Sentences with phrase «party backbench»

Conservative Party backbench MPs are behaving themselves.

By avoiding confrontation and by making concessionary gestures to their Coalition partner, their strategy would appear to be to «hang the Liberal Democrats out to dry»; as realistically, the Conservative Party backbench would never pass a bill mandating a grand convention to write a brand new constitution from scratch.

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

Not exact matches

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.

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It is clear that many / some of the attacks on Hilton are coming from the Tory party - eg the leaking of the strategy memos has to be from Tory MPs or staffers, and the aggressive anonymous anti-Hilton briefing from Tory backbench and even at least one frontbench voice, which has been widely quoted.

There are encouraging signs of serious discussions about the directions of the main parties emerging from the front and backbenches.

Berrington, H. & Hague, R (1998) «Europe, Thatcherism and traditionalism: Opinion, rebellion and the Maastricht treaty in the backbench conservative party, 1992 — 1994», West European Politics, vol.

You have to remember as well that this isn't an ex-minister or backbench MP, but the treasurer of the party.

Effective backbench committees and cross party consultations can be developed and become part of the policy - making process.

David Cameron needs to rebuild the «damaged relationships» between himself and Conservative party members, a senior backbench Tory MP has said.

As for the former, the regulation of the parliamentary party has been modified under the coalition government and Cameron has faced an unprecedented scale of persistent backbench revolts throughout his first term.

But a lot of this is Labour's doing, since as long as Ed Miliband's party refuses to sign up for the government motion, government backbench doubters have that much more power to extract concessions.

The move will have dampened hostility towards the Tory leadership from the party's backbenches, which remain predominantly eurosceptic.

The party's foreign affairs backbench committee met with Europe minister David Lidington yesterday to vent their frustrations with the outcome of last week's summit, which many Lib Dems fear will be a diplomatic and economic disaster for Britain.

I think it's fair to conclude that the scepticism about meddling with the composition of the second chamber exhibited yesterday from the Tory backbenches is representative of widespread opposition within the parliamentary party.

This morning's account in the Times (#) of a «dinner table plot to unseat the coalition» turns out to be the second subtantial leak from the No Turning Back Group - the right - of - party - centre backbench dining club of Conservative MPs of which I was once a member.

Field went on to become one of the Labour government's most vocal critics from within the party on the backbenches.

This powerful backbench committee meets weekly with the Prime Minister to communicate the mood of backbench Labour MP's to the Party leadership.

It might be David Cameron but it's more likely to be a backbench MP, or Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg, whose party proudly opposed the war from the start.

He was one of eight Lib Dems who abstained altogether in the vote, which saw 21 of the party's 57 MPs - the bulk of its backbench contingent - rebel outright.

David Cameron has launched another push to change the image of his party after a month of backbench mutterings and open rebellion.

Mr Hendrick added: «What we've got to say to voters is the second world war finished 60 years ago - there are still people on the backbenches of both parties who think we're fighting it.»

ConservativeHome hopes and expects the Parliamentary Conservative Party to undertake policy - making, not least through backbench committees.

Dennis Skinner is the ongest serving member of Labour's executive by a long way, having represented his fellow backbench MPs on the executive since 1999, and having previously served for twenty years as a constituency party representative.

Heseltine remained on the backbenches until, in 1990, with Thatcher apparently losing popularity among the public and her own party, he launched a leadership bid.

Were it not for the disarray in the Labour Party and the unpopularity of the Lib Dems, the fraught relationship between backbench Conservative MPs and the Leader would be significantly worse and the number of letters sent to Graham Brady would be rapidly approaching 46.

The Labour leader was attacked by backbench MPs and even members of his shadow cabinet after the party lost seats in England and Wales and were humiliated in Scotland, where they finished a distant third.

First of all I chaired our backbench committee on Political and Constitutional Reform, where I must admit I felt a complete outsider — not unreasonably when the lead Government spokesman on political and constitutional reform was the Leader of my Party and Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg.

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.

Sacking Damian Green will have left Theresa May more isolated in cabinet but more popular with backbench MPs and members, senior party figures have said.

As the backbench MP Jon Cruddas, perhaps the party's most thoughtful figure on the subject of race and immigration, has said: «If Labour becomes the voice for this sour, shrill, hopeless politics it will die.

He said: «The backbench Eurosceptic opinion is altogether more newsworthy particularly in the rightwing popular press... The party depends for its support on the Conservative mainstream and the more orthodox backbenchers.

The Parliamentary party has excellent MPs - on the backbenches.

Thousands of supporters were mobilised to contact their MPs in support of the campaign, which led to 47 MPs from five parties submitting a request for a backbench business debate.

The bill itself may also prove to be a true test of how in control the prime minister is of his own party given the level of opposition among backbench MPs and his weakened position in the latest ICM poll, published yesterday, in which 63 per cent of voters said Labour would be better off with a new leader.

More than 100 backbench Labour MPs are also thought to oppose the plan creating the potential for a significant showdown between Gordon Brown and his own party at a time when the polls show that many voters think Labour would be better off with a new leader.

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.

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.

«While it is disappointing that our amendment did not win a majority of votes in the House of Commons, what it shows is that pro-European backbench MPs of all parties are not going to simply submit to a hard Brexit.

She also appears to be a ready - made fit for the Tory party's backbench awkward squad, with right - wing views on Europe, abortion and gay marriage.

With an influential Cabinet secretary to lead the malcontents on the Tory backbenches, the eurosceptic wing of the party now presents a much more dangerous threat to the prime minister.

Speaking after the debate, Ms McIntosh said: «The negative behaviour of government backbench MPs today shows that the Labour party simply do [es] not care about the rising fear of crime among the general public.

You even go on to say that he is a backbench MP (so his views are not necessarily that of the party), but then imply that because he is developing a profile as a hero of the grassroots (which is an unsupported claim) he will have a better chance of getting his way; he can be a hero and not get his way of course.

His comments may seem surprising given the divisions exposed within the Labour party during discussions on the education and inspections bill, with 69 backbench MPs rebelling at the report stage.

But the past year has seen a repeat of the drama and turmoil of the Major years: a rancorous party split over Europe within months of victory and a slim commons majority making the government vulnerable to defeats by opposition ambushes and even small backbench rebellions.

But Graham Brady, chairman of the powerful backbench 1922 Committee, questioned whether such a tactic was consistent with «effective party management».

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

In the party's past there were elaborate and sophisticated backbench and other voluntary party structures that made good use of them.

Lord Kalms, a former party Treasurer and the founder of the Dixons retail empire, has given voice to the discontent felt by many disgruntled backbench MPs and influential Tory figures who have privately called on David Cameron to dismiss his close ally following a sharp fall in the party's opinion poll ratings.