Sentences with phrase «dem coalition colleague»

Clegg insisted the British people would ultimately appreciate «we can win in the world by being open» if his coalition colleague David Cameron gets his referendum in the next parliament.

Nick Clegg mounted a strong attack on his coalition colleagues today, as the Eastleigh by - election campaign began in earnest.

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.

This political positioning is an indication of the less collegial tone of Coalition colleagues that we can expect from the next session of Parliament.

Looking at that law by the way, it was initiated by the Lithuanian governing party, the Christian Democrats — who are members of the EPP — in conjunction with their coalition colleagues the Liberals — who are members of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party.

The benefits of maintaining stability to safeguard the remaining years in power slowly diminish as the case for the alternative - attacking one's coalition colleagues in a bid to win an overall majority at the next general election - becomes more and more compelling.

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

Liberal Democrat MP Don Foster said his party could vote with Labour against coalition colleagues to try and block the News Corp takeover of BSkyB.

Tory backbenchers have one more reason to hate their Lib Dem coalition colleagues.

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.

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.

«It's not as if they weren't warned - including by their coalition colleagues,» Balls continues.

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».

Nowadays the general trend is towards sticking one's nose up at coalition colleagues.

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

Labour leader Ed Miliband attacked the Lib Dems for their «broken promises» in the Commons, before David Cameron defended the «courageous and difficult decision» taken by his coalition colleagues.

Deputy Speaker Nigel Evans sees what his coalition colleagues are up to at their party conference in Liverpool.

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».

There were occasional flare - ups, especially among Tory MPs lashing out at their coalition colleagues.

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.

The Business Secretary attacked his party's coalition colleagues reminding them of Theresa May's previous description of the «nasty pasty», claiming it had «reverted to type».

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.

The champion of this set - up isn't Osborne, let alone Duncan Smith, but their Coalition colleague, Vince Cable.

Accused by Coalition colleague Nick Clegg of «outrageous untruths» and putting the lives of children at risk by her department's inactivity following her speech to the Tory Party conference in 2014.

But dissatisfaction about the hardline reaction on the Tory benches among their Liberal Democrat coalition colleagues is intensifying with key figures urging caution.

Dear NIAMS Coalition colleagues: Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) took a major step to inc...

Rivera Herrera and his coalition colleagues are now mounting a fundraising campaign to help the government purchase the remaining privately owned land in the corridor.

Not exact matches

But a colleague from D'Alema's Democrats of the Left, the largest coalition party, said that if he resigned, the whole government would have to follow suit.

Yesterday I attended the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Coalition for Good Governance, along with a handful of colleagues from the Clarkson Centre for Business Ethics.

Following Saperstein's confirmation, Moore, his colleague Barrett Duke, and the National Latino Evangelical Coalition's...

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.

♦ A colleague at Harvard passes on this broadsheet issued by the «Coalition for Civil Rights,» a group made up of «spokespersons» for myriad ethnic and racial minorities, plus gays, lesbians, and assorted lifestyle liberationisms.

That's why I'm thrilled to share with you a new «white paper» on food rewards in classrooms, co-authored by my blogging colleague Casey Hinds of KY Healthy Kids, along with Dr. Alicia Fedewa of University of Kentucky, College of Education and Anita Courtney, M.S., R.D., of Tweens Nutrition and Fitness Coalition.

Share the details of our online breastfeeding conference, Diversity, culture and infant feeding, with your colleagues, your clinic, hospital and breastfeeding coalition.

Ed Miliband's tactic, and the tactic of many of his colleagues, has been to attack the Lib Dems as the weak link - to prompt a falling - out between the party and its coalition partners.

«In deference to our Liberal colleagues in the coalition we haven't majored on the phrase,» said Tory minister Oliver Letwin in 2014.

«Vince Cable stunned colleagues last night by declaring that the Coalition could break up before the election and indicating that he has private «red lines» that would prompt him to walk out of the Cabinet.

Tory leadership hopefuls could make the argument to colleagues that another coalition would undermine the Tory party and force them to break more promises.

Harper's task over the past two years has been to pilot legislation that has been anathema to many of his Tory colleagues but vital to the Liberal Democrats and therefore essential for keeping the coalition alive.

I look forward to working with the coalition, and with my colleagues in the Assembly and the Senate, especially Senate sponsors Andrea Stewart - Cousins and Michael Gianaris, Election Law chair Michael Cusick, and Assemblymember Latrice Walker, all of whom have been leaders on these issues, to do the vital work necessary to strengthen this most basic aspect of our democracy.

«I'd like to thank Governor Cuomo for adding this funding to his budget proposal and recognize all of my colleagues in the legislature and the advocates, especially the Let New York Vote Coalition, who have worked tirelessly to make early voting a reality in New York.

I thank Democratic Conference Leader Stewart - Cousins, Senator Gianaris, my colleagues, the Vote Better coalition including NYC Votes, NYPIRG, Citizens Union, NAACP, and Dominicanos USA for their continued focus on improving voting laws.»

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.

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).

This was to be a strength for the leadership of the coalition, especially the «Quad» and its close advisers, but also a weakness in the eyes of those parliamentary colleagues who felt uneasy with a coalition and were politically excluded.

MPs are to be given the power to effectively fire misbehaving colleagues under coalition plans out today.

Whether Nick Clegg (assuming he still leads his party) and his colleagues are up for a deal — either in the form of a full coalition or a looser confidence - and - supply arrangement — is another matter, which might not be resolved for some days.

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.

Of course, I am always happy to discuss these issues with colleagues from either side of the House, including those in the coalition.

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»!