| All I ask now is that I be allowed to continue my constituency and Parliamentary work and responsibilities as a backbencher. |
|
| Associating the stolid backbencher with a tax haven based in an exotic Caribbean location requires quite a feat of imagination. |
|
| And as a backbencher you will need to allow your successors to get on with that task without undue interference. |
|
| That said, a long-serving backbencher who never asks the government anything is probably a strong hint that they are a talentless time-server. |
|
| Ideas that raced through his head, as a backbencher, became concrete legislation once he held the Ministerial reins. |
|
| I was pleased to hear a Liberal backbencher earlier make a similar comment. |
|
| As a mere backbencher I'm not privy to negotiations that go on. |
|
| This kind of spacious accommodation stands in stark contrast to the average backbencher, who had no office at all at this time. |
|
| The member, a backbencher, has experienced it firsthand with the introduction of this bill which went through committee to have it made votable. |
|
| I ask that every Liberal backbencher look at the cruelty to animals legislation and the firearm legislation. |
|
| By convention, the committee is always chaired by a senior opposition backbencher, often a former minister. |
|
| Mr. Preston Manning: An hon. backbencher across the way mentioned the word taxes. |
|
| At the time this film was made, Sir Sam Hughes was once again an ordinary backbencher. |
|
| Hughes spent the next five years, the last years of his life, as a backbencher. |
|
| I hope he is not just a backbencher who is being led around by the nose with these kinds of ridiculous arguments. |
|
| In truth, Gingrich was a backbencher during the Reagan years, lobbing bombshells at the White House in addition to Democrats. |
|
| I can't wait for him to set foot in parliament as a backbencher where he is going to be face to face with the people he always arrogantly insults. |
|
| The scientists here are being warned not to be disappointed if they don't get to see high ranking politicians, because today's backbencher is tomorrows cabinet member. |
|
| While the Committee was looking at the strange electoral role practices of the family of the somnolent Queensland backbencher, he seemed to have something different to say. |
|
| The Coalition backbencher Warren Entsch, who has been talking with colleagues on holding conscience vote, said Shorten could be sabotaging the chances for marriage equality by rushing the bill. |
|
|
|
| If your MP is a backbencher or a member of the opposition, they are less likely to influence Cabinet. However, they still influence private members' bills and raise questions in the House. |
|
| It is unusual for a government backbencher to, in such a forceful way, outline the failings and the inadequacies of his own government and his own minister on this file in particular. |
|
| I did not meet a single Liberal backbencher in those days who supported the nomination of Bryce Mackasey, who by the way was and is a friend of mine and a very honourable gentleman. |
|
| However I was amazed and rather amused that the Prime Minister, as a backbencher at the time sitting with me in the back row a decade and a half ago, wrote the red book. |
|
| Veteran backbencher Tam Dalyell spoke of fears the civil service would be politicised along US lines. |
|
| The former Prime Minister Julia Gillard walks into the chamber for the first time as a backbencher to listen to Rob Oakeshott's valedictory speech in Parliament House. |
|
| She was one of those in the Liberal Party at the time, a backbencher at the time, who publicly wept because she was forced by the Prime Minister of Canada to vote against that package. |
|
| At a time of mass political rebellion and a flurry of pharisaic independent MPs, Edmund Burke seems an ideal role model: a backbencher for all ages. |
|
| For my part, I will readily say that, even though it is not for me, a simple backbencher, to decide, I will have no qualms asking the leader of my party, the member for Laurier-Sainte-Marie, to allow a free vote. |
|
| The Liberals lost the 1886 election, and Asquith joined the House of Commons as an opposition backbencher. |
|
| If the first question is asked by a government backbencher, the Leader of the Opposition is the second MP to ask questions. |
|
| Only five backbencher MLAs attended the meeting. |
|
| A Liberal backbencher is pressuring the industry minister to prove he is not under the influence of companies funding his underground former leadership campaign. |
|
| According to Sydney Morning Herald, NSW backbencher David Coleman, who has a law degree, is understood to be drafting the alternative proposal. |
|
| It is rather disingenuous to not have a standard that applies to them and their statements and yet suggest that a backbencher on the government side is subject to some standard of their creation. |
|
| This has been tabled by the backbencher Stephen Phillips and is being supported by Labour. |
|
| As soon as a minister, who used to be a backbencher, established special ties with someone to whom he then gave an advantage, I believe that that minister has placed himself in a conflict of interest. |
|
| They rarely work for small fry like an ordinary backbencher. |
|
| He was met in debate by the foreign affairs minister who interestingly split his time with a backbencher from Durham, which I guess says something about how seriously the Liberals took our motion. |
|
| A question was asked in the House yesterday by a Conservative backbencher who was congratulating the Minister of International Trade on his announcement that Canada has now concluded a free trade agreement with Peru. |
|
|
|
| In fact, even though Bill C-257, was defeated, a Liberal backbencher is now introducing yet another private member's bill calling on the ban of replacement workers. |
|
| But I would like to bring you back to that period, and I am comfortable in doing so because I was one of the most vocal critics when I was then a backbencher. |
|
| If he can convince me that every backbencher over there who votes with the government on command is fully apprised of all the issues, then maybe his argument would have a little more strength. |
|
| Right-wing backbencher Frank Field called for deselected MPs to stand as independents and said many former colleagues would back them for re-election. |
|
| It would have to be taken up by a Tory backbencher to get the plan considered in Parliament, but opposition from Labour and the Lib Dems would prevent it making progress. |
|
