Sentences with phrase «conservatives forming a government»

Mr. Mulcair's speech reminded me of what Stephen Harper sounded like before the Conservatives formed government in Ottawa eight years ago.

Paul Kenny, general secretary of the GMB union, pointed out that the Conservatives formed a government after the last election despite winning fewer than 40 % of votes.

Not exact matches

Many governments, businesses and social organizations rely on the data, and opposition groups argue the Conservatives are attempting to influence future public policy decisions since low - income earners and immigrants will be less likely to fill out a voluntary form.

Only this January, following the threat from the opposition parties to form a coalition and wrest control of Parliament from the Conservatives, did the government unveil a $ 35 - billion stimulus package including $ 18 billion in infrastructure spending.

Despite a bruising election result for her Conservative party, May will seek permission from the Queen to form a new government on Friday, according to a spokesperson from her office.

'' The Canadian Institute of Planners (CIP) sent a letter to Minister of Industry, Hon. Tony Clement expressing its concern and requesting that the Conservative government reverse its decision to eliminate the long - form questionnaire in the 2011 Census.

On this basis they could form a majority government, or even a minority government with more seats than the Conservatives.

However, when the substantial majority of over 60 per cent gets split among four other competing parties, the Conservatives — with a minority of the vote — could wind up forming the government.

While Germany's official Energiewende strategy calls for a transition from fossil fuel and nuclear energy to renewable energy, and reduction of emissions by 40 percent by 2020 compared to 1990 levels, the recently formed German government is more conservative than the previous governments.

It proved a good move for the Conservatives, who gained 25 seats and formed a new minority government, as well as for the New Democrats, who added 10 MPs.

On Sunday, Germany's Social Democrats party voted overwhelmingly to form a coalition treaty with incumbent conservatives in order to usher in a new government.

Political parties failed to form a coalition government after May 6 elections, triggering another contest between the pro-bailout New Democracy conservatives and left - wing Syriza party that has promised to cancel the terms of the country's rescue loan agreements.

The next leader of the NDP will need to work hard to ensure that progressive voters do not flock to one conservative party in order to block another conservative party from forming government during the next election.

Includes an examination of a possible vote of non-confidence against the Conservative minority government; a request to the Governor General to allow a Liberal - New Democratic coalition to form a new government; and the immediate tasks facing a possible coalition government once in power.

The nutty social conservatives proved to be the Wildrose's greatest weakness in the 2012 election, costing the party a chance at forming government.

The polls had only closed for 22 minutes when the news channels began declaring that the long in the tooth Progressive Conservatives would form another majority government in Alberta.

Religions = primitive form of government, some are based on democratic values, or some are communist type, some are liberal, or some are conservative.

At Wednesday's oral arguments, the court's conservative majority appeared to have the votes to allow the public prayers to continue in some form, but both sides expressed concerns about the level of judicial and government oversight over prayers presented by members of a particular faith.

They create fear in the lower class by saying the conservatives will do away with welfare and then say they will keep it in place and make sure that the people continue to get what they are getting now.The Conservatives point to the 47 % who are taking some form of government handout and tell their base that this should not be so in its present state, but shouldconservatives will do away with welfare and then say they will keep it in place and make sure that the people continue to get what they are getting now.The Conservatives point to the 47 % who are taking some form of government handout and tell their base that this should not be so in its present state, but shouldConservatives point to the 47 % who are taking some form of government handout and tell their base that this should not be so in its present state, but should be reformed.

The president's giant turnip of a campaign in 2008 is perhaps a trap from which a mere reliance on the auxiliary precautions of the constitutional form of government could withstand — at least from a conservative point of view.

The Government has been formed by the Conservative Party, which won 331 seats out of 650.

If Labor had more seats than the conservatives, but still not enough to form a government, there's no reason to assume that the DUP or SF would not happily go into government with them.

With neither Labour nor the Conservatives likely to be capable of forming a majority government and given the SNP's fragmented unionist opponents north of the border, Britain's first - past - the - post electoral system could allow Nicola Sturgeon's party to exact a high price for support of a government in the Commons.

In 2010 a coalition government formed between the Conservative party and Liberal democrats took office.

The fact that the Conservatives have had to do a deal with Nick Clegg's Liberal Democrats to form a government has not pleased members and activists.

an entirely obstreperous Lib Dem Party might force Labour to form a grand coalition with the Conservatives or at least agree to dissolve the government or lose all credibility themselves.

If, as looks likely, the Conservatives end up with the largest number of seats, they get to go first in trying to form a government by going into coalition with other parties.

[9] The phrase classical liberalism is also sometimes used to refer to all forms of liberalism before the 20th century, and some conservatives and right - libertarians use the term classical liberalism to describe their belief in the primacy of economic freedom and minimal government.

After the Liberal Democrats formed a coalition government with the Conservative Party, Adonis stepped down from frontline politics.

His resignation came as he published Minority Verdict, his critical analysis of why the Conservative Party failed to gain an overall majority in the general election; leading to the Conservatives forming the Coalition government with the Liberal Democrats.

Instead, the party with the largest number of seats — in this case, it looks like the Conservatives — will attempt to form a coalition government with one of the smaller parties.

For these people, the Conservatives have settled on the message that however much they may like what Nigel has to say, the better UKIP do next May the more likely it is that Her Majesty will have to ask Ed Miliband to form a government.

The Conservatives formed a majority government, and a Labour (predicted) lead of 1.9 % actually became a Conservative lead of 7.5 %.

Conservatives (if I can go ahead and drop the ambiguity) believe that you should be free to spend your money how you see fit, not have it taken from you by the government in the form of taxes to be spent for you how that government sees fit in the form of entitlements / welfare / whatever.

It is this twentieth - century politics that allowed the Conservatives to form a coalition with the Liberal Democrats - the ideological obstacles to forming a government only took five days to overcome.

David Cameron became Prime Minister on 11 May after Gordon Brown's resignation and the Liberal Democrats formed a coalition government with the Conservative Party, with Nick Clegg as Deputy Prime Minister and other Liberal Democrats in the cabinet.

Following the general election of 2010, the Liberal Democrats formed a coalition government with the Conservatives, resulting in party leader Nick Clegg becoming the Deputy Prime minister and many other members becoming ministers.

[19] With no party having an overall majority, the Lib Dems agreed to form a coalition government with the Conservatives, with Clegg becoming Deputy Prime Minister and other party members taking up ministerial positions.

Polls are judged first and foremost on whether they correctly indicate which party will form the next government and, as the chart below shows, were the Conservatives not to win an overall majority on June 8, we would be looking at a polling miss of unprecedented magnitude.

The hung parliament of 2010 produced a Conservative - Liberal Democrat coalition but after the Lib Dems» unhappy experience in office — and with neither Labour nor the Conservatives prepared to form a coalition with the resurgent SNP — the UK may be heading for a minority government.

But for party finance reform more generally, the asymmetric effects of these changes are such that a future Labour or Labour - led government may exact some form of «revenge», either though excessively partisan measures or through a root and branch reform of party finance regardless of any opposition from the Conservative Party.

Whilst the election results did not deliver the Conservatives the mandate to form a majority government, the coalition with the Liberal Democrats will not act as a progressive brake on the Conservatives.

The party was unable to form a majority government after Scottish Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives turned it down.

Mr Clarke, a former chancellor, is the only Conservative frontbencher with experience of trying to form a coalition government.

Conservative Way Forward calls on Cameron to form a minority government without the Liberal Democrats

Talks are going on among the Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats to see who can form a government.

[71][87] Support for Labour slumped during the recession, and the general election of 2010 resulted in a coalition government being formed by the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats, which made deep spending cuts in order to ease the budget deficit.

(f) The final option would be if both Labour and the Conservatives were too far from an overall majority to form a government without the Liberal Democrats, and that the Lib Dems (coming either first or second in the popular vote, though still third in number of seats) decide not to allow either to form a functioning government.

Instead of an immediate election, it might be possible for Nick Clegg to offer to form a government, with either Labour or the Conservatives as the junior partner.

However, if Cameron, having lost the confidence of his MPs, resigns as Prime Minister, it is a moot point whether the Queen will invite Miliband or the new Conservative leader to form a government.