Sentences with phrase «than conservative mps»

It is also clear that Labour MPs give the initiative a lower priority than Conservative MPs.

Not exact matches

Lose that and a Conservative leader can be removed by their own MPs more easily than in any other party.

There is a long - standing trend within the Parliamentary Conservative Party that privately schooled and Oxbridge educated MPs are more likely to be socially liberal and less Eurosceptic than their state - schooled and non-Oxbridge educated colleagues.

Conservative peers are usually more socially liberal than Labour MPs.

A majority of Conservative MPs with military experience want to leave the European Union and less than a third want to remain.

There's plenty of talk of the Scottish Conservative MPs owing their loyalty to Ruth Davidson rather than Theresa May, but they'd be well to remember that it was the PM that put them in parliament just as much as it was Ruth Davidson.

Blair knew he would always secure a Commons» majority as most Conservative MPs were more hung ho about the war than him, part of his calculation as he became trapped.

The report praises the Tories» fundraising strategy, saying the party received more money than it could spend and is well placed if another election is called and says one of David Cameron's greatest legacies will be a new generation of Conservative MPs, but it also says he will have difficult relations with his party.

Still, while all MPs do better among those who will vote for that party than those who won't, Lib Dems appear to be able to connect with non-supporters in a way that neither Labour nor Conservative MPs can.

We also have more Tory MPs who are interested in policy than ever before and there are more think tanks producing policies consistent with Conservative philosophy.

For many Conservative MPs and cabinet ministers, that might be better than an uncertain leadership contest that could hand the prize to someone detested by at least one side of the Brexit divide.

Imagine it now has 295 MPs in the new House of Commons, 30 more than the Conservatives - even though the Tories have won a million more votes.

Nicholas Watt of the Guardian is tweeting Labour sources as saying that more Conservative MPs have voted against the Prime Minister than with him.

We have the Liberal Democrats in government with us and they have fewer women ministers and MPs than we do, but I think 50 % would be difficult to get to by 2020 but if you look at the candidates we're selecting, including candidates in replacement seats, Conservative - held seats, I think over 33 % are women candidates.

But a number of Conservative MPs are less - than - enamoured with Boris.

If we look at the 2010 general election results, we can see that 116 MPs (from 649 excluding the speaker) got a higher vote share than the average Conservative leader, versus 48 for the Labour leader and 277 for the Liberal Democrat leader.

A minority Conservative administration governing from the right — the preferred option of many Tory backbenchers — would therefore require more MPs than is currently being predicted.

The vote showed that, with full Conservative and DUP support, coupled with that of a few MPs from other parties, a future majority for an EU referendum could depend on just a handful of Labour MPs - many fewer than are known to support an EU referendum.

The ideological distance between Labour members and MPs is in fact smaller than that between Conservative members and MPs.

For although there are some signs of discontent on specific issues, overall Conservative MPs are currently less rebellious than their government colleagues, not more.

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.

It noted that «Labour MPs dissent more often than Conservatives; they dissent in great numbers than Conservatives; and they dissent on more issues than Conservatives» — and concluded that «judging from their current voting behaviour, there is the real possibility that any future Labour Government will face significant backbench dissent».

ComRes tell me that they questioned «101 Conservative PPCs [with] two - thirds of the sample replacing MPs standing down or in seats requiring a swing of less than 10 %.»

Conservative MPs are currently rebelling less often than Labour MPs (in around 11 % of divisions in the first three sessions of the 2005 parliament, less than half the rate on the government benches) and they are doing so in smaller numbers; although a slightly larger proportion of Conservative parliamentarians has rebelled compared to Labour, few have cast more than a handful of dissenting votes, and even the most rebellious would not find themselves high up the PLP's league table of troublemakers.

The press as kingmaker!The Daily Mail swung the 1924 election for the Tories by publishing the forged Zinoviev letter.The use by «The Telegraph» of purloined discs on MPs expenses was more damaging to Labour than the conservatives because it discredited parliament, differential voting did the rest.

Half of all Conservative MPs were elected for the first time at the last election, and Tory backbenchers have rebelled more since it took place than in any previous post-war Parliament.

Three days later, Heseltine was one of around two dozen Conservative MPs who defied the whip to abstain rather than vote against the second reading of the 1968 Race Relations Bill (which banned racial discrimination).

Throughout yesterday it had seemed as if his politicking would actually backfire by bringing the Conservatives together; many of the Tory MPs I spoke to complained that the debate's tone was far more partisan than necessary, and pointed the finger at Miliband as a result.

As for the Labour Party being indecisive, there were only 154 Labour MPs left in Parliament after the election rout of November 1935, which the Conservatives had won with more than half the total votes cast, an outcome that is difficult to quibble about.

The next Prime Minister will come from within the Conservative MP block and they are nominated by MPs from within the Tory Party, ratified by the Tory executive, and in the case of more than one nominated candidate, elected by the Tory Membership.

It would benefit the coalition's junior party, as it always receives fewer MPs per seats than either Labour or the Conservatives.

If the Conservative MPs let him survive — and Conservatives are much more ruthless in that respect than their Labour counterparts — it will be at a brutally heavy price.

It was also one of the results in the London suburbs that has left Conservative MPs less confident about a Zac Goldsmith victory in the London mayoral election in 2016 than they were about Boris Johnson winning in 2008 and 2012.

Although there are now more women in parliament than ever, there are currently only 67 female Conservatives MPs.

* Instead, keep your eye on Liberal Democrat MPs (most of whom would rather work with you than with the Conservatives) and Liberal Democrat voters (most of whom would rather vote for you than the Conservatives).

Among other results, Lord Ashcroft's polls suggested that the growth in SNP support would translate into more than 50 seats; [124] that there was little overall pattern in Labour and Conservative Party marginals; [125] that the Green Party MP Caroline Lucas would retain her seat; [126] that both Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg and UKIP leader Nigel Farage would face very close races to be elected in their own constituencies; [127] and that Liberal Democrat MPs would enjoy an incumbency effect that would lose fewer MPs than their national polling implied.

On current evidence, the SNP could return 30 - 50 MPs on 3 - 4 % of the UK vote, and these MPs will be much more inclined to work with Labour than the Conservatives (something recent Conservative attack ads will only have encouraged).

And after his recent disparaging remarks about small businessmen, the newly - ennobled entrepreneur was the subject of no fewer than four questions from Conservative MPs when ministers from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills came to the Despatch Box yesterday.

The election produced a hung parliament, with the Conservative Party led by Arthur Balfour and their Liberal Unionist allies receiving the largest number of votes, but the Liberals led by H. H. Asquith winning the largest number of seats, returning two more MPs than the Conservatives.

In the actual 2015 seats, Conservative MPs in England and Wales represented rather larger constituencies (in terms of the electorate) than did Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs.

Given that there are more than 300 Tory MPs he calculates that AT LEAST 80 Conservatives were unavailable, abstained or voted against the government.

The Tories are the worst offenders with less than a third of all current Conservative MPs having had any previous connection to the constituencies they were elected to serve in.

Less than a quarter of the Labour MPs that signed up to an early day motion expressing concern at the government's plans to reduce funding for equivalent or lower qualification (ELQ) degrees voted against the government in a Conservative - led motion last night.

Saying that he is now aiming for more than 100 gains on the party's 63 MPs, and even the largest share of the vote, Clegg says: «I don't think the choice is between Conservative and Labour — the choice is now between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats.»

The Liberal Democrats currently have 101 peers but only eight MPs, while the Conservative Party, which has an overall majority in the Commons, has has fewer life peers than the Labour Party.

That is one reason which if there is a similar number of Labour and Conservative MPs elected a Lib Dem coalition with the former is less likely than the latter.

Come to think of it, the present one has more male Liberal Democrat MPs than female Conservative ones.

Labour has a much larger talent pool of female MPs than the Conservatives and we've still failed to elect a woman leader.

Charles Walker, a vice-chairman of the 1922 Committee of Conservative backbenchers, said more than half of the 305 Tory MPs would back leaving the EU, and would campaign to do so in a referendum.

Former Conservative Party chairman Lord Tebbit told BBC Radio 5 Live that MPs should take the blame for the expenses crisis, rather than the institution of parliament.