Sentences with phrase «coalition ministers do»

Lib Dem Coalition ministers do have a number of possible & real allies on equality measures even amongst senior Conservatives (e.g. May & occasionally also Cameron); amicable discussion should be retained in this dimension.

Not exact matches

He has been forced to operate like a prime minister in a coalition government, pleading for consensus from powerful ministers — such as combustible news head Matt Winkler and terminal boss Tom Secunda — who control resources and decide whether they'll allow anything to get done.

And the PDAC is doing its best to ensure juniors don't get overlooked in the fray of politics on the Hill — which almost saw Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative government toppled by an opposition coalition in December.

Not only does it have the youngest prime minister in almost 200 years and the first peacetime coalition government in nearly 70, it has the first Muslim woman to be a full member of the Cabinet.

My job was to go out and defend and speak forcefully and hopefully effectively on behalf of what all of our ministers were doing and defend their case in a way that perhaps they couldn't because they had to defend a more compromised coalition line... So my take is that I've gone out and got my hands dirty doing exactly that.»

«Because you don't want to be in a situation where you no longer have a majority, you can't control confidence in the House of Commons and the other party can take over... The prime minister might then call a general election in order to avoid being in a situation in which she's potentially yielding power without a general election to a coalition of Tory opponents.»

«Now there's an idea that should appeal to ministers from both coalition parties, but I don't see them limbering up for it,» he commented on his blog.

Meanwhile at the party headquarters of the far right Laos party, sitting under paintings of classical Greek scenes, vice-president Georgios Georgiou explains why they left the current governing coalition (formed under Lucas Papademos last November when the Papandreou government collapsed): «I suggested we leave the coalition... we said not to touch pensions and wages and to get rid of the two million illegal immigrants... you can not have Germans coming in sitting in ministries ordering ministers what to do.»

Coalition ministers are expected to propose the move in the lobbying bill, which will be published today, but Labour is promising to table amendments pushing the changes through if they do not appear in the government package.

The coalition agreement had seemed a done deal on Wednesday, but hit a snag Thursday after Jewish Home representatives skipped a final meeting with Likud - Beytenu negotiators, over the issue of whether Bennett would be afforded a «deputy prime minister» title.

The polls simply don't bear out the claim that Cameron is suffering from having just four Cabinet ministers out of the 19 he is allowed to choose under coalition rules.

By contrast all Cameron had done was become prime minister and form a historic coalition government.

In a message directed at the Tory right, many of whose supporters have never accepted the coalition, the prime minister said: «In a world of uncertain markets does anyone think we would be better off with a minority government that couldn't carry its legislation, that couldn't make rapid decisions?»

Heath did not resign until March 4, after confirming that a coalition with the Liberals was impossible, and Harold Wilson became the prime minister of a minority Labour government.

«Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough)(Con): The whole country will be grateful for what the Prime Minister has done, especially because he has said, if I have understood him correctly, that when he is returned as Prime Minister, without the pesky Liberal Democrats in coalition, he will renegotiate with the European Union and put a referendum to the people in which they can vote yes for the renegotiation or no to come out.

The Osborne plan (and the Coalition Agreement) called on Conservative and Liberal Democrat ministers to achieve a cyclically - adjusted target to reduce government debt as a share of national income between 2014 - 15 and 2015 - 16 and, politically and economically most significant, to do so by achieving a budget balance by the end of the Parliament.

Should a prime minister stay in office only so long as he has a potential chance to govern, or does he have a responsibility to remain as premier to enable a full coalition agreement to be agreed between the other parties?

But our leaders and Coalition ministers want to have their cake and eat it — and, at the very least, they don't want to have to eat humble pie.

Electoral reform is viewed as a key policy goal for Liberal Democrat grassroots activists, who many Conservative ministers fear could force the premature collapse of the coalition if they do not succeed in making major policy gains.

For a number of reasons, the voters didn't feel able to get behind the Liberal Democrats anti-Brexit message - probably because a vote for the Lib Dems felt like a vote for the coalition, student loans and an endorsement of Tim Farron as prime minister.

«We are in a coalition government and that does change things somewhat,» the prime minister's spokesman said.

Viewers picked holes pretty quickly in Clegg's «Lib Dems for coalition» pitch to conference, pointing out that his condemnation of single - party rule therefore undermines any argument that Lib Dem majority (or minority) government rule would be preferable, thus making his much - applauded line «In an ideal world, I wouldn't have to work with either of them because I'd be Prime Minister on my own thank you very much — and I'd like to think I'd do a better job too» fall rather flat.

David Cameron has insisted he is «doing the right thing» in sticking with the coalition's NHS reforms in a turbulent prime minister's questions.

Nevertheless, Brown did not resign as Prime Minister until 11 May, when it became clear that the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats would be able to form a governing coalition.

Its response to the coalition's consultation on proposals to allow same - sex couples to marry in the same way as heterosexual couples attacks ministers for pursuing the reform «for essentially ideological reasons» and concludes doing so would be «deeply unwise».

«At a gathering of Tory Cabinet Ministers on Monday, the Prime Minister's political secretary Stephen Gilbert presented polling evidence to them which showed that when asked what the Coalition was doing, the public thought only of the cuts.»

«What really matters is that the British Prime Minister has been doing special pleading for special interest in the City and conciliating people like you [Conservative MP Bernard Jenkin] who have never accepted the Coalition Agreement.

Lib Dem ministers still don't seem too worried about their position in the polls, commonly dismissing it as just what happens to a junior coalition partner until they find their voice, but presumably it will become a cause of concern for some point (not just for the Lib Dems, but presumably also for Conservatives who fear it placing pressure upon the coalition.

Less than two months into the first phase of the coalition's consulting process, and the prime minister did little to quash talk of a debate, telling BBC Radio 4's Today programme: «This government is taking government off the sofa and putting it round the cabinet table.

The device of a Private Member's Bill is the best he can do to regain the initiative - since Nick Clegg will not concede a Government Bill, even on a free vote, and there is nothing the Prime Minister can do to master him, short of breaking up the Coalition altogether.

It makes for a strong contrast with the coalition honeymoon, in August 2010, when 50 % of respondents believed that the deputy prime minister was doing a good job and his net score stood at +19.

In the longer term, don't forget that a considerable proportion of the Liberal Democrat MPs have a personal interest in the Coalition continuing: 18 of their 57 MPs are salaried ministers or whips, with a handful of others serving as PPSs and others ambitious to get a government job later in the Parliament.

Senior Liberal Democrats pressed the Prime Minister and the Culture Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, to limit the damage to the Coalition by derailing News Corp's bid to buy the 61 per cent of BSkyB it does not already own.

«It doesn't get you off the hook on carbon,» Nitin Desai, a member of the Indian prime minister's climate change council, said earlier this week when asked about the coalition.

For example, well before Labor promised no school would lose a dollar, the Coalition did exactly the same thing in 2001 when it introduced its socioeconomic status (SES) model under Prime Minister John Howard.

Iggy is no fan of the coalition with the NDP and the Bloc to replace Stephen Harper, preferring to bide his time and let the economy do its job on the Prime Minister.

Groups do not support extension of time or additional funding for National Inquiry Into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls until conditions are met OTTAWA, ON — November 20, 2017 - A coalition of organizations which have been granted standing in the National Inquiry Into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls are calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Carolyn Bennett, Minister of Crown - Indigenous Relations, to ensure that the Inquiry adopts a human rights based approach.

The Coalition for Migrant Workers Rights — Canada (CMWRC) is launching MoVE — a campaign for Mobility, Voice and Equality for Migrant Workers to call on Prime Minister Trudeau to keep his campaign promises to undo the harm done by the Harper government and to move towards a single - tier immigration system based on permanency and family reunification to ensure decent work for all.