Sentences with phrase «speech as a backbencher»
The Bill had its Second Reading in the Commons yesterday, during which new Oldham East and Saddleworth MP Debbie Abrahams gave her maiden speech and David Miliband gave his first full speech as a backbencher since losing the Labour leadership.
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As prime minister David Cameron works on the finishing touches of his much - awaited speech on Europe and immigration he is under considerable pressure from his backbenchers and some frontbenchers to signal that he is ready to campaign to leave the European Union.
However, most Labour MPs see the PM's speech today as a way of pleasing his own backbenchers, as opposed to acting in the country's best interest.
They point to his propensity for long, meandering speeches to kill off pieces of nascent legislation, such as attempts by backbenchers to regulate payday lenders and to stop rogue landlords evicting tenants asking for basic repairs.
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».
Yet over the following three hours, not one Labour backbencher was moved to deliver a speech in favour of the BIll, as shadow Treasury spokesman David Gauke noted in his summing up: