Sentences with phrase «party whip»

Ballard became the election agent for A. V. Alexander in the Sheffield Hillsborough constituency in 1922; [1] Alexander gained the seat for the Co-operative Party, taking the Labour Party whip in Parliament.

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

Mercer resigned the Conservative Party whip on 31 May 2013 after an investigation by the Daily Telegraph and BBC's Panorama caught him on camera accepting payment for lobbying.

In November, Farrelly was investigated by party whips after claims he confronted fellow Labour members who were queuing to vote after a late - night Commons debate on Brexit.

Lord Taylor of Warwick has resigned the Tory party whip after it was announced he would face false accounting charges over his expenses.

The backbencher has become «disillusioned with parliament» and is standing down in protest at the dominance of party whips, which he claims undermines the public's rights and liberties.

The name Frank Underwood was both an acknowledgement of the original trilogy's protagonist Francis Urquhart and to the US political system itself, as Oscar Underwood was the first ever party whip for the US Democratic Party.

In October 2015, he resigned the Labour Party whip in the House of Lords to sit as a non-affiliated Peer and lead a newly created National Infrastructure Commission (NIC).

Mid-Bedfordshire MP Nadine Dorries has said she will learn next week whether she is to be restored to the Conservative Party whip.

Wavering rebels sought to explain their dilemmas as party whips and senior officials sought to frantically convince them to vote with the government or abstain.

Hancock, who is a cabinet member for Portsmouth city council, had already resigned the parliamentary party whip last year, but was still sitting as a Lib Dem local councillor until the local group ruled that his suspension meant it must strip him of the party banner.

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.

«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.

MPs boost their income if they become party whip or caucus chairman.

Congressman Pastor is Assistant Democratic Party whip, and was a co-sponsor of the Affordable Care Act aka Obamacare.

Hancock resigned the parliamentary party whip last year but was still sitting as a Lib Dem local councillor.

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.

Significant numbers of both Liberal Democrat and Conservative backbenchers have warned party whips that they may not be able to support the government on this evening's motion.

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.

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

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

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

A heart attack suffered by Labour politician Leslie Spriggs in 1974 became the subject of an anecdote by MP Joe Ashton, illustrating the sometimes extreme lengths party whips would go to in cases of Division:

While in Washington at the offer of the DCCC he confirmed that he had briefly met U.S. Rep. Steny Hoyer of Maryland, minority party whip,

Elected in 1929 as an «Independent Labour» MP due to an oversight, but took the Labour Party whip immediately.

To the chagrin of the formerly hugely influential party whips, most committee chairs are now elected by a secret ballot of all MPs, and committee members selected by their parties through internal ballot.

British author and politician Michael Dobbs wrote a trilogy of books, centred around a fictional party whip named Francis Urquhart, which was dramatised and broadcast on the British Broadcasting Corporation between 1990 and 1995.

Graham Brady, the chair of the 1922 committee, denied that claim, saying the Cameron plans had involved giving party whips too much power.

Although South Africa uses a proportional representation system, the concept of a political party whip, which was inherited from colonial British rule, has been maintained [18][19].

Ukip leader blames anonymous figure within the party for whipping up row and accuses Tories of trying to destabilise the party

Hancock resigned the Liberal Democrat party whip in January this year so that he could «concentrate on fighting these proceedings».

So were May's election to be a guide, this would mean that two thirds of elected members would not take the governing party whip, extending further potential opposition.

But in any case, my independent (free party whip) «Sod Scotland» (Free the turf) Referendum Yes campaign is accepting 2014 donations!

Jonathan Heppner, 29, of Woodstock, had been elected party whip at a Democratic caucus last month.

Generally I see them as little party whips.

The row makes it more likely that Mr Cameron will delay a ministerial reshuffle until after the Commons votes on the issue early next month — to enable party whips to dangle the prospect of promotion in front of potential rebels.

A Conservative MP who plans to stand again in the 2015 general election, compares life at Westminster with being a «sheep going through a sheep dip», and how party whips are able to «bully the workforce».

A Conservative MP compared life at Westminster with being a «sheep going through a sheep dip», and said party whips were able to «bully the workforce».

Ms. Smith son, Rep. Smith, the 2011 Missouri House party whip, sponsored a repeal bill in the state legislature against Proposition B, before it went into effect in November 2011.

The data was requested by Nationals senator and party whip John Williams, who has argued that the carbon emissions produced by the new plants worldwide would eclipse Australia's total carbon emission profile.

The anti-defection law (Schedule 10 of the Indian constitution) requires Members of Parliament to only vote according to party whips on all Bills in the Parliament.

They were not the playthings of party whips.

He resigned the Labour Party whip in 1982 in protest at left wing militancy.

[38] Under Conservative Party rules, a sitting MP can only be an approved Conservative party candidate in a parliamentary election if he / she has the Conservative Party whip.

Perhaps the compromise was the election of Jonathan Heppner of Woodstock as No. 2, Democratic Party whip, to replace the defeated Pete Loughran of Kingston.

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.