How Labour should deal with the backbench rebel alliance

For backbench MPs, rebellion is the gateway drug to more rebellion. Having broken the psychological barrier of voting against ...
The Financial Times

Backbench committee asked to lift epetition threshold by ministers

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest BAE Systems PLC news every morning. Ministers have proposed increasing the threshold by which e-petitions have a chance of generating a ...
Politico Europe

UK MPs are again pushing to tighten rules around backbench groups

LONDON — The British parliament’s controversial backbench groups have been back in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons. Now some MPs want to tighten the rules that govern them. A new report from ...
Daily Mail

Labour ministers face a backbench rebellion over controversial plans to strip 10 million pensioners of their winter fuel payments

Labour ministers are facing a backbench rebellion over their planned cuts to Winter Fuel Payments as the Tories try to stop the controversial move being forced through without a debate. Chancellor ...