Sentences with phrase «conservative coalition colleagues»

Business Secretary Vince Cable is set to anger his Conservative coalition colleagues today as he hails free movement in the European Union and attacks immigration «scare stories».

An unfettered attack on his Conservative coalition colleagues defines the business secretary's speech to conference - but don't let that drown out his Labour wooing

And Cable really went for it, using the first 10 minutes to remind the conference hall how his Conservative coalition colleagues» party has so often been seen as «the hated Tories» and opining that the Tories have now «reverted to type» as the «Nasty party» (Theresa May's infamous warning over a decade ago), what with «Australian rottweiler» Lynton Crosby's «dogwhistle politics».

Not exact matches

Margaret Tutwiler informed us that when the President had told conservative Protestant broadcasters that the U.S. wanted unconditional surrender and a war crimes trial, he was expressing his emotions, not policy; that when Secretary of State James Baker and his Soviet colleague Alexander Bessmertnykh said that the coalition would accept a cease - fire and would promise a regional peace conference, that was inoperative because it had not been checked.

Former health minister Norman Lamb and former energy minister Sir Ed Davey are both expected to announce challenges against their former Conservative - Lib Dem coalition colleague.

But David Cameron and his coalition colleagues face a large - scale rebellion from Conservative MPs uncomfortable with the reform.

Meanwhile, the party supports the idea that the Scottish Parliament should use its new income tax powers to raise rates in order to have more money to spend on public services (a far cry from their Westminster colleagues» advocacy of lower income tax when they were in coalition with the Conservatives).

Conservative MP and Deputy Speaker Nigel Evans, who once lost in a by - election to the Liberal Democrats, sees what his coalition colleagues are up to at their party conference in Liverpool.

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.

And end the Coalition it emphatically would: No smoke and mirrors «nudge nudge, wink wink» to Lib Dem backbenchers to vote the boundary changes down whilst Ministers went through the lobby with their Conservative colleagues: No this will have to be a D'Artagnan moment: «All for one and one for all»!

It's fair to say that I did embellish a serious point about an immigration loophole with a certain choice description, reflecting the frustration many Conservative MPs feel at their Coalition colleague's «differentiation» strategy - or put simply - rubbishing the Tories at every opportunity and taking the credit for «good» policies and distancing themselves from the less popular but invariably courageous and right ones.

The people with the broadest shoulders must take the greatest burden and while the coalition agreement may have failed to spell out how exactly that should be done, we trust that you will continue to press your Conservative colleagues in government on how best this might be achieved.

While it is widely assumed that Clegg and some of his colleagues, like Alexander and Laws, would be putting the Conservatives second on an STV ballot paper, it is clear that activists and supporters, by a margin of 2 to 1, would rather see the Lib Dems in coalition with Labour.

He called for clarity, and for his coalition colleagues to live up to their manifesto pledge on a vote, calling on them to support the Conservative Party position.

A Conservative cabinet minister suggested getting pensioners to pick fruit and vegetables below the minimum wage instead of hiring Bulgarians and Romanians at the legal rate, a former Lib Dem coalition colleague has claimed.

And for all the «my honourable friend» parliamentary etiquette between coalition parties (the early attempt at «honourable colleague» quickly abandoned), Conservative and Liberal Democrat MPs have usually chosen to sit separately on the government benches.