Sentences with phrase «parliament after the general election»

He also claimed that the Tories» private polling last year, unlike the published polls which suggested a hung Parliament after the general election, pointed to a majority for David Cameron and the Conservatives.

If there is a hung parliament after a general election, then the Parliamentary arithmetic will be such that the Lib Dems will have everything to gain by holding out for full PR and everything to lose by settling for AV.

David Cameron is on course to lead the biggest party in a hung Parliament after the General Election -LSB--RSB-

As polls suggest there may be a hung parliament after the general election of 7 May, Scotland correspondent James Cook reports on the likely influence of the smaller political parties.

Not exact matches

The U.K. could suffer another ratings downgrade after a General Election led to a hung parliament, Moritz Kraemer, sovereign chief ratings officer at S&P Global, told CNBC on Friday.

The start of Brexit negotiations scheduled for June 19 is set to be delayed after a U.K. General Election produced a hung parliament on Friday morning.

Six months after an inconclusive general election, Spain just elected a new Parliament.

However, there are points in every parliament's lifecycle when no government can lay claim to such support — between parliamentary dissolution and a general election; after a general election and before the new government is formed; or when an incumbent government loses the confidence of parliament.

In a bid to head off Ukip's threat, David Cameron yesterday promised legal safeguards before the end of the current parliament to guarantee a referendum on the EU after the general election.

Badenoch, who joined the Conservative party after the 2005 general election, first stood for parliament in 2010.

«If the result of the May 7th general election is not clear cut, the days immediately after it should not be characterised by a private fix by the party leaders, where newly elected members of parliament and their parties are bypassed,» Allen says.

After becoming the member of parliament for Redcar at the May 2015 general election, Turley was appointed as a member of the Home Affairs Select Committee in July 2015.

While the Manchester devolution agreement has been signed, most of these issues will now be kicked into the long grass until after the general election — and no parliament can bind its successor.

In truth, the general election after this one may be the most critical, for if a new group of politicians come into Parliament, and the public, after five years, sense that little has changed, then public attitudes to politics and politicians may plummet still further.

After all, Conservative governments went into both the 1992 and 1997 general elections by announcing sharp expenditure restraint for the following Parliament, thus forcing the Labour opposition to either reject or accept those overall spending targets.

And to those who complain of a «zombie Parliament» with no characters in the House of Commons, there's a good chance the Commons will include those shy, introverted types Alex Salmond, Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage after the general election.

After the 2009 European Parliament elections, only 28 % of UKIP voters in the BES survey said they were planning on voting UKIP again at the next general election.

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.

There has been roughly a month of introspection after the National Democratic Congress» (NDC) defeat in the 2016 general elections, and the Member of Parliament for the Wa Central constituency, Rashid Pelpuo, believes Ghanaians may have taken John Mahama for granted.

Optimism that parliament's reputation could be rescued after the general election, when one of the biggest new intakes is expected, is not worth pursuing, however.

12:08 - If Brown's so confident why doesn't he do «what Margaret Thatcher did, and Tony Blair did, after four years of a parliament, and call a general election?»

The former Dulwich and West Norwood MP, who stood down at the general election after 20 years in Parliament, earned widespread plaudits for the role she played in London's bid for the 2012 Olympics and her subsequent performance as Olympics minister.

Jeremy Corbyn said the face of British politics had changed and called on Theresa May to resign after her snap general election left Britain with a hung parliament 11 days before Brexit talks begin.

Wilson formed a minority government in March 1974 after the general election on 28 February ended in a hung parliament.

This finding - which underlines the increased danger of a hung parliament after the next General Election - reflects the positive impact of boundary changes on Tory prospects.

He made clear that after five years of austerity, the squeeze on the public sector will have to continue beyond the general election and into the next parliament to rebuild the public finances.

In advance of the publication of a ConservativeHome poll on party members» attitudes to co-operation with the Liberal Democrats he suggests that Britain may be heading for a hung parliament after the next General Election.

After winning 56 seats in parliament, the SNP became the second biggest opposition party for the first time after the 2015 general elecAfter winning 56 seats in parliament, the SNP became the second biggest opposition party for the first time after the 2015 general elecafter the 2015 general election.

Susan Elan Jones (born 1 June 1968 [1]-RRB- is a British Labour Party politician, who was elected at the 2010 general election as the Member of Parliament for Clwyd South, replacing the previous Labour MP Martyn Jones after his retirement.

The Political and Constitutional Reform Committee of the UK Parliament published a Select Committee Publications on the «Lessons from the process of Government formation after the 2010 General Election».

«Since 1979, no opposition party has gone on to win a general election after being behind in the first set of local council elections in the parliament.

The NDC lost the Walewale parliamentary seat in the 2012 general election to the New Patriotic Party (NPP); the NDC again lost the Kumbungu seat to the Convention People's Party (CPP) in a bye - election held in 2013 after Alhaji Mohammed Mumuni, the then sitting NDC Member of Parliament (MP), resigned from Parliament to take up an international position.

My fall - back hope is that if it's to be just AV at a referendum after the general election, that might still be enough to encourage the reawakening of some kind of anti-Tory coalition, with Cameron revealed as the democratic dinosaur he clearly is — enough to deliver at least a hung parliament.

Assuming there is no reform before the end of this parliament, any further lists — which traditionally get drawn up before and after a general election — could easily take the total over 1,000.

A record number of MPs stood down at the United Kingdom general election of 2010, meaning they were Members of Parliament (MPs) in the 54th parliament, but chose not to contest the 2010 general election (in some cases after being deselected by theirParliament (MPs) in the 54th parliament, but chose not to contest the 2010 general election (in some cases after being deselected by theirparliament, but chose not to contest the 2010 general election (in some cases after being deselected by their parties).

Parliament was dissolved on 25 September and after three weeks of campaigning the general election took place on 15 October.

Thereafter they will be contacted during the 2015 UK general elections and after the Scottish Parliament election in 2016.

Young was elected to parliament at the February 1974 general election as MP for Acton with a majority of 1,300, defeating the sitting Labour Party MP, Nigel Spearing (who was returned to Parliament a few weeks later after winning a by - election in Newhparliament at the February 1974 general election as MP for Acton with a majority of 1,300, defeating the sitting Labour Party MP, Nigel Spearing (who was returned to Parliament a few weeks later after winning a by - election in NewhParliament a few weeks later after winning a by - election in Newham South).

This regime collapsed within a year, after May reversed her previous public pledges and called a general election (which Jeremy Corbyn's Labour agreed to under the terms of the Fixed Term Parliament Act).

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has won a fourth term in office after a general election that has surged an overtly nationalist party to enter parliament for the first time in decades.

Gove entered the House of Commons after the 2005 general election having been elected as the Conservative member of parliament for the seat of Surrey Heath, after the incumbent MP Nick Hawkins was deselected by the local Conservative Association.

if, after a vote of no confidence, a government can not be formed within 14 days, parliament will be dissolved and a general election held.

It is likely that after the General Election there will be more SNP members of parliament sitting in Westminster whose concern will be Scotland and not what is best for England.

The wash - up period is the last few days while a Parliament of the United Kingdom continues to sit after the Prime Minister has announced the date when Parliament will be dissolved so a general election can be held but before Parliament has been formally adjourned, prorogued or dissolved.

Northern Ireland's political parties have started their campaigns after the Westminster Parliament was formally dissolved and the general election campaign officially begun.

In February 1974 — the last instance of a hung parliament following a general election — Labour won 301 seats and the Conservatives 297, but the then Tory prime minister, Edward Heath, remained at Downing Street until the Monday after the election as he tried to form an alliance with the Liberals.

Beamish's daughter, Claudia Hamilton Beamish, after standing for the South of Scotland in the 2003 and 2007 Scottish Parliament elections and for Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale at the 2010 general election was elected Scottish Labour Party Member of the Scottish Parliament, representing the South of Scotland under the list system on 5 May 2011.

Davey lost his Kingston and Surbiton seat at the 2015 election but returned to parliament after the last general election.

The Fixed - term Parliaments Act 2011 introduced fixed - term parliaments to the United Kingdom, with elections scheduled on the first Thursday in May of the fifth year after the previous generaParliaments Act 2011 introduced fixed - term parliaments to the United Kingdom, with elections scheduled on the first Thursday in May of the fifth year after the previous generaparliaments to the United Kingdom, with elections scheduled on the first Thursday in May of the fifth year after the previous general election.

In July 2006, shortly after the creation of a new Chippenham county constituency, Hames was selected as his party's first candidate for it, [4] and his success at the 2010 general election gave Wiltshire its first Liberal member of parliament in 86 years.