Sentences with phrase «lib coalition talks»

Andrew Adonis's insider account of the Lab - Lib coalition talks provides a vivid and vital, and often surprising, insight into the crucial politics of the day — and is also particularly relevant to the prospects for both parties after the 2015 general election.

Not exact matches

Labour originally sought to form a coalition with Plaid Cymru and the Liberal Democrats, but this collapsed after Mike German's Lib Dems pulled out of talks.

Sir Alan writes of the two major political events to occur during his time as Berwick MP; the merger with the Social Democrat Party in 1988 and the talks between Paddy Ashdown and Tony Blair over a possible Lib - Lab coalition.

Incidentally commentators talk about the maths not stacking up with a Lib / Lab coalition but if Cameron does not secure a government the Conservatives will be in chaos within months...

Coalition talks are on the agenda again at the moment as Andrew Adonis, a prominent Labour supporter of an alliance with the Lib Dems, publicises his new book Five Days In May: The Coalition And Beyond.

Though his manifesto launch offered voters a deft soundbite - Lib Dems will give Labour brains and the Tories heart - Clegg has struck an uncertain note this week, sometimes sounding as if he would prefer to lose than enter coalition talks with Miliband.

In an interview with the Guardian, the MP for Hull West and Hessle said that when the Lib Dems came to talk to Labour in May 2010, just after the general election resulted in the first hung parliament in 36 years, he believed the two parties would form a coalition.

In May 2010, many voters and MPs believed that the talks between the Conservative and Lib Dem leaderships and the coalition agreement was a triumph of real - time diplomacy and spontaneous statesmanship, but as D'Ancona shows clearly, it owed everything to the strategic preparations undertaken by Cameron and Clegg before the election.

What is confi rmed, and supported by other accounts, is that both the Lib Dems and (perhaps surprisingly) the Conservatives were well prepared to enter into talks about coalition, while Labour gave the impression that they hadn't really lost the election.

Tellingly Simon Hughes has also talked of a possible future Lib Lab Coalition, with Ed Miliband responding positively, although pointedly saying that any future coalition deal could only be struck with a new Liberal Democrat leader in place, in other words, not NiCoalition, with Ed Miliband responding positively, although pointedly saying that any future coalition deal could only be struck with a new Liberal Democrat leader in place, in other words, not Nicoalition deal could only be struck with a new Liberal Democrat leader in place, in other words, not Nick Clegg.

Raising the personal income tax allowance will be a key Lib Dem demand in any coalition talks after the 2015 election, the party says.

Talks about a coalition begin between the Lib Dems and SNP but the idea is eventually dropped by the Lib Dems.

As coalition talks have progressed, the romantic allusions have increased, with the maidenly Lib Dems wooed by competing beaus who may or may not end up resorting to a pistol duel to conclude their suit.

Now, don't get me wrong, senior Labour MPs were quite vehemently opposed to talks of a coalition between the Lib - Dems and Labour.

It has been just six months since the general election and the creation of a coalition government that will profoundly change the way in which we live - and already we are being offered a jabber of competing interpretations of what happened during those five days of talks between the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives and the Lib Dems and Labour.

The book, which makes extensive use of a near - verbatim record of the talks kept by long - serving Lib Dem aide Alison Suttie, marks Mr Laws's return to the political limelight following his shock resignation from the Cabinet just weeks into the Coalition.

The Lib Dems have been in talks about forming a coalition government following the results of last week's general election which saw no party gain a parliamentary majority.

Mr Campbell, victim of a coded kicking in the book, had counterstruck this very day, in this very newspaper, by calling Mandelson a liar, or manager, over an arcane point regarding the Lib - Lab coalition talks he attended.

David Laws, a Lib Dem minister in the coalition government, was also on the Today programme talking about the Windrush fiasco.

None of this is necessarily fatal to the government's plans — people about the Lib Dem leadership are talking about these votes being advisory, rather than binding — but, at the very least, they increase the headwinds that Mr Clegg, and the Coalition, are operating against.

At this special Guardian Live event at the Lib Dem annual conference, Clegg talks candidly to the Observer's chief political commentator, Andrew Rawnsley, about the difficulties of coalition government and the fallout of 2015.

The prime minister also revealed that the Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg had asked to begin formal coalition talks with Labour.

Goldie made the best of a bad job in declaring the Scots Conservatives would have nothing to do with coalitions - the SNP are constitutionally unable to work with Conservatives, a coalition with Labour beyond anything but a national emergency and the Scots Lib Dems would only talk to us in the direst of situations.

Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg has held behind - closed - doors talks with his MPs in an attempt to gain their backing ahead of coalition talks with the Tories.