Sentences with phrase «with backbench»

With the race for the Tory crown expected to move up a gear this week, with the backbench 1922 committee set to outline the time table for the contest, allies of Chancellor George Osborne moved to dismiss claims he was attempting to change party rules in a bid to damage Mr Johnson's chances.

Until 2016 she had a poor reputation with her backbench colleagues.

You have to give politicians some reason for making a decision which is valid, even if it is unpopular with backbench colleagues or the press.

Sacking Damian Green will have left Theresa May more isolated in cabinet but more popular with backbench MPs and members, senior party figures have said.

The row follows Mr Brown's own clash with backbench MPs over the abolition of the 10p tax rate, announced in last year's Budget.

The heckling from both Labour and Conservative MPs was so intense that Speaker John Bercow had to plead with the backbenches to stop their «organised barracking».

With splits over the European referendum to contend with, Mr Cameron may simply have decided it was not worth a fierce fight with the backbenches.

Not exact matches

Tyrie, a backbench Tory with an imposing accent and a deeply self - satisfied manner laughed dismissively.

With those eight well - chosen words, a heretofore largely anonymous 48 - year - old backbench Conservative MP named Brent Rathgeber accomplished many things.

And the quality of our democratic system will be weaker tomorrow with the loss of these nine opposition MLAs into the government backbenches.

Some backbench Liberal MPs have been pushing for Canada to adopt a similar approach as a way to deal with the ongoing opioid crisis.

She slowly expanded the cabinet with talent identified from the MLA backbenches of the new government caucus and since then many cabinet ministers have grown into their roles quite comfortably.

Meanwhile, many backbench House members were unwilling to go along with any deal that only made small cuts in spending.

Premier's Political Editor Martyn Eden says the EDM is used by backbench MPs to keep pressure and scrutiny on the government to follow through with promises and proposals.

This is not a narrative memoir with the usual «I was born at an early age» and a list of tedious political meetings and minor backbench and then ministerial successes.

Backbench mutterings about the PM's cold - fish aloofness are nothing new, but it taps into a deeper worry: if Cameron can't be bothered to shoot the breeze with local MPs, is he really connecting with hard - pressed families?

Then there's another Commons debate, probably later that week on Thursday 29 October, on a backbench motion proposed by Labour's welfare guru and ex-minister Frank Field with all party backing.

13:55 - In the Commons those backbench speeches are continuing apace, but I can't cope with any more of them.

Holding his backbenchers in check on Europe has been ever more difficult to achieve, however, given the disproportionate number of hard - line Eurosceptics among the 2010 intake of Conservative MPs and the increasing discontent on the Conservative backbenches with the constraints of being in a coalition with the Liberal Democrats.

With or without political will, the continued discomfort with wind farms suggests more community action - and backbench pressure - could be on the With or without political will, the continued discomfort with wind farms suggests more community action - and backbench pressure - could be on the with wind farms suggests more community action - and backbench pressure - could be on the way.

Nick Clegg and David Cameron had been wrestling each other for months over House of Lords reform, with the Liberal Democrat leader very publicly pulling the plug on his pet project in August 2012 after the prime minister admitted he would not be able to guarantee the support of his backbenches for the far - reaching reform.

«There is also the question, with all the new powers coming to the Scottish Parliament, MSPs have a lot more to do than backbench MPs from Scotland do now.

Meanwhile, backbench Labour MP John Mann attacked the policy shift, saying it left Labour with a «glaring» contradictory economic policy.

However with a majority of 12, some tricky Brexit issues still to come and some spurned ministers on the backbenches, I'm not sure Theresa May's honeymoon will last much longer than August.

So as a momentous week draws to a close, Theresa has a radically reshaped Cabinet facing some really tough challenges but with some unhappy former members on the backbench.

The first secretary of state follows Michael Fallon and Priti Patel to the backbenches, leaving Theresa May with an ever shrinking pool from which to draw ministerial talent.

The 47 Labour MPs who voted against ranged from backbench MPs like Audrey Wise, Ken Livingstone and Diane Abbott, together with Roger Berry, Ann Clwyd and Gwyneth Dunwoody, through to five holders of office, who consequently either resigned or were sacked from their posts (Alice Mahon, Malcolm Chisholm, Gordon Prentice, Michael Clapham and Neil Gerrard).

Mr Blair is facing a backbench revolt over the plans, which critics claim will bring in selection by the back door, and Mr Cameron capitalised on this by listing among the proposals that the Tories agree with, a new power for schools to bring back selection.

After voicing their concerns with the outcome of the summit, backbench Lib Dem MPs and peers are thought to have put forward proposals towards building a fresh coalition approach to the new two - tier Europe.

With his slim majority, I suspect the Prime Minister will be given a near - permanent headache by Peter Bone and the Tory backbench awkward squad in the run - up to that referendum.

The party's foreign affairs backbench committee met with Europe minister David Lidington yesterday to vent their frustrations with the outcome of last week's summit, which many Lib Dems fear will be a diplomatic and economic disaster for Britain.

Because, despite Miliband's exemplary claim to economic superiority — he was giving economics lectures to students while Cameron was on the opposition backbenches — his association with the last government makes him seem at least partly responsible for getting us into this mess in the first place.

I think it's fair to conclude that the scepticism about meddling with the composition of the second chamber exhibited yesterday from the Tory backbenches is representative of widespread opposition within the parliamentary party.

The Tory leadership has faced a voluble and increasingly muscular backbench and activist base over issues including Britain's relationship with the EU and government planning reforms.

This was surprising because there was some consternation felt by some sections of the backbenches about the proposals, with the suspicion that the period was simply softening the public up for a full scrapping of Sunday trading laws.

Now, the Guardian's Andrew Sparrow is reporting that backbench amendments with cross-party support are being tabled for the debate on Harriet Harman's motion to set up the committee, which will take place on Monday.

This powerful backbench committee meets weekly with the Prime Minister to communicate the mood of backbench Labour MP's to the Party leadership.

Heseltine remained on the backbenches until, in 1990, with Thatcher apparently losing popularity among the public and her own party, he launched a leadership bid.

Instead of some tawdry trick to buy off backbench critics with the Balkanisation of Parliament and the purge of Welsh, Scottish and Irish influence.

Mr Gove, who frequently clashed with the new Prime Minister, returns to the backbenches after six years in Government as Education Secretary, Chief Whip and most recently Justice Secretary.

Voting for two of the three seats representing backbench MPs and all MEPs (Margaret Beckett was elected unopposed under gender balance requirements) put chalenger John Healey miles ahead on 216, with Steve Rotherham edging Dennis Skinner out by 133 to 121.

I do find it astonishing that 11 years into a failed Labour Government, Labour is regularly able to put up backbench MPs who openly hate the Tories with a passion - people like McShane, Kaufman, Ruane, Pound and Thornberry.

After a meeting at Chequers between the Prime Minister and backbench MPs, it emerged that the Tories plan to press ahead with what were said to be «robust proposals» to give English MPs control over English laws.

He said he had sought to engage with ministers to find a compromise over several weeks, but without success: «The blunt reality is, and I'm sorry to have to say this to the house, I've been left in the lurch, as a backbench member trying to improve this legislation.»

But on Radio 4's The World at One, Smith said Miliband had been «trying to stir up trouble» in writing the article and ought to get on with his job, adding that if he was sacked he would return to being a «nonentity» on the backbenches.

In an interview with Channel 4 News, the former Home Office minister added that there was «unease» on the backbenches over the Gaza conflict and said that one «senior Conservative» backencher had been «on the phone in tears».

Through a largely chronological history of Britain's relationship with the European project, Cato the Younger tells of not only the guilt of the fifteen men and women named above, but also of the «supporting cast» that includes the likes of Mr James Goldsmith, Mr George Osborne, the Barclay Brothers, Sir Edward Heath, Michael Gove and a range of backbench Conservative MPs.

Lindsay Hoyle did a good job presiding over a quiet - ish PMQs - and while some on twitter have been contrasting his approach to John Bercow's, he didn't have to deal with any serious outbreak of disorder, or any major bouts of backbench ranting.

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.»

About twelve of them said yes, and the European Research Group was founded under the chairmanship of Michael Spicer, who would go on to chair the 1922 Committee of backbench Conservative MPs, before stepping down as an MP in 2010 after being caught in the 2009 expenses scandal paying for maintenance of his helipad with public money.