Sentences with phrase «democrat coalition agreement»

Later that day, the two parties jointly published the Conservative — Liberal Democrat coalition agreement specifying the terms of the deal.

The Liberal Democrats emerged from a meeting of their Parliamentary party and Federal Executive to announce that the coalition deal had been «approved overwhelmingly» shortly after midnight on 12 May, and later the same day the two parties published the Conservative — Liberal Democrat coalition agreement setting out the terms of their deal.

In the Conservative — Liberal Democrat coalition agreement of 11 May 2010, the two parties formed a coalition government.

The Conservative — Liberal Democrat coalition agreement committed the coalition government to such a referendum.

Not exact matches

In the 2010 election manifestos, the Liberal Democrats, Labour and the Conservatives each promised to legislate and the coalition agreement included it as a firm proposal.

Both Cuomo and de Blasio have pledged to help Democrats regain full control of the Senate, helping broker a new coalition agreement with the mainline conference and the Independent Democratic Conference.

Politically, we will need to find points of agreement which bring together egalitarians, liberal republicans and social democrats, so as to build a powerful reform coalition.

It was in the coalition agreement that the Liberal Democrats would be permitted to look at alternatives to the «continuous at - sea deterrent», which the prime minister's spokesperson insisted yesterday ministers are completely committed to.

Firstly, the Tories are in Coalition and are, willy nilly, straitjacketed by the Coalition Agreement with the Liberal Democrats.

In a strongly worded letter, Vince Cable, Liberal Democrat MP for Twickenham and Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, has accused officials at the Department for Education, acting on behalf of the Secretary of State, Michael Gove, of breaking the Coalition Agreement, by intervening in a High Court case over inclusive admissions in religious schools.

Democrats need to win both races in order to gain a numerical majority in the chamber and move toward a coalition majority with the eight - member Independent Democratic Conference, based on agreement hammered out at the end of last year.

The coalition agreement, for example, seemed to reflect the Liberal Democrats» ideological position at least as much as it did the Conservatives».

Both Labour and the Liberal Democrats have ruled out a coalition with the SNP, but as Nicola Sturgeon notes, this does not rule out a confidence - and - supply or some other kind of still loser agreement.

- while believing that, given the inconclusive outcome of the General Election, the creation of the coalition and its policy programme as set out in the Coalition Agreement was the best available option for promoting Liberal Democrat policies and values during this Parcoalition and its policy programme as set out in the Coalition Agreement was the best available option for promoting Liberal Democrat policies and values during this ParCoalition Agreement was the best available option for promoting Liberal Democrat policies and values during this Parliament -

Given the math, a Kaminsky victory in April would not necessarily flip the majority back to Democrats unless new agreements were struck between mainline Democrats, the Independent Democratic Conference (which has a coalition with the GOP) and Simcha Felder, a Brooklyn Democrat who votes with the Republicans.

This allowed the Liberal Democrat leadership to argue that the party was getting the best deal it could from the coalition agreement.

«We will also ensure that provision is made for Liberal Democrat MPs to abstain on budget resolutions to introduce transferable tax allowances for married couples without prejudice to the coalition agreement,» it reads.

I draw his attention to section 21 of the coalition agreement, which says in respect of the incident to which I think he is referring, that «arrangements will be made to enable Liberal Democrat MPs to abstain in any vote.»

We compromised on that in the coalition agreement, and we have given the tools whereby that compromise might be taken forward, namely the setting up of the commission, to the leader of the Liberal Democrat party.

If we had been given a vote two years ago about whether we should enter the five year coalition agreement with the Liberal Democrats, I would probably have voted no.

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.

There is clearly — it is not rocket science this — no agreement between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrat parties in the coalition agreement to repeal that primary legislation.

Ed Miliband has said Labour would not form a coalition with the SNP, although he has left open the prospect of a confidence - and - supply agreement, or a minority coalition with the Liberal Democrats.

Liberal Democrats, who have already rejected such proposals, have limited tolerance for Conservatives who are increasingly ignoring the Coalition Agreement they signed up to.

But he seized the opportunity of forming a coalition with the Liberal Democrats to provide economic stability and to achieve and deliver a lot of Conservative policies under the Coalition Acoalition with the Liberal Democrats to provide economic stability and to achieve and deliver a lot of Conservative policies under the Coalition ACoalition Agreement.

Andy Burnham has used a dramatic and bad - tempered Commons debate to «develop an agreement» between Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs over the coalition's NHS reforms.

The legislation is sponsored in the Senate by David Carlucci, a member of the Independent Democratic Conference, a coalition of eight Democrats who have a power - sharing agreement with Republicans.

The act of creating a comprehensive coalition agreement — regardless of whether the Liberal Democrats were sold a pup was one of the factors that ought to have helped the coalition function smoothly, encompassing as it did the innovation of the «Quad» as the driver of the coalition and arbitrator of disagreements.

Even in the current coalition agreement between Merkel's conservatives and the center - left Social Democrats (SPD), the issue of «technical retrofitting» is treated with extreme care.

We accept that in drawing up the coalition agreement, a number of core Liberal Democrat policies had to be put to one side.

Last month, Klein and Governor Andrew Cuomo announced an agreement under which the I.D.C., which currently runs the Senate in coalition with the Republicans, will join with the regular Democrat conference after the November elections.

Despite the terse statement in the coalition agreement that «arrangements will be made to enable Liberal Democrat MPs to abstain in any vote» on proposals from Browne with which they disagree, numerous backbenchers - including the former leader Menzies Campbell - have let it be known that they plan to rebel if the party performs a U-turn in government on fees.

Senate Independent Democrat Conference Leader Jeff Klein, who rules the Senate in a coalition with the Republicans, spoke as the final agreement was being reached.

Klein on Monday moved away from forming a new coalition with the mainline conference of Democrats, declaring that «things have changed» since an agreement to do so was reached back in June (that includes primary challengers continuing to press on despite a ceasefire).

Klein — who has previously pointed out that the agreement to form a new coalition was contingent on Democrats achieving a full majority — also insisted there was no chance his conference would return to the mainline fold.

At the same time, there would be a handshake agreement that the coalition continue through 2016, a presidential election year, and when Democrats are expected to make gains in New York.

Klein on Monday hedged his bets on whether Democrats would be able to gain a clear majority in the Senate and appeared to edge away from an agreement made in June to form a new coalition with the mainline conference after Election Day.

A Conservative - Liberal Democrat coalition government will put a binding motion before the House of Commons in the first days following this agreement stating that the next general election will be held on the first Thursday of May 2015.

Mr Cameron was PM of a coalition of Conservative and Liberal Democrat MPs at the time of The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013, though neither the Conservative 2010 manifesto nor the Coalition Agreement mandated the government to intrcoalition of Conservative and Liberal Democrat MPs at the time of The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013, though neither the Conservative 2010 manifesto nor the Coalition Agreement mandated the government to intrCoalition Agreement mandated the government to introduce it.

The coalition agreement between the Conservatives and Mr Clegg's Liberal Democrats outlined political reforms including plans for five - year fixed - term parliaments, reforms to the House of Lords, powers for voters to recall their MP if found guilty of serious wrongdoing and a referendum on voting reforms.

I think it's clear that the coalition agreement committed the Liberal Democrat front bench to the boundary review, but others will doubtless disagree.

Of the 57 Liberal Democrat MPs, only two refused to support the Conservative Coalition agreement, with former leader Charles Kennedy and Manchester Withington MP John Leech both rebelling.

We strongly feel that non-Ministerial Liberal Democrats should vote to deliver party policy, to reinforce the Coalition Agreement's commitment to decarbonising the UK economy and to place the national interest ahead of party politics.

Nonetheless, the burden of compromise fell heaviest on the Liberal Democrats; and within the Programme for Government coalition agreement a significant number of their flagship policies were diluted (e.g. electoral reform), forestalled (e.g. House of Lords reform) or disregarded entirely (e.g. UK - wide federalism).

There is no basis for taking such decisions in Liberal Democrat policy, nor in the Coalition Agreement.

Both parties» ministers shared collective responsibility for the government's positions, although the coalition agreement detailed several issues on which the parties agreed to differ; the Liberal Democrats abstained from voting in such cases.

Conference regrets that some of the proposed reforms have never been Liberal Democrat policy, did not feature in our manifesto or in the Coalition agreement, which instead called for an end to large - scale top - down reorganisations.

Following the coalition agreement between the Scottish Liberal Democrats and Labour in the Scottish Parliament, he became Deputy Minister for Enterprise and Lifelong Learning.

«The Coalition Agreement commits the Government to bring forward «budget resolutions to introduce transferable tax allowances for married couples,» while allowing the Liberal Democrats to abstain on them.

The Liberal Democrats have agreed to the commission — the coalition agreement only rules out an extra runway for the south - east in this parliament.