Sentences with phrase «which backbenchers»

A minister answering Parliamentary questions learns which backbenchers to fear.

No - one (who isn't involved in politics) gives a flying dingo about Labour's online strategy, or which backbencher is the biggest goon.

Not exact matches

A caucus of some 60 hard - line backbenchers is preparing to break openly with the government's declared strategy of trying to soften the blow of leaving the EU's single market by arranging a transitional period, during which which the U.K. would still pay into the EU's budget and not be able to sign its own trade deals.

I sat on a committee of Liberal backbenchers when the whole bank merger issue arose and when the banks themselves, the CEOs of the banks, wanted to expand into the U.S. and merge with a lot of the American banks, which would have caused us the same kind of turmoil that befell the Americans.

, which is not entirely fair, as most anyone who follows federal politics will know Mr. Wilks as the backbencher who was very briefly concerned about one of last year's budget bills.)

Tory backbenchers have shown their true colours in recent months, not least when a group of them released their Alternative Queen's Speech, which included plans to:

The reform has been labelled a «bedroom tax» by Labour, which has encouraged its backbenchers to bombard David Cameron over the issue in prime minister's questions.

Something backbenchers will instinctively shy away from is the possibility of making it easier for the public to work out which of them are not very good at their jobs.

If he was fishing for an underhand backbencher comment which sets off MPs in helpless laughter, it worked.

That is the margin needed for the Conservatives to win the overall majority which one backbencher predicted would miraculously materialise.

11:03 - John Denham is conducting a quite forensic breakdown of the distrust which exists between Tory backbenchers and the prime minister.

Labour backbencher Steve Rotherham called for the original inquest, which concluded on the advice of its pathologist that it need not consider what occurred after 15:15 on the day, to be quashed.

Nick Clegg railed against Conservative backbenchers this morning, in a speech which saw him demand that David Cameron stop buckling to their demands and «get back to governing».

The current endeavor by Tory backbenchers to repeal the Act is based on a simple calculation — most forecasts predict that the 2015 general elections will result in another hung Parliament, in which the joint seat share of the two dominant parties, Labour and the Conservatives, will be eroded even further.

In fact it was left to Labour backbencher and Lewisham MP Heidi Alexander to raise the issue, in which was the best question of the whole session.

In a bid to head off a rebellion, Tory whips pushed backbenchers to back compromise amendments tabled by Stephen Phillips, which would force the home secretary to assess whether EU immigration is excessive and the likely effects of new countries joining the EU.

She faced the nightmare of negotiating a Brexit deal with the European Union while being unable to face down either the hard - Brexit faction in her own cabinet or the powerful Remain faction in parliament, which included some Conservative backbenchers.

Sixteen Lib Dem backbenchers rebelled in Yeo's decarbonisation amendment, which though defeated reduced the coalition's majority to 23.

It is this section which is mostly commonly used by prisoners in court cases which have incensed Conservative backbenchers and the tabloid press.

For a leader who was whispered about by his own backbenchers it is the last part of that statement which will be the most reassuring.

The eurosceptic party, which has 11 MEPs but no MPs in the Commons, is looking to capitalise after nearly half of David Cameron's backbenchers rebelled against his party on Europe.

However, minsters are yet to formally set the wheels in motion and in the mean time it is an issue which has been causing massive dissent throughout the Conservative parliamentary party, even among usually loyal backbenchers.

One of the innovations in this new Parliament is the creation of a BackBench Business Committee which is gaining the power from the Establishment to determine the backbencher - initiated business in the Commons chamber and Westminster Hall.

Eurosceptic Tory backbenchers insist the treaty, which would allow 25 of the 27 EU member states to use EU institutions, buildings and enforcement mechanisms, contravenes EU law.

12:26 - An effective attack from a Tory backbencher linking the need for Post Office privatisation to the EU postal legislation, which forced Royal Mail to divest itself of its most profitable business.

Conservative backbencher Harriett Baldwin's private member's bill sought to force all future legislation to state which parts of the UK it applied to.

Most telling of all was the lack of hostility from Tory backbenchers, which is significant and noteworthy after what has been a terrible few weeks for the prime minister.

Visibly confident, jocular and at ease, Eagle read out quotes from disgruntled Tory backbenchers including London mayoral candidate Zac Goldsmith, in a performance which was reminiscent of the former era of PMQs, before Corbyn was elected.

She could be the loyal backbencher and choose an issue which the government was keen on.

Many Tory backbenchers have contemplated a third possibility, in which the Lib Dems drop down to a «confidence and supply» arrangement in which they allow the Conservatives to remain in power as a minority government for the 12 months before May 2015.

• Dozens of Conservative MPs are also backing an amendment tabled by the Conservative backbencher Nigel Mills which would reintroduce the transitional controls on immigrants from Bulgaria and Romania that were lifted on 1 January.

«Parliament means party, and party means whip — which, to uphold the coherence of party, backbenchers must usually follow.

If the voting age is to be lowered, it should come about as a result of general acceptance in society, a campaign from backbenchers in Parliament, and / or being prominently placed in the manifesto of a winning party - all of which would follow a period of serious consideration of the issue.

Despite the terse statement in the coalition agreement that «arrangements will be made to enable Liberal Democrat MPs to abstain in any vote» on proposals from Browne with which they disagree, numerous backbenchers - including the former leader Menzies Campbell - have let it be known that they plan to rebel if the party performs a U-turn in government on fees.

Two backbenchers have submitted a motion of no confidence in Mr Corbyn which, if accepted for debate, would lead to secret ballot on Tuesday.

Several prominent members of Labour's 2015 intake, including shadow ministers, will support the move, which was tabled yesterday by Margaret Hodge and Ann Coffey and has already been backed by several backbenchers.

Speaking at a tetchy meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party, in which MPs lined up to denounce Harman, the backbencher Michael Connarty asked the deputy leader to «examine her conscience».

Other Labour backbenchers argue that in times of financial difficulty, shoppers are quick to begin saving money by shopping around and targeting sales, which pushes down costs.

A day after David Cameron bounced through a vote to end a long - standing tradition by which Tory backbenchers meet each week, the consensus is that this will come back to bite him.

Nadine Dorries, a Tory backbencher who is starting to gain a reputation for adopting Christian positions on moral issues, introduced the ten minute rule bill, which would «require schools to provide certain additional sex education to girls aged between 13 and 16» and «to provide that such education must include information and advice on the benefits of abstinence from sexual activity».

Tory backbenchers are risking resuscitating the party's «nasty» tag today, as they put the finishing touches on a package of policy measures which includes harsh conditions on housing benefit for teenage mothers.

The meeting came hours after Labour rebel Frank Field apologised in the Commons for personally attacking Gordon Brown, amid concessions from the prime minister which prompted widespread relief from Labour backbenchers.

Meanwhile, Caroline Spelman is thought to be on the way out of the environment portfolio (her biggest achievement: the forestry fiasco which prompted the coalition's first major U-turn); David Jones, a relatively obscure north Wales backbencher, is thought to be Cheryl Gillan's replacement at the Wales Office; and Jeremy Hunt may be on the move from the culture job (stress the maybe).

Labour backbencher Dan Jarvis today laid out his vision for the future of Britain's economy in a speech which mentioned Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and Ed Miliband — but contained no references to Jeremy Corbyn.

The plans, which are likely to result in detailed proposals to ban drink sales below either 40p or 50p a unit, will likely be criticised by libertarians and Tory backbenchers as symptomatic of the «nanny - statism» Mr Cameron criticised in opposition.

Ed Miliband has bent over backwards to find a position which reassures critical voters without compromising his progressive principles, but when it comes to Labour's election leaflets they might as well have been written by Tory backbenchers.

However, despite these painstaking efforts the Labour party and Conservative backbenchers united to block any further progress, preventing government from securing a timetable motion without which the Bill effectively becomes impossible to deliver.

Mr Bercow should build on this work and leave a legacy which will survive the end of coalition government and give backbenchers enduring influence when the House falls back into the control of a single party.

And for Conservative backbenchers, even more obscure ones than Clarke, these contests provide a delightful period in which their opinions actually matter.

The sacking of the «pale, male and stale»: what matters is not whether Number Ten is briefing that line (which it presumably has more sense than to do), but whether the average Tory backbencher — who is certainly pale and male; I will pass on the last word — believes that this is what Cameron thinks of him.