He won't be a backbencher, even on his first day.
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During his first term, Mr. Collins was a little-known backbencher.
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However, there was no ministerial role for Abbott, currently a backbencher.
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Most attendees, like Hunter, were backbencher lawmakers who have already endorsed Trump.
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From freshman backbencher to a driving force in the Russia–Trump investigation, Rep.
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Resignation by any backbencher would force Turnbull into attempting to form a minority government.
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What really got me about Pence was that he wasn't just a random backbencher.
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So thin, in fact, that it chose a backbencher with no resume for its nomination.
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Four years ago, the political independent was perceived as a busy but relatively inconsequential backbencher.
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In December the president replaced a respected finance minister with an unknown backbencher, spooking the markets.
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As for that election, one senior backbencher suggests voters could be left waiting until the spring.
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When he was a right-wing congressional backbencher, his fulminations against "os corruptos" helped make him famous.
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The prospect of a chunk of Tory MPs breaking off en masse is remote, says one backbencher.
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Even with this milquetoast approach from a relative backbencher, Ryan won about a third of the caucus.
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As a backbencher, he spoke eloquently of his sympathy for, and rejection of, the Scottish independence movement.
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In December 2015, Zuma dismissed respected finance minister Nhlanhla Nene and replaced him with a little-known backbencher.
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In December 2015, he dropped respected finance minister Nlanhla Nene in December 2015 with a little-known backbencher.
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And as a lifetime Senate backbencher, he was not in danger of losing a chairmanship or leadership position.
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The idea for the company dates back to 2011, when Mr Corbyn was still a happily obscure backbencher.
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Two months later Nhlanhla Nene, the widely respected finance minister, was fired and replaced by an unimpressive backbencher.
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Life as a young upstart, or a long reputation as a rebel backbencher, is no qualification for government.
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Zuma fired finance minister Nhlanhla Nene in December 2015, replacing him with unknown parliamentary backbencher Des van Rooyen.
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Mr Johnson is likely to be much more troublesome as an unhappy backbencher than he was as foreign secretary.
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An attempt to deselect Mr Corbyn when he was a rebellious backbencher was supposedly kiboshed at Tony Blair's behest.
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Now, he says he has little interest in crossing the Capitol and becoming a Senate backbencher with little influence.
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In December 2015 Mr Zuma fired the respected Nhlanhla Nene as finance minister, replacing him with an inexperienced, unknown backbencher.
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Jacob Rees-Mogg, a Tory backbencher, complained last year that Britons were "doing more than our fair share" on aid.
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Charrandas Persaud, the Indo-Guyanese backbencher who wiped out the government's one-seat majority by switching sides, gave no warning.
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One Tory backbencher, Jacob Rees-Mogg, predicted sadly that all MPs would have to publish their tax returns before long.
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Mr Nene was sacked in December and replaced by an unknown backbencher, who was himself fired a few days later.
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When the politician is not some obscure backbencher but the president of the Burundian Senate, the world should be alarmed.
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The high-profile backbencher becomes the third MP to officially enter the contest, along with Emily Thornberry and Clive Lewis.
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Mr. Bentley, a dermatologist, was a legislative backbencher until he stunned Alabama with his successful campaign for governor in 2010.
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Tory backbencher Geoff Smith (apparently a big raver in his youth) looked caught in the grips of a manic, delirious happiness.
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Mr Anwar says he plans to remain a backbencher, staying out of the cabinet until Dr Mahathir hands over the reins.
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He was an obscure backbencher, though, never once included in an annual ranking of the country's top 100 right-wing thinkers.
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When it came to social reform, in fact, Mr. Abse proved to be Britain's most influential backbencher of the past century.
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A Conservative backbencher asked the Prime Minister to condemn anti-Semitism in the U.K. It was a setup to attack Corbyn.
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As a backbencher, Mr. Corbyn shared platforms with the likes of Raed Salah, a convicted anti-Semite, and he praised Hamas.
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It's astonishing that a Democratic backbencher could get this much attention and get so famous at the beginning of her first term.
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Margaret Hodge, a long-serving and respected backbencher with a Jewish background, has labelled Mr Corbyn a "racist" and an "anti-Semite".
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More or less a backbencher for those eight years, he went into the seven-candidate Republican primary in 2010 as an underdog.
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Emma Reynolds, an energetic pro-European backbencher, promises that, after the local elections, the party will focus more intensively on the issue.
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Gigaba has been Home Affairs Minister, while Buthelezi did not hold a position in the cabinet and was a backbencher in parliament.
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However, he also had many critics and none more so than the Conservative backbencher and long term thorn in his side, Andrew Bridgen.
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One GOP member who expressed his disdain for D.C. with extremely harsh words was a then-obscure backbencher named Tom Delay, of Texas.
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Such measures helped to detoxify the party among young and metropolitan voters, says Nick Boles, a Conservative backbencher and a minister under Mr Cameron.
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In December, he fired respected finance minister Nhlanhla Nene and replaced him with an unknown backbencher, triggering a dramatic sell-off in the rand.
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The caucus, which had become majority black and held fewer than 70 of the 180 seats in the House, turned to a young backbencher.
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But careful canvassing by Steve Baker, a Eurosceptic backbencher, pushed them up to over 140, including the critical duo of Mr Gove and Mr Johnson.
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Baker's predecessor in the job was Jacob Rees-Mogg, a tall, preternaturally posh former backbencher who is now the Leader of the House of Commons.
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Jacob Rees-Mogg, a backbencher who is being touted as a future leader by the party's kamikaze wing, might have been frozen in the 1850s.
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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has expressed willingness to head up a "caretaker" cross-party government, while veteran Conservative backbencher Ken Clarke has also been touted.
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Nene served as South Africa's finance minister from May 2014 to December 2015 until he was fired by Zuma and replaced by an unknown backbencher.
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He began the 633 Democratic presidential primary as a relative unknown, a Senate backbencher generally viewed -- even by himself -- as an outsider inside the Washington beltway.
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Chris Philp, a Tory backbencher, has called for strikes in industries such as transport to be legal only if at least 50% of services are maintained.
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Mr Zuma had appointed Mr van Rooyen—at the time an unknown backbencher, but with connections to the Guptas—after sacking a well-respected finance minister.
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Late last year, Zuma threw South Africa's currency into a tailspin when he abruptly fired his respected finance minister and replaced him with a party backbencher.
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Stephen Phillips, a Tory backbencher who voted Leave, said it would be "tyranny" if the government decided to trigger the clause without first securing parliamentary approval.
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But Mr Corbyn is a Eurosceptic who voted against every EU treaty as a backbencher and whose pro-Remain campaigning in the referendum was tepid at best.
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Strangest of all, the character at the heart of the tale—known by spymasters in Prague as "COB"—was a distinctly un-Bondlike Labour backbencher, Jeremy Corbyn.
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Jeremy Corbyn, who now leads the Labour Party, voted against it a sixth of the time when he was a backbencher and the party was in power.
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Buttigieg's resume – including Naval intelligence service in Afghanistan and executive experience in government – contrasts sharply with O'Rourke's stints as a nanny, punk-rock musician and House backbencher.
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"In a free country you have the right to offend people — I offend people in this house all the time" said Sir Edward Leigh, a Conservative backbencher.
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However, it is doubtful that Corbyn and his team would agree to support a government led by a Labour backbencher like Cooper, or Lib Dem leader Swinson.
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As a left-wing Labour backbencher for over two decades until 2015, she regularly skewered Tony Blair and took Margaret Thatcher's death as an opportunity to lambast her.
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Sanders had been a career backbencher and kind of an oddity in Washington for three decades before his stunning near miss in the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primary.
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Johnson's taciturn backbencher personality could be a boon, remixed as the quiet confidence of a world-weary glue guy and not as a checked-out vet's resigned aloofness.
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The Times might be playing fast and loose with the title "senior official," and I half expect a backbencher to be found out and expelled within short order.
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In their place was John Bolton, a former State Department official who was recently appointed the national-security adviser after a long term as a Fox News backbencher.
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The story of Mr. Collins's rise and fall — businessman to congressional backbencher, then presidential cheerleader to felon — is a tale of money, politics, family ties and murky ethics.
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On Wednesday, a conservative backbencher in the House issued an explosive request to Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham: Subpoena the phone records of House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff.
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"I have tried staying in my lane most of my time here," the Congress member, first elected to the House in 2004 and regarded as a House backbencher, told me.
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The fact that she still can't decidedly defeat a 74-year-old backbencher socialist Senator who only officially joined her party last year and is also starting to weaken vs.
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Elected in 1992, she spent 23 mostly sterile years as a left-wing backbencher, best remembered for a bitter attack on Margaret Thatcher shortly after the former prime minister's death.
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Unlike Higgins, who Republicans might be inclined to write off as a neophyte and backbencher, King holds significant power due to his close ties with House right-wingers and Trump.
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She was a rising backbencher when the House impeached President Bill Clinton in 1998, and she knew that impeachment proceedings against Trump would be just as divisive to the nation.
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A member of Parliament since 1983, he spent years as a backbencher before winning a once-improbable bid for leadership of the party after Labour lost a general election in 2015.
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He was disappointed but remained a loyal backbencher, raising money for Mr. Trump's re-election fund and publicly attacking celebrities like Snoop Dogg and Johnny Depp for their anti-Trump comments.
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Moulton is ambitious — the kind of guy who'd mount a primary challenge to an incumbent based on no real issue differences and win — and frustrated with life as a House backbencher.
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Swalwell is ambitious — the kind of guy who'd mount a primary challenge to an incumbent based on no real issue differences and win — and frustrated with life as a House backbencher.
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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.
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The 250-year-old became politically active in his 21972s and had been a so-called "backbencher" — an MP without an official position in the government or the opposition parties — since 211.
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It is notable that the only serious blow against a minister in recent months was struck by a backbencher, Yvette Cooper, who dispatched Amber Rudd, then home secretary, during a committee meeting.
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That's because even though he's a backbencher, Fox News regularly gives him a platform to spout his conspiracy theory–tinged ideas, including his call for another special counsel to investigate Hillary Clinton.
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Mr Corbyn thus made clear his intent to fight on the territory of foreign and security policy, where in his decades as a backbencher he was mostly at odds with the party.
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Figures like Jacob Rees-Mogg, the detached aristocrat and top Conservative backbencher known for his double-breasted suits and intransigence on a hard Brexit, did not make May's consensus-seeking any easier.
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As chairman of the largest caucus on Capitol Hill, the 22019-member Republican Study Committee (RSC), Walker has seen his profile grow from lowly backbencher to conservative leader in two short years.
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In the first four post-war parliaments, more than 90% of votes passed without a dissenting vote from a government backbencher, according to research by Philip Cowley of Queen Mary University in London.
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Nene sought to keep a tight rein on spending during his previous stint as finance minister, before being fired by Zuma in December 2015 and replaced with unknown parliamentary backbencher Des van Rooyen.
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"Any delay creates a bow wave of problems, not just for the government here but for the governing party around the country," Duncan Smith, now a backbencher in May's party, told BBC Radio.
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To general surprise, President Andrzej Duda, a former Law and Justice party backbencher loyal to Mr. Kaczynski, vetoed two bills that would have ended the judiciary's independence and crippled the rule of law.
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Speaking to a crowd of gawping journalists and curious tourists outside the Houses of Parliament on November 15th, Jacob Rees-Mogg (also pictured), an influential backbencher, demanded a confidence vote in the prime minister.
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Between 20 and 30 MPs are now ready to put their careers on the line to deliver Brexit should Johnson "get any sort of movement" from Brussels, the newspaper said, citing a senior backbencher.
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Nevertheless, the going could get tougher: former defense secretary Liam Fox, a leading eurosceptic Conservative backbencher, told BBC radio that up to five ministers in the prime minister's cabinet were certain to back leaving.
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Elected to the legislature as part of the Republican wave in 2010, when he was just 34, Hise spent his first few years in Raleigh as a backbencher, but he has grown increasingly assertive.
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Initially considered an underdog and called an "obscure backbencher" by the BBC, Corbyn was able to tap into a younger vote that propelled him into the leader's chair last year in a shocking result.
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Whatever the reason, Ms Megawati now matters less—she has long treated her protégé less as the president than as a recalcitrant backbencher—and Jokowi now has more room to govern on his own terms.
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"The people I have met who might be from more conservative rural backgrounds and who I thought wouldn't really subscribe to Leo really like him," said Brendan Griffin, a backbencher from the southern county Kerry.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - An outspoken African National Congress backbencher who is calling for President Jacob Zuma's resignation has been sacked by the party from her role as head of parliament's committee on public service and administration.
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By virtue of her membership in Democratic Socialists of America, her status as the first Palestinian American woman in Congress, and her vocal advocacy for impeaching President Trump, Tlaib is far more than an anonymous backbencher.
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Brazil appears poised to elect Jair Bolsonaro — a longtime backbencher who has spoken fondly of military rule and was best known until recently for his penchant for racist, sexist and homophobic comments — as its next president.
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By firing him, Labour's leader made clear his intention to do battle on the territory of foreign and security policy, on which during his decades as a backbencher he was mostly at odds with his party.
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That's fine for a House backbencher (who can take direction from leadership) or even for a senator (who can rely on staff), but things like the Turkey coup are why it doesn't work for a president.
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Even though Cheney would have been a backbencher in the upper chamber, a high-profile Senate seat would have put her in the national spotlight — potentially paving her way to a national ticket or Cabinet post.
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A few months later the finance minister, Nhlanhla Nene, was abruptly fired and replaced by an unknown backbencher who appears to have spent more time with his friends the Guptas than he did in his ministerial office.
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In a surprise move, Trudeau on Monday named Joyce Murray, a 64-year-old Liberal backbencher with no federal cabinet experience, as president of the Treasury Board, where she will be in overall charge of government spending.
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" Mr. Stapleton, like Mr. Johnson, had been a longtime Nashville backbencher — he'd written for Kenny Chesney and Luke Bryan, and been signed to Mercury with little to show for it — when he recorded the ragged, soulful "Traveller.
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The Labour backbencher stated it was necessary to stop the suffering and criminalization of sick people in the UK, and drew contrasts with the 29 US states that have legalized medical cannabis, along with many European nations.
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And as the radio hosts pointed out to Kadaga, her move to advance the bill, which had been tabled by a backbencher who appeared to later regret introducing it at all, made her quite popular at home.
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A reasonably prudent backbencher would want to have some sense of who is correct about this before committing the country to a course of action for which he is going to be held accountable on Election Day.
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Arian Foster, an All-Pro NFL running back with four Pro Bowl nods, announced his retirement on Tuesday: Foster entered the league as an undrafted free agent, and left it a backbencher in a running back committee.
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The move is unusual for an elected official - Barnaby Joyce is now a backbencher in the Liberal-National coalition government - and prompted calls from his own party for a ban on payments for media appearances by serving politicians.
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Rees-Mogg, an influential backbencher in May's Conservative party, said that May could lose a parliamentary vote on her new proposal by more than the record defeat she suffered at her first attempt to pass her Brexit deal.
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This is Jeremy Corbyn, the radical backbencher turned Labour leader, whose campaign was supposed to be a joke but now finds itself, like Trump's before it, just a "normal-sized polling error" away from a truly shocking upset.
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Henry Newman, a former advisor to Environment Secretary Michael Gove and now a Director at think tank Open Europe, said he thought that a plan put forward by Labour backbencher Yvette Cooper would do nothing but prolong the uncertainty.
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Canada's new Liberal government is pushing its pot-friendly ideas on the rest of the world, and one government backbencher hopes the country could be a driving force in getting the United Nations to reconsider its treaties that ban the drug.
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The TSC, as it is known, scrutinises Chancellor Philip Hammond, the Bank of England, and the wider financial services sector in the UK. The TSC needs a new chair after its long-time leader, Tory backbencher Andrew Tyrie, stood down at the 2017 general election.
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But Conservative& backbencher, and leading soft-Brexit campaigner Anna Soubry, today warned the PM to put an end to the "silly" threats, which she said were part of an approach to politics which had cost the party its majority at the last general election.
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Chatting for over an hour, Mr. Grimm, 48, by turns praised the president's physique ("this guy could be a good construction worker"), appraised his own opponent ("backbencher") and allowed that his ex-Marine looks gave him an aesthetic advantage with women of a certain age.
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Corbyn was an obscure, if long-serving, backbencher in the House of Commons, never trusted with ministerial office by the Labour prime ministers he served in nothing except name and devoted to an eclectic range of anti-establishment, largely left-wing and anti-capitalist causes.
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John Bercow, who currently occupies the chair, provoked the fury of Brexiteers by accepting an amendment tabled by Dominic Grieve, a Tory backbencher, that demands that the government outline a Plan B within three days if, as expected, its Brexit plan is defeated on January 15th.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Australian backbencher on Monday introduced legislation to parliament to ban the export of live sheep after the death of 2,400 animals on a ship bound for the Middle East, an incident that led to widespread criticism of the A$250 million ($13 million) industry.
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Gordhan, who had been finance minister from 2009 to 2014, was put back in the job in December after Zuma sacked Nhlanhla Nene and replaced him with the little-known backbencher Des van Rooyen, triggering a crash in the rand currency and sending banking shares sharply lower.
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Former aides to Mr. Ryan and John A. Boehner, another former House speaker, said both admonished Mr. King, but noted that he was a backbencher of little consequence in the Capitol and argued that he had not said anything nearly as incendiary as what he did last week.
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In early 2017, at a lunch for the incoming freshman class at the Capitol, he complained to table mates about how tough it was to be a backbencher and railed, in four-letter fashion, against the House Freedom Caucus — now his allies — for being "a bunch of obstructionists," according to a person sitting nearby.
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The first was an amendment by Sir Graham Brady, a leading Tory backbencher, that backed her Brexit deal so long as the much-disliked Irish "backstop", an insurance policy to avert a hard border in Ireland by keeping the United Kingdom in a customs union with the European Union, is replaced by what it coyly called "alternative arrangements".
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"It's been clear to everyone who has seen you work as a diligent constituency MP, as an effective backbencher, and also as a tenacious frontbencher in your time that you love this House of Commons, you love our democracy, and your commitment to your principles and to your constituents is unwavering and an example to others," he said.
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" Now that I'm in government, it's easier to say that we're doing meaningful things, but when I was in opposition, when I was just a backbencher and I'd be away from them four or five days a week in Ottawa while we were still living in Montreal, on that drive home I'd often think to myself, "Okay.
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Sadly, British Prime Minister Theresa MayTheresa Mary MayPence to travel to United Kingdom, Ireland and Iceland in September Pelosi vows no UK free trade deal if Brexit undermines Good Friday accord Huawei beefs up lobbying amid Trump crackdown MORE's increasing loss of control over her own Conservative Party, as evidenced by this week's backbencher revolt and by her subsequent unconvincing victory in a confidence vote, heightens the chances that the U.K. is heading toward one of two adverse economic scenarios.
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