Sentences with phrase «own party whips»

The House of Commons is set to approve the measures with a big majority after the pacifist leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, said he would allow his lawmakers a free vote, rather than impose a party whip.

For those unfamiliar with Westminster systems, most parliamentary votes are, as the British say, subject to the party whip: that is, members are expected to vote with the party leadership and are subject to severe retribution (such as being «de-certified» as a party - supported candidate at the next election) if they resist the whip.

First, government leaders deployed party whips effectively to enforce the discipline of their own MPs.

The night was marked by high drama, with reports of the prime minister jabbing his finger at Tory rebel leader Jesse Norman, who was then forced to leave the parliamentary estate following threats from his own party whips.

Lord Cunningham and Lord Mackenzie of Framwellgate were suspended one week ago while Ulster Unionist peer Lord Laird resigned the party whip for offering to act for a foreign energy firm.

That followed the suspension of two Labour peers Lord Cunningham and Lord Mackenzie of Framwellgate, and the resignation of Ulster Unionist peer Lord Laird from the party whip over a sting in which they were caught offering to act for a foreign energy firm.

Chakrabarti is the latest high - profile advocate to enter parliament, with two former directors of public prosecution also taking party whips: Keir Starmer on the green benches for Labour, Ken Macdonald on the red benches for the Liberal Democrats.

Suspension and losing the party whip.

Godfrey Bloom cut a lonely figure as he was filmed leaving the UKIP conference having been suspended from the party whip.

«Clearly, we need a different approach to developing legislation that will get Americans back to work,» Republican leader John Boehner and party Whip Eric Cantor wrote to Pelosi and Hoyer.

BuzzFeed News understands Lewis is set to speak to the party whip about the argument on Wednesday.

The Blairite peer's decision to resign the Labour Party whip and lead a National Infrastructure Commission for George Osborne is entirely consistent with his previous political behaviour.

But his rival, who is currently leading the race to succeed Michael Howard as Conservative leader, insisted he would not tolerate Lord Archer taking the party whip in the Lords.

Earlier this month Speaker John Bercow wrote to Miliband, David Cameron and Nick Clegg appealing to them to stop party whips organising the «orchestrated barracking» which makes PMQs so distinctive.

Labour is to make leadership a defining issue at the next general election, according to a party whip.

But he might wish to note that, in order to do so, they had to defy the party whip again and again.

Alex has stood for the Liberal Democrats a number of times and will be hoping that this historically Lib Dem leaning seat, the ongoing investigation around sitting MP Michelle Thomson (who has resigned the SNP party whip), and his position at the top of the Liberal Democrat list bring his seeking election to a successful end.

Lords ignore party whips and vote to keep UK in the EEA Single Market.

All you'll ever want to know about the MPs who rebelled against the party whip on the House of Lords reform bill

Of the 26 Labour MPs who rebelled against Lords reform, six of them defied the party whip on the EU referendum motion.

There are currently 176 cross-bench peers, organised to some extent as a group, but not taking any party whip.

Then there are peers with hereditary titles, where succeeding generations take a different party whip from their forebears.

-- State funding of political parties — Moving to an electoral system of proportional representation — Reforming the party whip system in Parliament

Walking is a good social pastime, but to me there is nothing like an early morning walk on my own: no phones, no emails or party whips, just the great outdoors, fresh air, diverse wildlife and the heart beating as I make my way up hills to the next great view.

With so many MPs at present, in order to be at all effective, MPs have toact through their party whips.

The party has been broadly united in public since the general election, though shaken over the weekend by Corbyn's sacking of shadow ministers who defied the party whip to vote in favour of an amendment to the Queen's speech brought by Chuka Umunna, committing to keeping the UK in the single market after Brexit.

Lamb defied the party whip on Brexit, abstaining on the article 50 vote instead of voting against, a decision for which he was criticised by some colleagues.

Faced with the uncertainties of a new job, and the potential for future promotion up the ministeral ladder, new MPs are noticeably less likely to defy the party whip.

Burrowes, MP for Enfield, confirmed that party whips had been involved in the discussion about the committee but said did not need the whips to tell him to boycott it.

Antoinette Sandbach, Nick Ramsay, Janet Finch - Saunders and Mohammad Asghar were stripped of their rôles after defying the party whip during a Senedd vote.

Her previous portfolio was Rural Affairs.The four lost their frontbench positions after defying the party whip on a vote

They will also take over the third party whips office which had been run by the Lib Dems for almost a century.

Some are under pressure from their leadership via the party whips, one senior source claimed.

Yesterday Tory leader David Cameron effectively sacked the Old Bexley and Sidcup MP by withdrawing the party whip from him.

But with a Commons working majority of 17 — and with the government reeling from the budget fiasco — party whips are aware they will struggle to get the plans through the Commons.

One party whip described the loss as a game - changer for the hung parliament.

For those who like to see not only those who voted against their party whip in the two crucial votes on possible military intervention in Syria yesterday, but also those who abstained or were absent, we have compiled a complete list.

Nick Clegg is facing a trial of strength with some Liberal Democrat peers after calling for Lord Rennard, the former party chief executive, to lose the party whip in the Lords unless he agrees to apologise for his behaviour.

However more than 80 Labour peers last week defied the party whip by backing an amendment to the EU Withdrawal Bill which would keep Britain in the European Economic Area.

It is deeply troubling that demands by the leadership for an apology were not clearly linked to sanctions that would include, at a minimum, withdrawal of the party whip.»

The letter from the party activists urging the withdrawal of the whip from Rennard is written by members of the Rock the Boat: Lib Dems Against Sexual Harassment group, which said it was deeply troubling that Clegg will would not withdraw the party whip act in the absence of an appropriate statement of regret by the peer at the centre of the controversy.

Nick Clegg is standing firm over the future of Lord Rennard, saying basic decency requires the peer to apologise over harassment allegations before having the party whip restored and that he does not believe this is the time for legal sabre rattling by Rennard's supporters.

Indeed, once you exclude those Lib Dem MPs who are or were at some point members of the «payroll vote», either as ministers or parliamentary private secretaries — and thus expected to remain loyal to the government, there is now not a single Lib Dem MP who has been on the backbenches throughout the parliament and who has remained loyal to the party whip.

This was down to one simple key issue, namely that the peers were unelected (and therefore unselected) which meant that no amount of threatening or bullying by party whips and party machinery could force a change of mind.

Forty - eight Labour MPs, including leadership candidate Jeremy Corbyn and mayoral candidates Sadiq Khan, Diane Abbott and David Lammy, rebelled against their party whips.

He does so by ingeniously entwining Ted Heath as an MP and party whip in the 1960s with the chief of staff and his colleague in the offi ce of a member of today's shadow cabinet.

He resigned the party whip in June and said he was stepping down temporarily while he contested the claims.

I want to see the door left open for those councillors who have resigned the party whip to return so that whoever is elected can be sure that there is a strong Labour group that will work with the Mayor to ensure the needs of Tower Hamlets comes first and we reunite the local party once the dust has settled.»

In 1995 the Procedure Committee recommended that the Member with the longest continuous service (not being a Minister, Assistant Minister, Parliamentary Secretary, party leader or deputy leader, or a party whip) take the Chair during the election of the Speaker, in place of the Clerk, but the House did not adopt this recommendation.49

«A UKIP politician has had the party whip removed after joking that a group of female activists were «sluts».