Sentences with phrase «liberal democrats after»

Nick Clegg has resigned as leader of the Liberal Democrats after his party was reduced from 57 to eight MPs in the general election.

Vince Cable is on the verge of becoming leader of the Liberal Democrats after former energy secretary Ed Davey ruled himself out of the running.

Lord Rennard warned that he may sue the Liberal Democrats after the party suspended him in the row over whether he had sexually harassed female activists.

The second is whether the Conservative Party should try to prolong the coalition with the Liberal Democrats after the next election (and work to that end before it).

The last review, between 2011 and 2013, was aborted by the Liberal Democrats after the Conservatives failed to support House of Lords reform.

The 40 - year - old MP for Sheffield Hallam replaces Sir Menzes Campbell as leader of the Liberal Democrats after beating Chris Huhne in a closely - fought leadership race.

Nick Clegg has resigned as leadrer of the Liberal Democrats after the party suffered their worst General Election collapse in years.

Paddy Ashdown is to stand down as leader of the Liberal Democrats after the European elections in June and as MP for Yeovil at the next general election, the party announced today.

Liberal Democrats after the election: a left of centre party which should be able to work more easily with Labour than the Conservatives

With a week to go to voting, we have been sent the response from the Liberal Democrats after Baby Milk Action member, Melissa Wadams, contacted them.

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«The secrecy of the B.C. Liberal government is only damaging the trust British Columbians have that the ministry is looking after our wilderness,» said New Democrat spokesperson for mining Norm Macdonald.

«Premier Christy Clark and the B.C. Liberals briefly swooped into Likely several days after the tailings pond failure assuring the town everything was all right, but then disappeared as the bad news rolled in,» said New Democrat leader John Horgan.

«The net result of the Liberals» carbon trust shell game is that year after year money gets drained from classrooms and emergency rooms without any resulting efficiency gains while big polluters like Encana get a free ride funded by our healthcare and education systems,» said New Democrat environment critic Rob Fleming.

Freedom of Information requests filed by the New Democrat Official Opposition have revealed that the Christy Clark Liberal government reduced youth addiction treatment spaces by 25 percent after promising in the 2013 election to build more spaces.

Nineteen Liberal, New Democrat, and Progressive Conservative MLAs voted in favour of the motion, but it failed after 31 PC and Wildrose MLAs stood up and voted against it.

In the legislature, Trevena and fellow New Democrats pressed the B.C. Liberals for answers after an economic impact study by the City of Prince Rupert found that the government's ferry service cuts could cause «serious and widespread damage to the northern B.C. economy.»

VICTORIA — A plan to cut chemotherapy services for cancer patients in Nanaimo that was reversed only after public outcry shows B.C. Liberal cuts are leading to bad policy decisions that will hurt patients, say New Democrats.

The diagnosis forced some immediate changes — «not all bad,» concedes Dix, now 48, seemingly poised to return B.C. to the New Democrats after more than a decade of Liberal rule.

VICTORIA — As Premier Christy Clark hosts Canada's premiers in Vancouver, New Democrats are challenging her to clarify the Liberals» support for the Enbridge pipeline after B.C. signed on to a national energy plan that lays the groundwork for the pipeline to push ahead.

CRANBROOK — Local workers need a premier who will fight for a fair softwood lumber agreement after years of neglect from Christy Clark and the B.C. Liberals, said B.C. New Democrat Leader John Horgan.

VICTORIA — After 16 years of neglect from Christy Clark and the B.C. Liberals, families are struggling to find safe, affordable places to live says B.C. New Democrat Leader John Horgan.

«After 16 years of Christy Clark and the B.C. Liberals, women and children who have suffered violence are waiting too long for help,» said New Democrat Leader John Horgan.

SURREY — After years of promises and delay, the Liberal government must move forward with a much - need community court for Surrey, say the New Democrats.

Premier's Political Editor says there's no chance of the coalition government falling apart after the resignation of a Liberal Democrat Home Office minister.

Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron has for the first time declared that he is pro-choice after reports... More

Outgoing Liberal Democrat leader has revealed he decided to quit his position two weeks into the 2017 General Election campaign after repeatedly facing questions...

Outgoing Liberal Democrat leader has revealed he decided to quit his position two weeks into the 2017 General Election campaign after repeatedly facing questions over whether he believed gay sex was a sin.

Lib Dem foreign affairs spokesman Ed Davey was expelled from the Commons after declaring the ruling was «outrageous» and his fellow Liberal Democrats walked out in protest.

12:24 - Right - after a question on families from a Labour MP, it's time for Ian Swales - the improbable Liberal Democrat MP from Redcar - who invites Cameron to comment on councils thinking of turning down the government's offered council tax freeze.

The government said it will seek to reduce the number of empty homes maintained by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) after the Liberal Democrats claimed it was wasting more than # 25 million a year on unoccupied properties.

Democrats and their liberal allies are pushing Gov. Andrew Cuomo to unify the party in the state Senate, a day after declaring victory in a Long Island race.

The staunch opposition comes after Cuomo has been able to get the Senate GOP, now in a governing coalition with four independent Democrats, to hold votes on a variety of liberal causes, most recently the gun control law in January.

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.

Government to reduce level of empty military homes after Liberal Democrats claim one in five family homes are empty.

The Liberal Democrats came sixth with just 474 votes, after left - wing party Solidarity, who had former MSP Tommy Sheridan as their candidate.

On purely constitutional issues, the best combination for any coalition after the election would seem to be Labour and the Liberal Democrats.

There has been a 35 per cent rise in the number of under - 18s admitted to A&E after binge drinking, parliamentary questions by the Liberal Democrats revealed.

Nick Clegg was accused of trying «every trick in the book» to distance himself from his record today, after he made a keynote speech describing the Liberal Democrats as the only genuine party of the middle ground.

The Liberal Democrats have walked out of the House of Commons after their calls for a referendum on Europe were rejected.

Liberal Democrat MP Lembit Opik complained to the Commons authorities after his name was missed off the online version of Hansard.

Leader of the House Harriet Harman announced the decision today, after requests from senior Liberal Democrats.

«Picture it: history in the making as a Liberal Democrat leader entered, finally, into the corridors of power, preparing to unshackle Britain after years of Labour and Conservative rule.

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg faced stiff opposition on the weekend after he refused to categorically stand behind abolishing tuition fees in the future - previously a key Lib Dem education policy.

The SNP unveiled their «family - friendly» policies today, after Labour and the Liberal Democrats made their own commitments to families yesterday.

After years of perennial complaints from the press about the stage - managed nature of party conferences, even the Liberal Democrats have taken bold steps to make interviews with the press even more predictable.

Richmond MP Susan Kramer has been embarrassed after her local party were forced to return four donations made to the Liberal Democrats by her son.

After 500 days in government, Liberal Democrats have even more reason to feel uncertain now than they did 12 months ago.

Liberal Democrats went on a full media offensive yesterday in an attempt to show they are against the «Torification» of the schools system, after the education secretary confirmed he would replace Ofsted's chair Sally Morgan when the contract expires this autumn.

After five years of coalition, last Thursday's results remind us how far Labour and the Liberal Democrats» fortunes are co-dependent — and their attacks on each other self - defeating.

The IDC is rebuffing calls for unity from Democrats and liberal pressure groups to re-join the mainline conference of Democrats in the state Senate — calls that have intensified after the election of Brian Benjamin, who gives Democrats a numerical majority in the chamber.