Sentences with phrase «democrat coalition colleagues»

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Assembly Democrats subsequently put out a statement that essentially agreed with the coalition and expressed hope that their legislative colleagues across the aisle would act accordingly.

Shortly before Christmas and as Liberal Democrat Lords rampaged against the Cameron - Clegg compromise on secret courts, he remarked to one colleague that the «coalition had already broken down» in the House of Lords.

The independent Democrats, who split with their mainline colleagues in 2011, say that their coalition with the Republicans allows them to push for progressive policies, but the arrangement has been criticized by Democrats in New York and beyond, particularly after Mr. Trump's election.

Diane Abbott's criticism of her Labour colleagues for exploring the possibilities of a «progressive coalition» with the Liberal Democrats is based on a series of outdated assumptions, and her reference to 1931 is way off - beam (Comment, 11 May).

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.

Some of Valesky's IDC colleagues are facing more push - back — such as losing key political endorsements — from fellow Democrats who are angry the breakaway group forged a coalition with Senate Republicans to jointly run the upper chamber.