Sentences with phrase «labour formed a government»

The Prime Minister said the General Election was «not a time to send a message or make a protest» but to stop Ed Miliband and Labour forming a government.

If Labour formed a government then party funding could be cleaned up on all sides, but the election is not yet in the bag.

Over 80 % of those voters disappeared under Tony Blair's leadership — that is, by 2005, when Labour formed a government with just 35 % of the vote, the lowest share of any successful party in the history of British democracy.

Not exact matches

Following the election, the Labour Party and New Zealand First formed a coalition government with support from the Green Party.

Another cause has been the insidious notion (greatly encouraged by successive governments but particularly under New Labour - Old Labour tended to be much more traditional in its views on the family) that the family has many forms, that marriage is just one option, and that lone parenting is just as «valid» (dread word) a form as any other.

«If it becomes clear that the national interest which is stable and principled government can be best served by forming a coalition between the Labour party and the Liberal democrats, then I believe I should discharge that duty to form that government which would in my view command a majority in the House of Commons in the Queen's Speech and any other confidence votes.

The Labour Party can form a government if they can get a working majority either through forming a coalition or through a «confidence and supply» deal.

Raising the electoral mountain Labour would need to climb to form a Government, exercising minority or coalition rule let alone governing with a majority, is an unexpected gift for the fifth largest force in UK politics: Momentum.

Local government formed one of the devolved powers and the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004 was introduced by a coalition Scottish Executive formed between the Labour party and the Liberal democrats.

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.

The point for all sensible democrats to hang on to is that if the centre - left (Labour plus LibDems and perhaps Greens and some of the nationalists) together command a majority of Commons seats, that entitles them to form a government led by the leader of the largest centre - left party.

The worry I have is that Cameron will form a minority government and Labour will abstain and let him.

If the forecasters and betting markets are right in their central forecasts then Con + LD+DUP combined will be short of a majority and so a Labour led government should form if they can secure the support of the SNP and probably others, including the Liberal Democrats, will be needed too: a potentially messy and unstable situation but also one where there is sufficient similarity in ideological perspective for policy agreement on plenty of issues.

They have long memories in Buck House and they still smart from the constitutional crisis that ensued when the governor - general of Australia, John Kerr, dismissed the Labour administration of Gough Whitlam in 1975 and invited Liberal leader Malcolm Fraser to form a government.

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.

So let us imagine the Lib Dems do vote Labour down and a Tory minority government forms.

They have long formed part of the benefit system in various guises, with tens of thousands of sanctions handed out under the last Labour government as unemployment rose amid the financial crisis.

The LibDems shouldn't go within a million miles of the Labour party, which has formed an incredibly nasty, authoritarian and incompetent government.

That's why the central task of the whole Labour party, must be to rebuild trust and support to win the next general election and form the next government.

The Scottish Labour leadership contest this autumn is important for the entire Labour Party in Britain, because how the party performs in Scotland will be a significant factor in whether Labour can form the next UK government.

But those ten pledges the core of the platform on which I was re-elected leader will now form the framework for what Labour will campaign for and for what a Labour government will do.

[100] Miliband subsequently unveiled five pledges at a rally in Birmingham which would form the focus of a future Labour government, specifically identifying policies on deficit reduction, living standards, the NHS, immigration controls and tuition fees.

How can I support a Labour leader who doesn't want to form a Labour government when working people, the old, the young, the poor, the country, need a Labour government above everything?

The other two envisioned Miliband as prime minister: one had the Tories on 270 to 285, unable to form a government; the other had Labour with slightly more votes than the Tories, but with slightly fewer, or the same, number of seats.

He was reputed to favour a Lib - Lab deal and, given his SDP background, was a member of Labour's negotiation team that attempted to form a government with the Liberal Democrats.

If it did happen my guess is that the Lib Dems would probably choose to stay outside and let Labour form a minority government.

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

We also know that you and other forecasters give Labour a near zero chance of forming a majority government — in reality, without the backing of the SNP.

At the moment though, Labour's only option might be to form a perilous minority government, but nothing more.

Labour will not be able to form a government in Wales after Plaid Cymru followed the Liberal Democrats» lead and pulled out of coalition talks.

Labour remains the single largest party in Wales but, with 22 seats at present, will not be able to form a government without coalition support.

It's very clear to me that we are heading for an early general election and the Labour party must be ready to form a government.

Only when these negotiations failed did Heath resign, and Labour, the largest party by five seats, was invited to form the next government.

Arguments over the legal basis of moves to force a living wage on the private sector appeared to form part of a broader government move to distance Whitehall from Labour's ideas.

The Liberal Democrats have pulled out of coalition talks to form a Welsh government, reopening the possibility of a Labour - led government.

Later this morning Corbyn gave a speech in Dagenham where he unveiled wide - ranging policy that will form the basis of a Labour manifesto for government under his leadership, including # 500bn of public spending.

While I am the first to admit that the Labour Party's prospects of forming a government in the near future are not propitious, I know that the party will eventually emerge from its internecine struggle and present itself ready for government — as it has done after every period of civil war in its history.

The latest opinion polls suggest the Scottish National Party could edge Labour out of government and form an alliance with the Liberal Democrats to govern the Scottish parliament.

The first elections for the Scottish parliament were held in 1999 and resulted in the Liberal Democrats forming a coalition government with Labour from its establishment until 2007.

Labour insists that it will vote for a post-legislative referendum at some point in the debates, forming another possible point of Labour alliance with dissenting Tory MPs to defeat the government.

Shadow Defence Secretary Clive Lewis said that under the first past the post voting system, Labour will struggle to form a government without the backing of other left - leaning parties.

Following the election of Tony Blair as Labour leader in July 1994 after the death of his predecessor John Smith, Ashdown pursued co-operation between the two parties because he wanted to form a coalition government should the next general election end without any party having an overall majority.

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.

This would enable a Labour government to claim that there was no new funding to political parties, but also end any form of direct communication between Labour and its supporters in large swathes of rural and Tory Britain.

While it may later revive electoral reform should it fail to win a majority in 2020, Labour may decide not to adopt pre-emptive commitments on this issue before first testing the water to see if it can form a single - party government.

All the signs are that Labour can form a majority government in 2015.

These changes would constitute a massive shift in how the UK is governed and is likely to be heavily resisted by the Labour party as it would place huge and possibly terminal restrictions on their powers should they form the next government in 2015.

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

Alex Salmond is still struggling to form a government, as Labour increasingly position themselves as a back - up administration if Mr Salmond is unable form his own.