively.

With those eight well - chosen words, a heretofore largely anonymous 48 - year - old backbench Conservative MP named Brent Rathgeber accomplished many things.

The government also backed a backbench Conservative MP's bid to make it legal for Canadians to transport domestic wine from one province to another.

Bow is represented by backbench PC MLA Alana DeLong, who was first elected in 2001.

Finance minister Doug Horner, former deputy premier Thomas Lukaszuk, Health minister Fred Horne, Service Alberta minister Doug Griffiths, former Energy minister Ken Hughes and anti-bullying minister Sandra Jansen all found themselves sitting in the backbenches.

And the quality of our democratic system will be weaker tomorrow with the loss of these nine opposition MLAs into the government backbenches.

Some backbench Liberal MPs have been pushing for Canada to adopt a similar approach as a way to deal with the ongoing opioid crisis.

Because of this, it was widely suspected that the new government would wait until 2016 before deciding which backbench NDP MLAs were cabinet material.

Thomas Lukaszuk (Edmonton - Castle Downs): Cast to the backbenches after Mr. Prentice became premier, Mr. Lukaszuk has not gone quietly.

Mr. Kowalski's time on the backbenches ended in April 1997, when he won a surprise victory against Dunvegan MLA Glen Clegg to become Speaker of the Legislative Assembly (it was suspected that he also had the support of the 18 Liberal MLAs and two NDP MLAs in the Assembly).

He has been outspoken from his spot in the backbenches, leading some political watchers to believe he could be the next Ken Kowalski.

Rewarded for his most (if only) significant political decision is backbench MLA Art Johnston, who was appointed Parliamentary Assistant to Executive Council (which means he gets to carry Premier Redford's briefing binder in the Assembly).

Notable cabinet ministers joining the great unwashed masses in the Tory backbenches include Sherwood Park MLA Iris Evans, Vermilion - Lloydminster MLA Lloyd Snelgrove, Innisfail - Sylvan Lake MLA Luke Ouellette, Edmonton - Mill Creek MLA Gene Zwozdesky, Calgary - Cross MLA Yvonne Fritz, Calgary - Shaw MLA Cindy Ady, and Medicine Hat MLA Rob Renner.

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.

For the next few years, Mr. Kowalski languished in the Tory backbenches, emerging to criticize Premier Klein and his cabinet ministers ever so often (even once accusing them of ««misleading the public pretty dramatically about cuts to his former Ministry of Economic Development and Trade).

I have created a Google Map tracking the international travel of Premier Redford, cabinet ministers, and backbench Tory MLAs since November 2011.

Over the past eleven months, Premier Redford, cabinet ministers, and backbench Tory MLAs have traveled extensively on government business.

Meanwhile, many backbench House members were unwilling to go along with any deal that only made small cuts in spending.

Premier's Political Editor Martyn Eden says the EDM is used by backbench MPs to keep pressure and scrutiny on the government to follow through with promises and proposals.

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.

The ban is gaining support on the Liberal Party backbench, but Nationals MPs insist it is the wrong way to approach it.

It seems the road to Damascus starts at the ministerial wing and winds via the backbench.

Dwyane Wade, sitting on a backbench inside the practice court at the Air Canada Center, peers out at the gym, at men clad in black Heat practice hoodies folding up mats, collecting stray bags and basketballs, rearranging weights in the training room.

This is not a narrative memoir with the usual «I was born at an early age» and a list of tedious political meetings and minor backbench and then ministerial successes.

Oral Questions - Culture, Media and Sport, including Topical Questions; Women and Equalities Business Statement - Leader of the House Backbench Business -(i) Protecting future generations from violence against women and girls (ii) Preventing sexual violence in conflict Adjournment - Coventry and Warwickshire city deal - Chris White

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?

«Those rules aren't good enough and are failing to inspire public confidence,» Don Foster, co-chair of the Lib Dems» backbench culture, media and sport policy committee, said.

What power, or powers, do Whips have over backbench MPs to enforce this wish?

He is known to be both well - liked by his backbench colleagues and highly regarded by Number 10.

Baroness Walmsley, co-chair of the Lib Dems» backbench education, families and young people committee, added: «We should trust the governors, teachers and parents to make their local choice in local circumstances after proper consultation, which is in the Act.»

The business secretary's criticisms of «dog - whistle politics» were not targeted at backbench irrelevances.

Huge cheers from the Tory backbenches.

Then there's another Commons debate, probably later that week on Thursday 29 October, on a backbench motion proposed by Labour's welfare guru and ex-minister Frank Field with all party backing.

Liberal Democrat home affairs backbench spokesperson Tom Brake also stated that high ranking officers he had spoken to expressed «no desire» to use such extreme methods of crowd control.

Questions - Business, Innovation and Skills, including Topical Questions Business statement - Leader of the House Backbench business — Motion relating to the introduction of charging for Big Ben Clock Tower tours, Motion relating to reform of the Common Fisheries Policy Adjournment debate — Effect of reductions to legal aid on legal aid providers

Questions - Northern Ireland Prime minister's questions Ten minute rule motion - Food labelling (Halal Meat) Debate - The Prime Minister will propose a humble address to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty the Queen Backbench Business - Motion relating to human rights abuses and the death of Sergei Magnitsky Adjournment debate - Progress of the historical enquiries team

The backbench MP has served since 1997 and is stepping down due to a number of personal problems, and said he no longer possesses «the physical and mental stamina» to fulfil the role.

The Commons will vote on the matter in backbench business time amid growing pressure about current arrangements.

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

One of Farron's big selling points was he sat on the backbenches then, freeing him from accusations he was backing the Conservatives.

Questions - transport Business statement - leader of the House Backbench business - ATOS work capability assessments Backbench business - nuclear deterrent

The chair of the 1922 Committee of backbench MPs said his claims for # 106,141 of maintenance work over five years were «acceptable», including the work he had done on his «helipad» - which he held was not a real helipad.

To secure this, you'll need to obtain significant parliamentary backbench support, which is largely done through the most traditional of communication channels: face to face conversation.

Questions - Communities and Local Government, including Topical Questions Motions - Relating to the Backbench Business Committee, Committee on Standards and Committee of Privileges, Code of Conduct, All - party groups, Scrutiny of certain draft orders Adjournment debate - Provision of Traveller sites in Bournemouth and Poole, Dorset

James Wharton, who shot to fame when he tried to pilot the first EU referendum bill from the backbenches, lost his Stockton South seat and his job as an international development minister on 8 June.

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.