Sentences with phrase «when backbench»

If you think something is right to do, don't wait for it to be proved a few months into the government, when backbench and frontbench aren't talking to each other properly, get on and do it, and ask the party to make that change.

Even with a big majority, there were times when backbench rebellions meant their plans for England were pushed through Parliament against the wishes of English MPs, and only Scottish votes secured a majority for Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.

There will be further changes to the way the House does business when the Backbench Business Committee is able to look at both Government legislation and Back - Bench business, and we are told that that will not start until the third year of this Parliament — another recipe for delay.

Not exact matches

Mr. Kowalski's time on the backbenches ended in April 1997, when he won a surprise victory against Dunvegan MLA Glen Clegg to become Speaker of the Legislative Assembly (it was suspected that he also had the support of the 18 Liberal MLAs and two NDP MLAs in the Assembly).

James Wharton, who shot to fame when he tried to pilot the first EU referendum bill from the backbenches, lost his Stockton South seat and his job as an international development minister on 8 June.

The biggest post-war rebellion on Lords reform was 47, when Labour backbenches revolted against a white paper in November 1968

Their aim has been to prepare the ground for a backbench debate on Thursday in which MPs will hold a symbolic vote on returning to the old days when Prime Ministers had full discretion to call elections as they saw fit.

The comments, which came as an aside during a case won by the government, triggered outrage among eurosceptics on the Tory backbenches, who said the UK had been tricked into believing it had an opt - out from the convention when Labour signed up during the Lisbon negotiations.

But the fear that other Tory MPs may follow Carswell's lead settled down later when Liam Fox — seen by many as a figure - head for right wing Tories on the backbenches — went on TV to criticise his decision.

He was a member of the Treasury Select Committee from 2004 until he was briefly, in 2005, a spokesman on work and pensions under the leadership of Michael Howard, but returned to the backbenches later in the year when David Cameron became Conservative leader.

The government is braced for another Labour backbench rebellion when MPs vote on the final stages of the controversial education bill today and tomorrow.

The government fought off a backbench rebellion of 69 MPs last night when the Conservatives helped them get through the report stage of the education bill.

Following the 2001 general election Angela was moved to The Home Office where she remained until the reshuffle in May 2002 when she returned to the backbenches.

That said, when it comes to backbench rebellion, past behaviour is a usually an excellent predictor of future action, and those individuals currently rebelling will almost certainly go on to be the most troublesome for the whips in the next parliament.

First of all I chaired our backbench committee on Political and Constitutional Reform, where I must admit I felt a complete outsider — not unreasonably when the lead Government spokesman on political and constitutional reform was the Leader of my Party and Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg.

Last night, backbench Tory MP Phillip Davies said: «This is the kind of garbage we have to put up with when in coalition with the Liberal Democrats.»

A lot of backbench MPs only speak out on their constituency when they are in the Chamber, as opposed to chipping in on Commons statements on national or international matters.

More than 100 backbench Labour MPs are also thought to oppose the plan creating the potential for a significant showdown between Gordon Brown and his own party at a time when the polls show that many voters think Labour would be better off with a new leader.

Backbench MPs worried about their seats would do well to ask when the number of frustrated renters will overtake the mortgaged homeowners in their patch.

One option is to copy the Tories» practice, when they were previously in government, of having backbench committees on particular subjects.

The debate gives the Deputy Leader of the House the opportunity to confirm for the avoidance of doubt, as lawyers would say, that the commitment in the coalition agreement will be complied with, and when he gives that commitment perhaps he would also answer my hon. Friend's question on whether there will be a House business committee and the Backbench Business Committee or just one covering both important subjects.»

I just say to the hon. Gentleman, who is chattering incessantly from a sedentary position, that when he was Deputy Leader of the House he did not introduce a Backbench Business Committee.

Labour backbench MP David Lammy slammed the Home Office's response saying that the Windrush migrants were already citizens when they came to the country 70 years ago.

It was when Hilary Benn said that he would be prepared to speak from the backbenches in the Syria debate, in order to avoid opposing party policy, that Corbyn realised he would have to give way.

The flashpoint could come as soon as tomorrow's weekly meeting of the parliamentary Labour party at Westminster, when Brown is expected to address his backbench MPs.

If Cameron & Co. rush ahead, then they may face even more backbench disgruntlement when Parliament does eventually return from recess.

Arguably the question most backbenches wanted answered was when would the proposed infrastructural projects be implemented?

Shinwell did not resume ministerial office when Labour returned to power in October 1964, but instead the new Prime Minister Harold Wilson appointed him Chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party, and during the 1964 - 6 Parliament he worked hard to drum up backbench support for the government, which had a very narrow majority.

«I just think that, as a backbench Member of Parliament, you've got to be there, particularly when we have a very weak opposition — to ask the questions that the Government needs to be scrutinised on before we embark on such a huge issue.

When I see the calibre of some of the people on the backbenches in parliament I am shocked by, and hold contempt for, their lack of gravitas.

Earlier this month, Osborne averted a Tory backbench rebellion in the Commons on the issue when the Treasury told key campaigners on the issue, including Robert Halfon, the MP for Harlow, that it was listening to concerns over fuel duty.

Mr Grieve also has the backing of 10 backbench Tory MPs, and with Labour's support could now defeat the Government in a vote when the Brexit debate resumes in the Commons.

Quoting an «insider», the paper reports that «Ed stopped short of offering his brother the job when David made it clear he wanted to stay on the backbenches».

As a key ally of the then Shadow Foreign Secretary Robin Cook, Cousins was still hopeful of a ministerial job when Labour won the election in 1997, but his hopes were dashed and instead he became an influential member of the backbench Treasury Select Committee.

Armstrong recalls: «The prime minister was very clear about that when Jeremy was a backbench MP.

Membership of the 1922 Committee is usually restricted to backbench MPs when the party is in government.

However, in the past few weeks, it has become clear some backbench Conservatives are concerned that punishing the other parties with heavy cuts could come back to haunt them when they are in opposition in future.

The report is published as Conservative Eurosceptics who are pressing David Cameron to give parliament a veto over all EU laws ran into trouble when it emerged that they mistakenly claimed to have the support of one of the most senior backbench Tory MPs.

Former minister David Laws said he was «very happy to be a backbench supporter» of the coalition, when he was asked if he would return to government.

«I may be on the backbenches when we return to parliament but this is about a bigger team of people whether I'm on the frontbench or the backbench.»

Mr Stewart, speaking in a backbench business debate, was raising the issue of pay for young barristers when fellow Tory Sir Edward intervened to shed more light on the topic

It'll matter a great deal when the leadership needs supporters in the press and on the backbenches.

A colleague told me recently he decided to become a scientist 30 years ago when a lecturer in Australian universities was paid about the same as a backbench member of Federal parliament.

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.

When that was overturned by a backbench rebellion, it was revealed that the funding was taken back by the Treasury.

At a press conference on February 6, 2012, Steve Woodworth, backbench Conservative MP for Kitchener Centre stated that he tabled a motion in Parliament calling for the creation of a special committee to study medical and scientific evidence about when a child can be considered a human being separate from the mother.