Sentences with phrase «rebellion by conservative»

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Downing Street has brought forward the Commons» vote on membership of the European Union, as it seeks to quell a potential rebellion by eurosceptic Conservatives.

Many Conservative backbenchers feel emboldened by their mass defiance against the prime minister, whose authority is thought to have been significantly weakened as a result of the rebellion.

Lord Strathclyde, the Conservative leader of the Lords, ostensibly supported the measure in a tongue - in - cheek interview in the Financial Times, but then stoked the rebellion by saying a reformed second chamber would be expensive, possess greater power and, if it had existed in the 1980s, would have blocked Thatcherite privatisation.

Some Conservatives were angered by the intervention of a senior aide to Clegg, who said the Lib Dems would block parliamentary boundary changes in retaliation for a Tory rebellion.

The current league table of Conservative rebels is headed by Ken Clarke (although his rebelliousness is somewhat inflated by very regular rebellion during the passage of the Lisbon Treaty through the Commons); Bob Spink comes second, his 23 dissenting votes all being cast before he left the party and then joined UKIP.

We don't especially like the phrase, but unless one's definition of «the usual suspects» is so wide as to be pointless, a rebellion consisting of 50 Conservative MPs can not by definition solely include the usual suspects.

Before last night Europe accounted for just 5 % of the Conservative rebellions so far this Parliament but 35 % of all the rebellious votes that had been cast by Conservative MPs — with European rebellions more than double the size of the other revolts against the whip.

Backbench rebellions dog Miliband's time as leader, while at the same time the Conservatives, now led by the canny Blair, are looking like real challengers.

The programme motion for Lords reform will appear later this week and a potential rebellion by up to 100 Conservative MPs provokes nightmares for the coalition government.

The previous year of Major's premiership had been beset by infighting within the Conservative party on the issue of Europe, including rebellions in several Parliamentary votes on the Maastricht Treaty.

The Department for Education has stated that when the compulsory academy plan was ditched after a rebellion by backbench Conservative MPs, the Treasury took back most of this extra funding.