Sentences with phrase «democrat coalition partners»

The Communications Data Bill is supposedly dead in the water during the current Parliament — the Conservatives» Liberal Democrat coalition partners refuse to allow it — but the key elements are found in the amendments to the Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill, which is in its latter stages of development.

The prime minister has held talks with the Chancellor George Osborne and his Liberal Democrat coalition partners to seek agreement on next week's budget.

In a sign of increasing tensions between Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition partners, Bernard Jenkin, chair of the Commons public administration committee, said: «If the politics of envy made a country rich, we'd be very rich... Most rich people are contributing far more in tax than other people.»

Their Liberal Democrat coalition partners were opposed, but have agreed to support the Conservatives» plans in government.

Despite the views of some of his party members, it seems that five years of meetings with other European leaders and maybe even his time rubbing shoulders with Liberal Democrat coalition partners might just have changed Cameron's outlook.

However, this overtly nationalist approach is likely to be constrained by his Liberal Democrat coalition partners, who are far more European and internationally - minded.

In a sign of increasing tensions between Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition partners, Bernard Jenkin, the chair of the Commons public administration committee, said: «If the politics of envy made a country rich, we'd be very rich... Most rich people are contributing far more in tax than other people.»

Tensions within the Tory party about the compromises being made by ministers with their Liberal Democrat coalition partners have already sparked concern.

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.

I would suggest that key areas would be the economy and the NHS — which would need to be key U-turns for a possible Liberal Democrat coalition partners, though ones that might reflect the decisions made by their conferences better than their performance in government has done.

These were previously blocked by their former Liberal Democrat coalition partners because of the failure to secure House of Lords reform.

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.

However, the EU's determination to stabilise the Eurozone as the Greek debt crisis deepened in 2011 with the treaty - based «Fiscal Compact» caused an early rift, not only with Merkel and other EU leaders but also with his Liberal Democrat coalition partners.

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.

Not exact matches

Martin Schulz, the head of Merkel's current junior coalition partner, the Social Democrats (SPD), also laid into the auto industry on the weekend, slamming «irresponsible managers» that have not invested in electric cars as they should.

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.

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).

Though the German government is notionally committed to the alliance's 2 - percent defense - spending target, it only spent 1.2 percent of its GDP on defense last year — an amount her coalition partners, the Social Democrats, and more than half the German public oppose increasing.

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.

Mr Hague and Mr Cameron are constrained by his coalition partners, the Liberal Democrats, whose pro-European stance effectively blocks a British referendum on the EU during this parliament.

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.

A surge in Ukip's support, combined with an expected bloodbath for the Liberal Democrats, could leave the eurosceptic party with more seats than the coalition partner.

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 coalition partners were hammered at the polls last night, with the Tories falling to fifth place in Rotherham, and the Liberal Democrats coming eighth.

Major losses for the Liberal Democrats could see Ukip emerge with more councillors than the coalition partner.

He needed to boost Liberal Democrat performance, especially in the party's existing seats; set out his post-election strategy to the country and potential coalition partners; and save his own seat, currently under threat according to recent polls.

If people on the centre left leave the Liberal Democrats in droves (something which, a small trickle notwithstanding, does not appear to be happening), then the junior coalition partner will be weakened and will struggle to hold its own in the inevitable battles for the heart and soul of the coalition government over the next few years.

After their rout in the elections and referendum, the Liberal Democrats now talk privately about «identity issues» where they diverge from the Tories, to remind voters they are a separate party, and «unity issues» on which they strongly support their Coalition partner.

The third partner in Germany's governing coalition, the Liberal Democrats, have long been fighting for tax equality for homosexual couples.

That # 2.5 bn is a fraction of what the Tories» coalition partners, the Liberal Democrats, wanted to extract from the banks.

[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.

Their performance stands in stark contrast with that of their coalition partners the Liberal Democrats, who lost roughly a third of their councillors.

It was the price they demanded, this time last year, for allowing their junior coalition partners, the Liberal Democrats, a referendum on the alternative vote.

Senior Liberal Democrats have expressed «shock» and «disgust» at the campaign being run by their coalition partners in the No to AV camp.

The Liberal Democrats remain on 7.5 points, roughly where they've been all month, so there seems to be no evidence of a Budget bounce as far as the other coalition partner is concerned.

«We will continue working as coalition partners in the days to come to avoid unnecessary distractions and strengthen our mutual efforts to elect more Democrats and enact the progressive agenda that remains incomplete.»

But that # 2.5 bn is a fraction of what the Tories» coalition partners, the Liberal Democrats, wanted to extract from the banks.

Even before the result was announced, Positive Slovenia's coalition partners the Social Democrats, Civic List and Democratic Party of Retired Persons of Slovenia had said they would dissolve the coalition if Bratušek was defeated, so the country appears to have entered a period of upheaval.

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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.

Meanwhile, Labour would focus on the Liberal Democrats as potential coalition partner.

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.

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.

In 2010 the Liberal Democrats became a partner in a coalition and had a referendum on a form of voting that tends to produce results closer to proportional representation.

Their most likely coalition partners, the Liberal Democrats, this week said they would not support a referendum on independence.

The party had a mixed performance in the north of England - mostly bad - and failed to offset those setbacks in the south against the Liberal Democrats, who managed to hold their own against their senior coalition partners.

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.

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg indicates he has strong differences of opinion with his Tory coalition partners over free schools in England.

But the trouncing of the Liberal Democrats means that Tory MPs no longer have to be on their best behaviour - they no longer have to be careful not to alienate coalition partners with their words and deeds.