Sentences with phrase «may coalition talks»

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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.

But if May has not secured a deal with another party by Monday morning, there will be pressure on her to call off the talks, particularly if Labour can show it can form a coalition with other parties to form a working majority and send Corbyn into Downing Street as Prime Minister.

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.

Others may vote Liberal Democrat even if it's a hopeless cause locally, because they'll want to boost Nick Clegg's share of the national vote to boost his moral authority in any coalition talks.

The delayed return of parliament may allow extended coalition talks, but the real purpose is to allow the many new MPs and ministers to settle in.

[87] On 10 May 2010, after talks to form a coalition with the Liberal Democrats broke down, Brown announced his intention to stand down as Leader before the Labour Party Conference but a day later resigned as both Prime Minister and party leader.

In Westminster the coalition's secret talks, backbench mutterings and Labour suspicions are set to continue all the way up to the vote which may, or may not, actually happen.

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.

Cameron's comments suggest the Tories may now be prepared to put reform of the voting system on the table in coalition talks, rather than allow the issue to be a «deal breaker».

In third place is an article which looked at Ed Miliband's talks with a coalition of MPs over the need for Theresa May to explain to the Commons how parliament will be involved in her plans to leave the EU.

Liberal Democrat MP David Laws was at the heart of talks with the Conservatives and Labour as a Coalition Government deal was thrashed out against the clock in May.

What you are talking about — more efficient, faster impact assessments that continue to be environmentally prudent — MAY be possible, but they absolutely won't come about under an Abbot led coalition.

«Everybody I talk to is sick,» says Mays, who helped launch the activist group Coalition for Clean Water.

The statement by the global coalition of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) urges Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) states to continue the talks they started in May 2014 on questions raised by the emerging technology of «lethal autonomous weapons systems.»