Sentences with phrase «coalition agreement which»

Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he said: «This is a coalition agreement which has always involved ompromise on both sides.

Given the libertarian coup d'etat that Mr Clegg carried out in ditching the official LibDem manifesto and writing whole swathes of the Orange Book into the Coalition Agreement which his own party had previously massively rejected, Nick Clegg can not be really very surprised that the rasberry he got in the local elections and AV vote is going to be reflected within Westminster machine as well.

Mr George said: «We both signed up to a Coalition Agreement which promised to stop the top - down reorganisations of the NHS that had got in the way of patient care.

In an interview on BBC1's Politics Show today, Vince Cable, the Business Secretary, insists all pre-election pledges, including on fees, were usurped by the coalition agreement which is «binding upon us».

Not exact matches

The Stop Mega Cable coalition — of which the Dish Network is a member — released a statement saying the agreement is «an important first step,» but fails to deal with some of the group's criticisms.

Under this agreement, the Liberals and NDP agreed to form a coalition government, which would be supported by the Bloc.

Politically, we will need to find points of agreement which bring together egalitarians, liberal republicans and social democrats, so as to build a powerful reform coalition.

It was in the coalition agreement that the Liberal Democrats would be permitted to look at alternatives to the «continuous at - sea deterrent», which the prime minister's spokesperson insisted yesterday ministers are completely committed to.

The coalition agreement, which, let us remember, was negotiated and produced within 5 days, appeared to give the Tories most of what they wanted, and especially on the all - important economic policy side of things.

To which end it's instructive to note the way in which the CGT wording shifted between the original and final versions of the coalition agreement, in a direction which allows a far less significant change in actual tax rates.

Now the dynamics identified in your post (together with the simple fact of Tory numerical supremacy within the coalition) mean that those issues not decisively closed off in the agreement will tend to be decided by the Tories in their own favour, and even those items that are dealt with in an apparently decisive way in the agreement will be pulled in a more «Tory» direction in their implementation, especially where being implemented by a Tory cabinet minister (or by David Laws, which amounts to the same thing...).

So, our debate with the Lib - Dems and their supporters should not be about the fairness of cuts - which ends up with short - term / long - term arguments - but the kamikazi economics of the coalition agreement, which threatens at worst a return to recession and at best low levels of growth.

Whether it would be a coalition, confidence - and - supply or some other kind of agreement is not addressed here; that is less important for policy than which parties are involved.

Given the math, a Kaminsky victory in April would not necessarily flip the majority back to Democrats unless new agreements were struck between mainline Democrats, the Independent Democratic Conference (which has a coalition with the GOP) and Simcha Felder, a Brooklyn Democrat who votes with the Republicans.

Firstly, Bucharest has just released the first instalment of 60 million euros as part of a financial assistance agreement with Moldova, offering de facto support for the current governing coalition in Chisinau, which is oriented around the Democratic Party and its controversial backer, Vladimir Plahotniuc.

I draw his attention to section 21 of the coalition agreement, which says in respect of the incident to which I think he is referring, that «arrangements will be made to enable Liberal Democrat MPs to abstain in any vote.»

Although many wish to see no bill at all — for good reason — a significant number would support a bill which was amended to comply with what the the Sheffield conference called for last year, so that the bill is more in line with the Coalition Agreement.

There was a story in the FT on 17 June 2011 which reported that «Coalition 2.0 «(by which the FT meant «Coalition Phase 2») was being quietly dropped (to get round the FT's paywall in order to read the story, do a Google search for the headline «Coalition 2.0 agreement put on back burner»).

It is worth saying to colleagues on the Government Benches who support the Government's proposals and respect the coalition agreement that my hon. Friend's amendment is not compatible with what we set out in the coalition agreement, which was a simple majority referendum, without an outcome - specific threshold.

Furthermore, the rise in the state pension age to 66 explicitly contradicts the government's own programme in the coalition agreement, which promised not to begin to raise the qualifying age until at least 2016 for men and 2020 for women.

Nick Clegg has made clear he expects Conservative colleagues to «stick to the deal» in the coalition agreement, following a vote on House of Lords reform on Tuesday night in which 91 Tories rebelled.

Last month, Klein and Governor Andrew Cuomo announced an agreement under which the I.D.C., which currently runs the Senate in coalition with the Republicans, will join with the regular Democrat conference after the November elections.

Despite the terse statement in the coalition agreement that «arrangements will be made to enable Liberal Democrat MPs to abstain in any vote» on proposals from Browne with which they disagree, numerous backbenchers - including the former leader Menzies Campbell - have let it be known that they plan to rebel if the party performs a U-turn in government on fees.

He examines the wide - ranging proposals for constitutional reform, which were in the coalition agreement.

«The UK is working to build a broad coalition of governments, international organisations, non-governmental organisations and businesses which share the vision of a world free of nuclear weapons and to forge agreement on how we will work together to make it happen,» the department said.

That would have been in keeping with the Coalition Agreement — in which neither policy had a set timetable.

Until you re-read the part of the Coalition Agreement in which Lords reform is mentioned:

This agreement, which will cost taxpayers $ 271.1 million, follows a pattern the de Blasio administration laid out with the Uniformed Superior Officers Coalition which represents eight uniformed unions spanning sanitation, police, fire and corrections officers.

Most importantly, Parliament as a whole (as well as the electorate) did not endorse by any kind of mandate the Coalition arrangements, which in turn endorsed the Coalition Agreement.

The Guardian revealed government figures on Monday which show that the sale of school sports fields continues even though ministers declared in the coalition agreement that they would seek to protect them.»

1B Calls for there to be effective consultation with the party at large, through its democratic structures, when new Government policies are proposed, which are not included in the Coalition agreement, and which conflict with Lib Dem policy or principles

The mechanism that we have proposed to achieve that stability is set out in the coalition agreement, which states that the Government will «put a binding motion before the House of Commons in the first days following this agreement stating that the next general election will be held on the first Thursday of May 2015.

Both parties» ministers shared collective responsibility for the government's positions, although the coalition agreement detailed several issues on which the parties agreed to differ; the Liberal Democrats abstained from voting in such cases.

Conference regrets that some of the proposed reforms have never been Liberal Democrat policy, did not feature in our manifesto or in the Coalition agreement, which instead called for an end to large - scale top - down reorganisations.

The full Coalition Agreement last May said: «We will fund 200 all - postal primaries over this Parliament, targetted at seats which have not changed hands for many years.»

Whether there existed something acceptable which Labour could offer in exchange would of course depend on negotiations, However, this sort of agreement has significant advantages over post-election deals about coalitions or lesser forms of cooperation — they require neither agreement of a programme (which inevitably means political compromise) nor standing down in areas (which can have detrimental effects in the longer term or on other elections such as Euro elections fought over larger geographical units).

In a strategy agreed with the Liberal Democrats, the coalition will uphold its agreement which rules out extra runways at Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted in this parliament.

«We were nowhere near an agreement on HASA,» he said at the protest, which was organized by the Campaign 4 NY / NY Housing, a coalition of more than 300 housing groups from across the state.

David Cameron and Nick Clegg today launched a seven - page agreement which will form the basis of a five - year government programme for the first British peacetime coalition since the 1930s.

«However, the coalition agreement that the Liberal Democrats should abstain on any proposals tabled in the House of Commons following Lord Browne's review of fees which they dislike, would deliver a Conservative majority for tuition fee and university funding reform.»

Despite what some Liberal Democrats argue the deal was unrelated to delivering an elected Lords (just as it is unrelated to Coalition Agreement promises on Human Rights reform and answering the West Lothian Question (things, which if brought to a vote, would have been rejected by Lib Dem MPs).

My sense is that the enthusiasm within the Powers - That - Be for finding candidates with no real background in the Party has passed its high - water mark, though not to the degree that the interest in open primaries has cooled (which it clearly has, since the Coalition Agreement plan for 200 all - postal primaries has apparently been dropped).

Europe has flared up again as eurosceptics put pressure on the prime minister ahead of his attempted renegotiation of Britain's EU membership terms, which can not begin formally until he wins an overall parliamentary majority or he secures agreement with the Liberal Democrats in a fresh coalition agreement.

Many on this website feel betrayed at the ease with which this apparently immovable pillar of May's Coalition Agreement is being dismantled.

Campaigners had become increasingly concerned that the pledge, which was in the coalition agreement, was being kicked into the long grass following months of silence over the issue.

He lambasts the idea of the Lib Dems withdrawing their ministers before the next election; he admits that he might have left his party had they not proved they were serious about governing; he warns against excessive differentiation, from both sides, before 2015; he praises the original Coalition Agreement as «fantastically ambitious»; and he emphasises the importance of spending cuts (alongside further Quantitative Easing and a bit more «investment spending» where possible, which is more or less the government's official position as well).

Since January 1943 an agreement existed between the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art on a coalition which would culminate in the combining of their collections of American art in a new building, paid for from the endowment of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney.

«The protocol is like the Titanic,» said Glenn Kelly, executive director of the Global Climate Coalition, which has fought against the Kyoto agreement using contributions from industries that regard gas restrictions as a threat.

Led by states and regions internationally, the Coalition, for which The Climate Group acts as Secretariat, brings together signatories and endorsers of the Under2 MOU from across 39 countries to fight climate change and support the Paris Climate Agreement's goal of keeping global warming below 2 °C.

it may be much more cost effective to reduce greenhouse gases in developing countries than in their developed brethren), it may be possible to develop an unusual coalition between corporations, developing countries, and environmental organizations which would collectively press their governments to forge international agreements.