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 ...

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 ...

They try often enough. But bearing in mind how often big rebellions take place, we know very little about what is going on behind the scenes. Now one prominent backbench organiser - Labour MP Martin ...

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 ...

Ahead of the Conservative party’s spring conference, David Cameron is increasingly worried about Tory backbench dissent – and about how much worse it could get after the AV referendum. David Cameron ...

Visitors to the clock tower that contains Big Ben can thank a little known body called the Backbench Business Committee for saving them money. In its two-year existence, this committee has chalked up ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The federal government is facing growing calls from mental health experts, the Greens, the Coalition and its own backbench to reverse ...