Good afternoon and welcome to our live coverage of First Minister's Questions on Tuesday 23 June. John Swinney will face ...
A long campaign to wrest control of the parliamentary agenda from government triumphed today when MPs voted overwhelmingly to establish an elected backbench committee to take responsibility for tracts ...
Show of strength in parliamentary Labour party makes clear they will fight for influence and warns Corbyn not to keep challenging existing policies Labour moderates have captured most of the key ...
In British-style parliamentary systems, a backbencher is a member of parliament who doesn’t hold government office and isn’t a spokesperson of the opposition. They’re essentially a rank and file ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Conservative MPs can trigger a leadership ballot through the 1922 backbench committee. This group, open to all ...
As far as the UK government is concerned, its backbenchers are “the most important Members in the House [of Commons]”. This simple insight, from a classic 1976 article by the political scientist ...
The 15th term of Parliament, comprising MPs elected at the May 3 polls, opens on Sept 5. - Photo: ST file SINGAPORE: A fresh slate of 12 MPs will head the PAP’s backbench committees that scrutinise ...
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