Up to now the Lords, dominated by independent cross-benchers, have chosen to defeat governments only sparingly.
The House back-benchers now demand a one year extension of the payroll tax holiday.
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It is likely to face extreme pressure on the issue from Conservative back-benchers already angry with the Brussels budget.
Labour MP Graham Stringer has criticised his party leader Ed Miliband and said back-benchers should be free to vote in any way.
Tory back benchers and setting out an alternative to David Cameron and George Osborne than she is about a coherent policy for Government.
He endeared himself to back-benchers by allowing more private notice questions, so compelling ministers to come to the despatch box to explain decisions.
The international development secretary, Clare Short, was one of three front-benchers who resigned over Labour's support for the first Gulf War in 1991.
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Opposition peers and cross-benchers are likely to oppose the ban.
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The government retorts that without the support of the hereditary peers (including cross-benchers, admittedly), the Lords would have been unable to defeat the government over the European elections.
Many Conservative back-benchers will only settle for powers being repatriated.
You lost three front benchers some time back (they're now back again) over this matter of giving a referendum on the European Treaty, something Kate Hoey raised as well.
Part of my job involves reporting the Friday sittings of the Commons, when private members bills are debated - and Mr Nuttall has emerged as an enthusiastic player of the tactical games played by a group of Conservative back-benchers to kill off many of those bills (they see it as an exercise in legislative hygiene, stopping what they see as unnecessary and burdensome bills).
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