Sentences with phrase «with backbenchers»

He is now spending far more time negotiating with his backbenchers to save his job than negotiating with European leaders to secure the changes that Europe needs.

Ditching policies now — even those unpopular with backbenchers — will make Cameron look even weaker.

Mr Cameron said that he would do more to engage with his backbenchers in future.

Mr Cameron, who looked deeply uncomfortable throughout the session, told Mr Miliband: «I'll deal with my backbenchers, you deal with yours.»

But as prime minister, he can no longer afford to make deals with his backbenchers at the expense of making decisions in the national interest.»

David Cameron and his whips can therefore be guaranteed a post-victory honeymoon with his backbenchers.

Next Monday the prime minister will come face to face with those backbenchers — well, sort of — when he answers their questions at the despatch box.

If instead you have to persuade several parties that have to decide together and consult with their backbenchers to keep the whole thing rolling, you have to make sure that safeguards are in place — and you have to be more careful.

It emerged this evening that another Lib Dem minister, Paul Burstow, had been paired with backbencher Adrian Sanders in order to go ahead with a scheduled visit to health facilities in his Torbay constituency tomorrow.

Alas, it is not the first time that Cameron has indicated he does not wish to shoot the EU breeze with the backbencher.

But he angered some at the first hurdle by sacking chief whip Rosie Winterton and replacing her with backbencher and former whip Nick Brown.

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.

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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.

He, and backbenchers on the opposition side, would be free to stand up every so often and ask a question of the government about some matter of particular concern to him or his constituents — a question that had not been vetted by anyone with any authority over him.

Backbencher Andrew Laming feels the second verse needs to be packed with more Australian values.

Eastleigh may not be one of the areas where the Lib Dems are struggling, however, with the party doing all it can to cling on to a seat Tory backbenchers are desperate to take.

The backbencher, along with husband Andrew Mackay, claimed for thousands for their family home, while he claimed for their London property, meaning the taxpayer paid for all their accommodation.

«Look, there's lots of people with good talents out there,» Conservative backbencher Nick de Bois said.

His entire time in power has been dominated by trying to make accommodation with other forces: from the Lib Dems, to Ukip, to his own backbenchers.

«Any rebel backbencher with a cause» has been given assurances in exchange for their support,» she continued.

Conservative MPs have taken to cheering their backbenchers with an enthusiasm more usually reserved for their party leader.

The coalition's interest in a Labour backbencher's proposals on early intervention faces the acid test - with a demand for # 10 million.

Last night David Cameron was getting chummy with his unruly backbenchers by serving them burgers and hot dogs in Downing Street's Rose Garden.

His failure to remember the name of the guy he'd had dinner with led to Tory backbenchers yelling «Who's Bill?

Perhaps the title is somewhat misleading as Morrison was an early starter with his political career, being a minister in 1929 when Clement Attlee was still a backbencher.

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.

When Tory backbenchers, who despise him with a vitriol usually reserved for their party leader, did let him speak he laid into «the truly colossal failure of the chancellor's plan».

Rebellious Conservative backbenchers are showing more discipline, not least because of his efforts to reach out to them with more upbeat polling details.

Currently crossbench peer Lord Hylton, who sports a long white Santa style beard, is competing at the top of the poll with Labour backbencher Ian Murray who only stopped shaving in the summer.

And despite the noisy tory backbenchers, the complicity of Nick Clegg and the invisibility of Ed Miliband, there are plenty of people in the UK who welcome being in the EU, able to travel, and work, and set up businesses, trade freely, influence EU foreign policy and climate change policies — who will not want the UK to be a small cut off island on the edge of the continent, with no influence in Europe let alone the wider world.

The government also appears to have decided that it will not be able to proceed with this reform on any kind of cross-party basis, and so is keen to test out the conviction that the procedural reforms associated with EVEL will be employed on sufficiently few occasions that they may slip from political consciousness, while also looking substantive enough to satisfy the aspirations of its backbenchers.

Mr. Speaker, in my debut appearance in this august House, my backbencher friends across the aisle traded Bible quotations with me, as I invoked the miracle of Jesus feeding the 5,000 with five loaves of bread and three fish (Mathew 13), they responded with Philipines 4:19 «And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of His glory in Christ Jesus.»

Annually, backbenchers of all parties have the bleak choice — suffer the penances of attendance or play truant and catch up with serious constituency work.

Having worked in a number of think tanks down the years, I always found that backbenchers were the least interested in our work, while we were on first name terms with the most senior politicians - people who recognised the power of (new) ideas.

One's growing sense that the leader's smile is fake: de jure coalition with a de facto sense that these - are - not - my - people, by backbenchers, activists, members and supporters of both parties.

But Corbyn's response to the Salisbury poisoning proved too much with his own backbenchers condemning is equivocation.

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.

The prime minister's defense cut little ice, particularly with Mr. Miliband, the Labour leader, who called it «a catastrophic error of judgment» and brought hoots of approval from Labour backbenchers when he said of Mr. Cameron, «He just doesn't get it, Mr. Speaker.»

If Labour goes ahead with its plan to argue for more time and oppose the government motion, and if three dozen Tory and Liberal Democrat backbenchers join forces, then, with the support of at least some of the minor parties, a government defeat or a pyrrhic win is far from impossible.

It would allow a single malcontent who shouts out «object» to trigger a vote — and, crucially, give Tory backbenchers unhappy with Bercow the chance to find an alternative who could actually beat the Speaker.

His cronies, those toadying government backbenchers happy to help their leader with a planted question, had raised the question of the controversial benefit cap.

The Lib Dems are eminently placable opponents of an in / out referendum on the EU: they know Cameron's backbenchers won't accept it being dropped, and besides, ruling out the public having a say on Europe isn't such a good look for a party with the word «Democrat» in their name.

As the row rumbled on, Tory backbencher Henry Smith came up with a solution.

In the meantime, of course, she has to deal with the restlessness both of her EU counterparts and backbenchers.

Many MPs had backed an early day motion by Graham Allen demanding a recall of parliament, with prominent backbenchers like Douglas Carswell, David Davis, Graham Stuart and Phillip Davies lending their support.

The main loser of the evening was David Cameron, whose authority with his already rebellious backbenchers will be further dented by a poor performance in one of his party's key target seats.

The case for the prosecution is that Cameron's authority is ebbing away, more and more of his backbenchers reckon it is fine to defy his wishes, and he handled the question of Lords reform with atrocious incompetence.

On Wednesday afternoon, Tory backbencher, regular ConHome contributor and MP for the City of London, Mark Field, secured a debate in Westminster Hall with the title «Rebalancing the UK Economy».

Backbenchers will request a meeting with Mandelson, hoping to persuade him of the political arguments against a third runway, and remind him of the number of Labour MPs in marginal constituencies in its vicinity who would suffer at the ballot box.