Sentences with phrase «still-folded back bench»

The Compagno has a standing board for the older child, in addition to the seat, and both the front seat and back bench are padded and plush.

If things plough on as they are, it will mean that in effect 50 back bench places will go.

That disappointment is nothing compared with the words which the Leader of the House uttered, but let me say this to those outside and to everyone in this House; the Leader of the House and the noble Baroness, Lady Thornton, have been supporters of these rights throughout their time in office and on the Back Benches, they have worked incredibly hard to secure us our free vote, and I thank them wholeheartedly for their continued support, whatever small print they were forced to read out.

he asked, with much laughter from his back benches.

He also heaped praise on Theresa May and left the door open to the possibility of a return to frontline politics, saying: «If the chance came to serve again then of course I would happily say yes, but I'm very happy being on the back benches at the moment because it gives me the opportunity to do all sorts of other things.»

The same old MPs who were the leading Maastricht rebels — Sir Bill Cash, Iain Duncan Smith and Bernard Jenkin — are now spearheading the campaign for a «hard Brexit» on the back benches.

Suddenly it wasn't just a few malcontents on the Tory back benches plotting against him.

Green was loyal — and no doubt will remain so on the back benches — but he was no Michael Heseltine.

Ignore the deficit hawks, the Tory partisans and the faint - hearted on your own back benches.

We'll give her a huge welcome on to our back benches.

Of course, in forming her government Prime Minister May has purged a whole raft of ministers, reshuffled others and promoted or recalled to the colours some who have lingered on the back benches.

He added: «If someone said to me why I am so interested in politics and being an MP and all that, I want to show you can be of my race and my class and be a front bench member, a back bench member, a fully paid up member of the Conservative party.

recent sexual harassment allegations, the scarcity of women or ethnic minority MPs in the party's front and back benches and the failed attempts to oust Nick Clegg as party leader are hardly stories that will improve the image of an already unpopular party.

Mandelson resigned and was forced to return to the back benches.

Cheryl Gillan has confirmed on Twitter that she'll be returning to the back benches, as David Cameron's reshuffle gets under way.

This has been the first year for a long time when the back benches and front bench appear to have been working as one - long may that continue.

There were signs on Thursday before Purnell's bombshell that Brown was getting cold feet about sending Alistair Darling to the back benches.

It made visible the tensions between the Party's front and back benches over strategy, policy, and the future of the Coalition itself.

Those on the back benches who failed to join various rebellions were as spineless, intimidated by Nick Brown and his whips into betraying their voters — and the vulnerable always best protected by a Labour government.

Huw Irranca - Davies was quite good at the constructive criticism thing from the Labour back benches yesterday, as was Mark Field from the Conservative back benches today.

«I wish to remain on the back benches and to speak up for the things that matter to me and my constituents.

After George Osborne's Budget triumph, if the going gets rocky for the Prime Minister in the months ahead — in his attempts to re-negotiate the terms of Britain's EU membership, for example — the clamour from the Tory back benches for Mr Osborne to move next door from No. 11 to No. 10 Downing Street earlier than Mr Cameron would like will grow among those backbenchers who cheered his Budget wildly and waved their order papers in a frenzy.

Prior to setting up his own communications business, he was on the Conservative Party's professional staff working for Ministers and high - profile back bench MPs, where he masterminded and devised a number of community campaigns which saw the Conservative Party holding to a number of highly marginal seats.

Friends of the Earth's parliamentary campaigner Martyn Williams said: «Ministers are ignoring advice from scientists and more than two thirds of back bench Labour MPs who are calling for the climate change bill to be strengthened.

Demos worked on Pataki's 1998 re-election campaign — the one in which Pataki cruised to victory against his Democratic opponent, former NYC Council Speaker Peter Vallone, after coming from pretty much nowhere (the back bench of the state Senate) to oust liberal icon Mario Cuomo from the governor's office four years earlier.

If he lacks talent in his government, he will lose anyway, and, if the government succeeds, his popularity will discourage those on the back benches from trying to remove him.

«This is a nonsensical debate,» he bellowed from his back bench.

Britain needs a strong and commited Tory on the back benches to make sure there is no back - sliding from Cameron, once he is in power.

By contrast when there is a serious debate in the Commons it is a joy to hear the contributions of those all leaders from Haig onwards have consigned to the back benches.

David Davis on the back benches will mean that he can exert far more pressure on Cameron to become much more radical.

Then, a still - principled Mr Cable (at least in his own mind) could return to the back benches and, while earning pots of money, he would act as a rallying point for disgruntled Lib Dems both at Westminster and in the country.

My hope is that David Davis will return to the back benches as a powerful figure of serious public standing.

But his view is not shared on the Conservative back benches.

To recap: we now have a party led by a man who never expected to leave the back benches; a shadow chancellor best described as «maverick», with a treasure trove of past quotes already carefully dug up and filed at Tory HQ, providing a handy media drip - feed for the next five years.

Diversity on the bench will come only if there's a strong back bench to draw from.

McDonnell played down unease on the back benches, saying he welcomed both these contributions — particularly because of the focus on inequality.

That has obvious potential for a Conservative, Eurosceptic, back bench rebellion.

I'd sacrifice almost any member of the cabinet to the back benches for him to return.

Cambridgeshire MP Andrew Lansley heads to the back benches after he was replaced as leader of the House of Commons.

If such a powerful figure as Kinnock Could take with him, the generation that Had his father, Neil as their hero, Labour first, those who realise he saved the Labour party, Roy Hattersley, Fabians, the Co-op, compass, as well as the 174 back bench MPS,

It is usually separate from the party leadership and keeps it informed about the mood on the back benches.

He now occupies a back bench in the Assembly.

Under plans to be proposed by a back bench MP, any daughter of Prince William would be able to succeed her father as Queen on the basis of age.

I think Parliament actually benefits from having people of experience on the back benches, rather than it just being a training ground for young, ambitious newcomers.»

You kindly offered a most interesting shadow minister of state role, but having served on the Opposition front bench for nearly ten years, mostly in the Shadow Cabinet, I would prefer to return to the back benches.

Asked whether it would not seem odd to have such a big hitter on the back benches, Dr Fox said: «No.

Since then, he has enjoyed a lucrative business career and built up credit with his back bench speeches.

But the suspicion must remain that these politicians are not being honoured for exemplary service but rather rewarded for failure, and, perhaps even more pertinently, to encourage them not to cause problems for the Government from the back benches.

«Of course he is [free to express his views], but he will not be doing it as a spokesperson of the Parliamentary Labour Party, he'll be doing it from the back benches.»

The former leader revealed he was not invited «formally» to serve on Mr Corbyn's front bench and said he has «made clear for some time» that he is currently content on the back benches.