Sentences with phrase «resigned as whips»

The changes on Tuesday, as part of a mini-reshuffle after Jenny Willott resigned as a whip, came after Baker intensified his attack on the home secretary by saying he had struggled to introduce policies in the face of a Tory «lurch to the right» in pursuit of Ukip voters.

The departure of Baker prompted Clegg to carry out a mini-reshuffle after Willott, who had been tipped for promotion, informed him that she wanted to resign as a whip so she could raise her profile ahead of a tough fight in her marginal Cardiff Central constituency.

Not exact matches

Mr Mitchell has repeatedly denied the claims, first reported in the Sun, but he later resigned as chief whip.

Andrew Mitchell underwent his first public appearance since he resigned as chief whip today, when he appeared before MPs to explain his decision to reverse an aid cut to Rwanda.

MPs who have been supporters of the group in the past, but are not listed as supporters now, include Stephen Crabb (Preseli Pembrokeshire), Mark Harper (Forest of Dean), David Mundell (Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale), Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire), Graham Stuart (Beverley and Holderness), Desmond Swayne (New Forest West), Christopher Fraser (who retired in 2010 for family reasons), and Bob Spink (who resigned the whip during the last Parliament).

In 2013 one Labour councillor resigned the whip and serves as an Independent.

The chief whip and former international development secretary apologised, met members of the Police Federation and avoided the Conservative party's autumn conference in Birmingham, but was finally forced to resign as public anger about his rant — and what it said about the ruling Conservatives — forced him to quit.

The government then suffered its biggest Tory rebellion to date, in which one ministerial aide was sacked and one resigned as they joined colleagues to defy a three - line whip to vote against the second reading of the Lords reform bill.

Spink was elected three times as Conservative MP for Castle Point in Essex, but in 2008 he either resigned the Conservative whip (his version) or had it withdrawn (the party's version), and defected to UKIP, becoming the party's first and so far only MP.

The action by Cameron and the whips, which came as one rebel ministerial aide resigned and another was sacked, showed that No 10 and the Tory whips were thrown off course by Norman's own whipping operation.

However, I think it is wise of Chris Patten to resign the Tory whip in the House of Lords and to step down as President of Richmond Conservatives, as he is thought to have done.

Matthew Oakeshott resigned the Lib Dem whip in May 2014 after releasing private polls to the Guardian indicating that the party would do better with his ally, the then business secretary Vince Cable, as leader.

[1][2] Both Dobson and Field had been elected as Labour Councillors but resigned from the Labour Group and whip in February 2017 to stand as independents.

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

Clare Short, elected as a Labour MP from the 1983 general election onwards, resigned the Labour whip on 20 October 2006 and wished it to be known that she would continue to sit in the Commons as an Independent Labour MP and a true «Social Democrat».

«On the announcement of the three line whip on the Article 50 vote, I therefore feel I have no choice but to resign from my front bench role as Shadow Minister for Early Years,» she said.

Mark Reckless resigns the Conservative whip joins UKIP and stands down as an MP to trigger a by election.

Close and contentious Commons votes mean drama: lobbying, protests, MPs torn between the demands of constituents and Whips, Governments struggling with rebels - with much of this acted out beneath the blazing glare of the media searchlight, as backbenchers give interviews, Ministers are doorstepped and their Parliamentary aides resign.

Nick Clegg has said that Andrew Mitchell is right to feel «pretty sore» about his treatment at the hands of three police officers who called for him to resign as chief whip last year after allegedly providing a false account of a meeting.

«* Patrick was elected as a Labour MP but resigned the Conservative whip in 2013 after being involved in a Panorama sting operation.»