Sentences with phrase «party as a backbencher»

The Stalybridge MP announced his departure on Facebook, saying he felt it was best if he serves the Labour party as a backbencher.

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Gordon Brown's authority faces another test as Labour backbenchers square up over an amendment barring tax exiles from being party donors.

Conversations over issues where the parties have a shared interest, like Lords reform, are suspected by Tory backbenchers of being used as a cover for discussions about longer - term prospects.

But to dismiss Miliband himself as a failure as leader, as centre - right commentators and Blairite backbenchers tend to do, is bizarre when the only metrics we have (by - elections, opinion polls, increasing numbers of party members) suggest that Labour is on the road to recovery.

She may have only been an MP for a few weeks, but Jess Phillips is already making a name for herself as one of the Labour party's more interesting backbenchers.

The new government's majority is also smaller than the outgoing coalition's and the party's leaders will face a growing challenge from rebellious backbenchers, just as John Major, elected in similar circumstances, did after 1992.

Whether Osborne is now officially the Tory backbenchers» favourite to replace David Cameron as party leader, as the report suggests, I don't know — but his position is certainly far less vulnerable than it was last summer, when I wrote about it for the Times (#).

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.

The Prime Minister is also the only one of the three main party leaders committed to giving the British people an in - out referendum on membership of a reformed EU, a Downing Street spokesman has said, as backbenchers urged David Cameron to adopt new veto powers.

There will be a tough parliamentary party meeting this week as backbenchers vent their worries.

His comments came as the chairwoman of the parliamentary Labour party (PLP) called on backbenchers to support Mr Prescott.

If the voting age is to be lowered, it should come about as a result of general acceptance in society, a campaign from backbenchers in Parliament, and / or being prominently placed in the manifesto of a winning party - all of which would follow a period of serious consideration of the issue.

A Conservative backbencher suggesting a pact with UKIP said Nigel Farage has got «a lot of talent» when asked if the smaller party leader could serve as a minister in a Tory government.

Tory backbenchers are risking resuscitating the party's «nasty» tag today, as they put the finishing touches on a package of policy measures which includes harsh conditions on housing benefit for teenage mothers.

As one backbencher observed, our legislators often make their worst decisions when the three main parties agree.

2013 has begun with unusually high levels of party unity, as Cameron's respect to his backbenchers appeared to show today.

In doing so, Cameron will appeal to both the traditional wing of his parliamentary party and the country at large, although some are bound to interpret this approach as a lurch to the right, or more red meat for the PM's unruly backbenchers.

In keeping with the Tory backbencher's own good breeding, his advice was that his party «should be enormously polite about UKIP» and that it should try to understand their virtues as well as their vices.

Many Tory backbenchers are reassured by the presence of a man obsessed with their pet issues, such as immigration and welfare, and are willing to accept his demands for discipline in the parliamentary party.

The influential backbencher Jon Cruddas, who is on the left of the parliamentary party and whom some consider to be a «kingmaker», described it as «the most important speech by a Labour politician for many years».

Some of Corbyn's close allies in the parliamentary party regard the ferocity of the backlash against Livingstone by prominent backbenchers, such as Wes Streeting, and former ministers, including Andy Burnham, as a «witch hunt», aimed at undermining the leader in the run up to the local elections.

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.

Any cut would most obviously affect those currently in the inner sanctum who can expect top jobs, which may surprise some of the party's backbenchers who felt the Tory leadership protected their own so - called Notting Hill set while being happy to hang out to dry old guard backbenchers such as Anthony Steen, who stood down over the expenses scandal.

While the government's front benchers sat together in the House of Commons and the two parties acted as a bloc during PMQ, [11] the Liberal Democrat and Conservative backbenchers sat apart and each had their own whips, [11] and the two parties competed in by - elections.

The deputy leader's warning comes as a Labour backbencher launched a stinging attack on Corbyn and the direction of the party under his stewardship.

A handful of other backbenchers followed, including Jo Stevens, who quit as shadow Welsh secretary over her party's Brexit approach and compared triggering Article 50 to a «funeral».

I'm afraid that the world has moved on from the time when a well crafted piece from John Redwood would be enough to send potential Ukip jacks back into their Tory boxes.A party where the old guard of Maude Clarke, Hurd, Heseltine, Gummer, Patten etc clearly now pull the strings of an inexperienced leader just endorses the fear of being conned.What did happen to the Tory policy on fisheries?Why can only backbenchers support BOO whilst shadow (non) ministers and whips are blackmailed into supporting the collective policy of continued EU membership.Why would those seeking disengagement from what even the most active champions of the EU now CONTINUALLY refer to as an experiment vote Conservative?

The release of the list comes as a number of backbenchers have been making high - profile interventions against the Conservatives in a bid to try to show Labour members that they are still active within the party.

As another influential Labour backbencher, Clive Efford, argued that the existing shadow cabinet deserved to keep their positions, Harman said she would expect former critics in the party to now be happy to serve under Corbyn.

Labour denied reports of a heated telephone conversation between Brown and Clegg, and support among Brown's Cabinet colleagues remained strong, but one backbencher, John Mann, urged Brown to step aside as Labour leader before the party conference in September, arguing that Brown's continued leadership «rules out the credibility of a Lib / Lab pact».

Jeremy Corbyn's shadow cabinet deserve to retain their positions, an influential backbencher has said, as he urged MPs who have previously been critical of the Labour leader to back the party's top team.

The backbencher spoke out as the leaders of Britain's three main political parties woke up to the uncomfortable fact that England had caught up with the devolved nations and now had four main parties.

Today David Cameron spoke not as prime minister but as a Tory party leader backed into a corner by his outspoken tea - party backbenchers.

The paper also lists Ben Bradshaw, David Lammy, Daniel Zeichner and Chris Leslie as among the backbenchers prepared to defy party orders.

Having spent more time with his family, Fowler then returned twice to front line politics, first as Chairman of the Conservative Party (as a backbencher in Parliament) from 1992 - 4, during which time he oversaw the Boundary Changes in the early 1990s; then on the Conservative front bench as Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Transport and the Regions, 1997 - 8 and finally, as Shadow Home Secretary, 1998 - 9.

Some Labour backbenchers regard Momentum as a party within a party, organising its members to put pressure on MPs from other wings of the party to fall in behind Corbyn's line on certain issues, such as rejecting military action in Syria.

David Cameron's faltering leadership of the Conservatives is dogged by whispers that party donors and backbenchers are lining up London's mayor as his replacement.

Labour has an absolute majority in the Commons, even if every single non-Labour MP voted against it is unlikely that even the most rebellious Labour Backbencher would bite against their party especially those in marginal seats as Turkeys do not vote for Xmas.