"conservative" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Preparing to respond, he was interrupted by an angry Conservative backbencher, Leo Amery, who exclaimed "Speak for England, Arthur!"
- Philip Davies, another Conservative backbencher, said the proposal was "the most ludicrous thing the Government has ever suggested".
- Nadine Dorries, the outspoken Conservative backbencher, will face no charges over questionable expenses claims she made on her taxpayer-funded allowances, prosecutors have announced.
- Richard Shepherd, a critical Conservative backbencher, said: "I'm very much for the European Convention on Human Rights being brought into our law.
- Just after the war began the prime minister was asked by a Conservative backbencher to condemn the BBC for announcing that it would avoid calling British troops 'our troops'.
- In 1988, when a Conservative backbencher, Robert Adley, tried to get diplomatic relations restored, Foreign Office ministers briefed him on British preconditions.
- Amazing how quickly Cameron's tone went from lampooning of Miliband to taking a Conservative backbencher's question with grave solemnity.
- - David Davis, the Conservative backbencher, has said the government must defend the right to jury trial.
- A senior Conservative backbencher with knowledge of the energy sector told the Guardian he expected the CCS deal to collapse within weeks.
- There were calls for a parliamentary inquiry, too, into what a Conservative backbencher from the battered town of Southend East called an "incomprehensibile" lapse.
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