8. Conservative ministers and MPs differ over timing (new treaties are not conjured up overnight, ministers have warned backbenchers).
随着时间的推移,保守党内阁和议员们的意见出现分歧(内阁提醒后座议员,新条约并非一蹴而就)。
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9. Backbenchers fear the ghoulish tortures of whips and the lost chance of preferment that rudeness about the prime minister might incur.
后座议员害怕残忍的鞭打刑讯和失去关于首相可能招致粗蛮的表现机会。
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10. Sooner or later, though, Mr Cameron has some home truths to tell his own backbenchers. These surely include the fact that on many issues Euroscepticism has won.
11. Tory backbenchers have urged David Cameron to take the opportunity of any treaty changes arising from the crisis to repatriate powers from Brussels to Westminster.
12. Instead of bringing forward legislation to ban sunbeds for under-18s himself, Mr Burnham will merely back a Bill laid down tomorrow by one of his party's backbenchers.
13. Rather than working out how to skewer Mr Cameron, European leaders would do better thinking what they can offer him that might get him off the hook with his more rabid backbenchers.
14. That feeling was palpable even before the expenses scandal, over which some backbenchers say Mr Cameron showed indulgent favouritism to his acolytes, while sinking others in their moats.
15. Unless concessions are made to backbenchers, Mr Brown must rely on Conservative support to pass his legislation on the postal service—a fate almost as damaging as seeing the bill fail altogether.
16. Unless concessions are made to backbenchers, Mr Brown must rely on Conservative support to pass his legislation on the postal service—a fate almost as damaging as seeing the bill fail altogether.