Sentences with phrase «wing backbencher»

Ed Balls, the shadow education secretary, is being backed by the Communication Workers Union, and Diane Abbott, the Left - wing backbencher, by the Transport Salaried Staffs Association.

Voting gets under way in the Labour leadership election, as David Miliband becomes the latest senior Labour figure to warn of the dangers of electing as leader the left - wing backbencher, Jeremy Corbyn.

Left - wing backbencher Michael Meacher has said he still intends to fight chancellor Gordon Brown for the Labour leadership, stressing that the party needs a «change of direction».

After all, two years ago relatively few people knew about a certain veteran left - wing backbencher from Islington.

Liz Kendall, the shadow Care Minister who is seen as the Blairite candidate, came second on 25 per cent, with Yvette Cooper, the shadow Home Secretary, on 20 per cent and Jeremy Corbyn, a left - wing backbencher, on 18 per cent.

He was an obscure left - wing backbencher going up against some of the Labour leadership's leading lights; when the race began, oddsmakers gave him a 100 to one shot at victory.

The other candidates were left - wing backbencher Diane Abbott, Shadow Education Secretary Ed Balls, Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham and Miliband's elder brother, Shadow Foreign Secretary David Miliband.

A sprinkling of high profile MPs have joined the group, including former defence secretary Dr Liam Fox, who is increasingly seen as a figurehead for right - wing backbenchers.

There certainly was concern about the possible actions of two right - wing backbenchers to further undermine Ed Miliband's leadership, and the reshuffle was designed to strengthen the small band -LSB-...]

The former GP ran against David Cameron for the leadership of the party and some analysts believe he could become a figurehead for right - wing backbenchers» disillusion with the coalition.

Not exact matches

Osborne now has six weeks to prepare for this year's Budget and Tory backbenchers are increasingly keen to demand the implementation of right - wing economic policies to stimulate growth.

As soon as you do, Tory backbenchers and the right - wing tabloids will come for you.

CGT had caused consternation among right - wing Tory backbenchers, who said it discouraged entrepreneurism and achievement.

The traditional attack came, from the right - wing tabloids and Tory backbenchers.

Instead, Chris Grayling wants to bury his head in the sand and ignore it, probably because it doesn't fit his right - wing agenda of throwing red meat to his restless backbenchers.

The tax allowance also appeared in last week's «alternative Queen's Speech», a collection of dozens of firmly right - wing bills put forward by a small group of Conservative backbenchers as an attempt to drag the government towards a more classically Tory position.

Many Tory backbenchers were extremely suspicious of Mr Hilton's advice to the prime minister, believing him partly responsible for Mr Cameron's resistance to right wing messages.

Lib Dem conference 2: Clegg accuses Tory backbenchers of having a «turbo - charged» right wing agenda

With attacks on employee rights, union strikes, public sector pay, green industry and foreign aid and praise for Thatcher's right to buy, this is all becoming a satisfying event for right - wing Tory backbenchers.

It would get rid of the troublesome Tory backbenchers on the party's extreme and moderate wings who are increasingly bullish about that small majority of hers.

They will be relieved and encouraged by Clegg's hardening line against Tory backbenchers, and their «turbo - charged right - wing agenda».

But he criticised David Cameron for going out of his way to satisfy right - wing Tory backbenchers and newspaper editors.

Right - wing Tory backbenchers will be grimly satisfied at that news as they listen over their cornflakes this morning.

On Newsnight, right - wing Tory backbencher Peter Bone just told Baroness Warsi that it's «the beginning of the end of the coalition».

In doing so, Cameron will appeal to both the traditional wing of his parliamentary party and the country at large, although some are bound to interpret this approach as a lurch to the right, or more red meat for the PM's unruly backbenchers.

That means the right - wing Tory backbenchers will become some of the most powerful people in the country.

A Yes vote in next month's referendum would greatly accelerate the secession of the already existing, and rapidly growing, right - wing party nominally still comprised of Conservative backbenchers.

I actually think the coalition being dissolved by a 1922 - style rebellion of right - wing Tory backbenchers is a more likely end to the coalition than it simply reaching a mutually satisfactory conclusion in June 2015.)

But the inexperienced Europhile Alexander, unlike Laws, has little credibility in the eyes of restless, right - wing Tory backbenchers.

Some Labour backbenchers regard Momentum as a party within a party, organising its members to put pressure on MPs from other wings of the party to fall in behind Corbyn's line on certain issues, such as rejecting military action in Syria.

His aides said he was being urged to stand by MPs from all wings of the party including Eric Joyce, the former ministerial aide, and backbenchers including John Robertson, Helen Jones and Dave Anderson.