Sentences with phrase «conservative coalition partners»

The Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has expressed what's been described as «strong differences of opinion» with his Conservative coalition partners.

But it would be bound to provoke tensions with the party's Conservative coalition partners, who strongly oppose reform of drugs laws.

Cable used the Guardian - hosted event, which looked at the issues surrounding immigration, to tear into policies which, he claimed, had been imposed on his government by his Conservative coalition partners.

The Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has accused his Conservative coalition partners of failing to enforce basic standards of education in Free Schools in England.

The Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has expressed what's been described as «strong differences of opinion» with his Conservative coalition partners.

With Lib Dem and Conservative coalition partners already issuing blunt correctives to each other over the 50p tax rate, the report could cause more tension in the coalition as both parties approach their annual conference.

Yet on 10 June, the Lib Dems nationally gave ground to their Conservative coalition partners and announced # 2.8 m of savings for City of York Council this financial year.

Mr Alexander said his party would start campaigning for change immediately and if it couldn't convince its Conservative coalition partners it would made a manifesto pledge ahead of the next General Election.

The new party has yet to be named, but even so, a recent Gallup poll reported Stronach had 8 % of voter support, compared to 28 % for the governing Social Democrats (SPO), 21 % for its conservative coalition partner the People's Party (OVP), and 20 % for the opposition Freedom Party (FPO).

It had seemed that the Liberal Democrats recent approach of differentiation from its dominant Conservative coalition partner on some policies, while sticking to the broad government austerity programme — reconciling the «unity / distinctiveness» dilemma — would reap some reward with voters.

Not exact matches

The Conservative government's first efforts to pass it in the last parliament were frustrated by its Liberal Democrat coalition partners, but the bill has been revived in a slightly watered - down version since the Conservatives won a majority in May's general elections.

The break down of the talks came as a surprise, especially as it was announced by the resurgent FDP, Merkel's preferred coalition partners who had dropped out of parliament four years ago and had ruled with her conservatives 2009 - 2013.

The centre - left Social Democrats (SPD), Merkel's current coalition partners who were the second - biggest party in the election, have ruled out a repeat of an alliance with her conservatives, who won the vote but were left with fewer seats.

Responding to popular pressure, Merkel's conservatives and their left - leaning Social Democrat (SPD) coalition partners agreed on Thursday to tighten asylum rules, reaching a compromise on how to stem the influx of migrants.

Meanwhile, Tim Wilson, who is part of the conservative coalition, was among the first politicians to join the debate and used his speech to propose to his 33 - year - old partner Ryan Bolger, a primary school teacher, who was watching from the public gallery.

The London mayor fired one of his strongest salvos yet against the Conservatives» coalition partners on the way down to Hampshire from the capital, in a move only likely to send coalition relations further into the mire.

By avoiding confrontation and by making concessionary gestures to their Coalition partner, their strategy would appear to be to «hang the Liberal Democrats out to dry»; as realistically, the Conservative Party backbench would never pass a bill mandating a grand convention to write a brand new constitution from scratch.

But the changes are in the interests of everyone (* except * the Conservatives, perhaps), including a viable Labour coalition partner for the Liberal Democrats, for the Liberal Democrats to have increased power against the Conservatives.

The Conservatives succeeded tactically and mostly at the expense of their coalition partner, the Lib Dems, by gaining 26 of their seats and 10 of Labour's, destroying Labour's ambitions to target 80 Conservative - held seats.

In a candid interview looking back on his five years as deputy prime minister in the Tory - Lib Dem coalition, Clegg said he found the behaviour of his senior Conservative partner «very unattractive, very cynical».

«The Conservative party was committed to that in its election, but this is a coalition government and we need to look at that with our partners.»

«Number 10 need to listen to their Conservative backbenchers and the Conservative Party grass roots more often, and to their minority and junior Coalition partners less often,» he said.

The Conservatives appear poised to gain some votes from their coalition partners while UKIP continue to pick up votes from all three main political parties (see UKIP: Picking up lumps of old Labour support?).

Journalist George Eaton maintains that Osborne did not expect an outright Conservative majority, and expected his Liberal Democrat coalition partners to make him break that promise.

Both factors were crucial in building a majority — the Conservatives suffered virtually no net loss to Labour, with 10 losses offset by eight gains, and gained 26 seats as their former coalition partners collapsed.

Yesterday's YouGov poll (Con 41 %, Labour 40 %, Lib Dems 11 %) represents an 8.5 % swing to the Conservatives from their coalition partners since the election, and an 11.5 % swing to Labour.

[90] The Liberal Democrats» erstwhile coalition partner, Cameron's Conservatives, won an outright majority, negating the need for them to accommodate the smaller party in government.

Befitting its status as the senior coalition partner, contributing 306 of the coalition's original 363 MPs, and both the prime minister and chancellor of the exchequer, the Conservative Party provided the the primary inspiration for the programme for government that ensued from the negotiations between the two parties.

The deputy prime minister told David Cameron that the Conservatives needed to be seen kicking Tory supporters where it hurts if only to demonstrate that the coalition partners are «in this together» when it comes to busting election pledges.

However, the Conservative»» coalition partners remain fiercely opposed to any changes to the current law and Chris Huhne, the Lib Dem energy secretary, said: «If Conservative backbenchers persist in wanting to tear up the European Convention on Human Rights, then I can foresee a time when this party would be extremely uncomfortable in coalition.»

The prime minister is in the difficult position of not wanting to harm relations with his coalition partner while also desperately trying to avoid a Conservative defeat in Eastleigh, which goes to the polls today.

Labour MP Ian Davidson won the biggest laughter of the session with an attack on the Conservatives» coalition partners.

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg announced today that plans to reform the House of Lords will be abandoned after the Conservatives had «broken the contract» between the coalition government partners.

The election was a disaster for Labour, which had hoped to form at least a minority government, and an outright catastrophe for the Conservatives» partners in coalition, the Liberal Democrats.

The election result would indeed change British politics, although not in the way that Cameron intended: the obliteration of the Conservatives» Liberal Democrat coalition partners cleared the way for the referendum that set Britain on a path to leave the EU and ended Cameron's political career.

The previous record was in 1945 when the Conservatives went down to their landslide defeat at the hands of their wartime coalition partners, the Labour Party.

The correct democratic thing — as much as I hate to say it — is to recognise that the conservatives have the democratic right to be in government as the majority partner in a coalition, and the offer cameron has made is in my view fair and reflects the electoral mandate.

The direct tax is likely to be met with a hostile reception in Britain by the ruling Conservative party - meaning their pro-European Liberal Democrat partners in government's reaction could be crucial to ensuring the issue does not divide the coalition.

The other two coalition partners, the Pasok socialists and the conservative New Democracy, have a sweeping parliamentary majority and do not need Karatzaferis's 16 votes.

Second, the Green Party may well benefit from a leakage of support from the Liberal Democrats because of their partnering in coalition with the Conservatives.

I'd like it to be a real Conservative government... we have to recognise we don't have a majority on a lot of things in the house of commons, we need to take our coalition partners along with us.

A former Conservative minister wondered about the future of the coalition, after Liberal Democrat partners «ratted and reneged» on a deal over new Parliamentary boundaries, and he claimed the smaller party could no longer be trusted.

The Lib Dem election campaign focused on the likelihood of there being a hung parliament and sold the party as the best option as a coalition partner for either Labour or the Conservatives, promising to stop each party lurching off to the left or the right.

Paddy Ashdown has urged his restive party to prepare for the possibility of a second coalition with the Tories, saying the Conservatives have proved surprisingly good and trustworthy partners for the Liberal Democrats in government.

The Conservatives have seemingly moved to the right, giving some clear space for the Lib Dems to push their «fairer society» message, while Theresa May stoking up anti-human rights rhetoric is a perfect setup for Lib Dem ministers to take a swing at their coalition partners.

It seems the Conservatives» coalition partners are not convinced by Adrian Beecroft's work on removing employment protection

Liberal Democrat delegates appeared to struggle when asked to choose between Labour and the Conservatives as a potential future coalition partner.

UKIP's coming second in the 2009 European elections were a reminder that there is a right wing of Great Britain that doesn't vote always Conservative, but might well vote for parties who would be plausible coalition partners for the Conservatives.

His remarks, before the critical by - election for the coalition partners, reflect Conservative concern that the main route to an overall majority at the next election will be blocked if Tories can not capture a string of Liberal Democrat seats.»

Ahead of the referendum, the Liberal Democrats will campaign for the AV system but their coalition partners, the Conservatives, will argue to retain the current «first past the post» system.