Sentences with phrase «snp group»

The local SNP group welcomed the proposal but said the council should not axe school breakfast clubs.

Councillor Brian Lawson, SNP group leader, said: «Missed time at school is very hard to recover for youngsters who have fallen behind in lessons.

Chris McEleny, who leads the SNP group at Inverclyde Council, becomes the fourth candidate to put their name forward.

Salmond is relishing the prospect of returning to Westminster in the vanguard of a greatly strengthened SNP group.

On the prospects of retaining his role, Mr Robertson said: «It has been an honour to lead the Westminster SNP group for the last eight years and it would be an honour to continue as group leader of the record - sized SNP parliamentary party.

«I am grateful to have the support of deputy SNP leader Stewart Hosie MP, former first minister Alex Salmond MP and the encouragement from colleagues across the newly - elected SNP group.

Before the election, a meeting of the SNP group of six MPs could have been held in one of their offices and probably was.

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The leader of the SNP group on Inverclyde Council has dismissed the offer of new powers for the Scottish Parliament if the «no» vote carries at the independence referendum.

Not exact matches

Labour would need an agreement with the SNP in addition to a coalition with the Lib Dems, while the Tories would need to group together several smaller parties, probably including the DUP.

A secretive group is beginning campaigning in Scotland this week with a simple mission: stopping the SNP by encouraging tactical voting in the 2015 general election.

A secretive group is beginning campaigning in Scotland this week with a simple mission: stopping the SNP by encouraging tactical voting.

This group of voters became dissatisfied with the Westminster government during the Thatcher era, felt forgotten by New Labour, and voted Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) en - masse in the 2011 Scottish Parliament election.

Despite first minister Nicola Sturgeon's assurances that she doesn't want the law to change, the anti-abortion stance of leading SNP donor Brian Souter, whose charity reportedly donated to groups that try to «heal» women who have had abortions, is particularly troubling.

The SNP Westminster Group now works, as Winnie did, providing a strong, effective voice, protecting Scotland's interests.

Perhaps surprisingly, only 17 % of this group planned to vote for UKIP, suggesting that they are not quite the party of English Nationalism that Nigel Farage has suggested during the campaign.In Scotland, meanwhile, 56 % of those who considered themselves «strong Scottish Nationalists» planned to vote for the SNP, and just 19 % planned to vote Labour.

This week's general election focus group report comes from two Scottish seats which fell to the SNP in 2015 but could be competitive on 8 June: Edinburgh South West, and Aberdeen South.

Black, who is the SNP's youth campaign co-ordinator for the Scottish Parliament election, added: «It's troubling to see the latest polls showing that young people are much less likely to be certain to vote in the election than other age groups.

New figures show that Labour is considerably further behind the SNP with an age - group that is planning to turn out in force on May 7.

The entrenched dominance of the SNP as Scotland's political voice remains unchallenged when two MPs denied the whip during inquiries into alleged misdemeanours, Michelle Thomson and Natalie McGarry, make suspended Nationalists the second strongest grouping in country where Labour, the Libs and Cons boast a single MP each.

The SNP was accused of embedding government officials into the heart of family life today, after its plans for child guardians were attacked by parents and legal groups.

Whichever way you do the numbers, the centre - left grouping (get used to that sort of language) of Labour, the SNP, Plaid, the Greens, Respect and others is dominant.

From my conversations with people across the House of Commons, including the Liberal Democrats, the SNP, Caroline Lucas of the Greens and Conservatives such as Nick Hurd and Graham Stuart (chair of Globe, the international parliamentarians group on climate change), it is clear there is cross-party support.

But then in 2007 the party turned down the possibility of doing a deal with the SNP after the nationalists had narrowly pipped Labour for the prize of largest group at Holyrood.

Whilst failing to win any outright overall control in any council area in Scotland, the SNP emerged as the largest political group in sixteen councils, including Glasgow City Council, knocking the Scottish Labour Party out of power in Glasgow for the first time since 1980.

No less than 68 % of this group of Yes voting 2010 Labour supporters now say that they will vote SNP in May.

Conservatives — Monday 5th October — Elizabeth Truss MP, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and Geoffrey Clifton - Brown MP, Chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Shooting and Conservation SNP — Friday 16th October, Fergus Ewing MSP, Tourism Minister (to be confirmed)

White served as an SNP Parliamentary group whip in the first parliamentary session and sat on the parliament's Public Petitions Committee and Equal Opportunities Committee.

The more seats a party or grouping has, the more chance it has of forming a government - with 198 seats out of 646 the Conservative Party could only form a government if significant numbers of other MP's decided to back them, as happened in 1924 when there was a situation that the Conservatives didn't want to form a coalition with either other main party and equally the Liberals didn't want a coalition with Labour and the Liberals and Conservatives saw it as an opportunity to allow Labour into government but in a situation in which legislation was still reliant on Liberal and Conservative votes and they could be brought down at the most suitable time, supposing the notional gains were accurate and in the improbable event of the next election going exactly the same way in terms of votes then 214 out of 650 is 32.93 % of seats compared to at 198 out of 646 seats - 30.65 % of seats and the Conservative Party would then be 14 seats closer towards a total neccessary to form a government allowing for the greater number of seats, on the one hand the Conservatives need Labour to fail but equally they need to succeed themselves given that the Liberal Democrats appear likely to oppose anyone forming a government who does not embark on a serious programme to introduce PR, in addition PC & SNP would expect moves towards Independence for Scotland and Wales, the SDLP will be likely to back Labour and equally UKIP would want a committment to withdraw from Europe and anyway will be likely to be in small numbers if any, pretty much that leaves cutting a deal with the DUP which would only add the backing of an extra 10 - 13 MP's.

In February 2017, the Times described the European Research Group as «the most powerful opposition force in British politics», organising through a Whatsapp group with «a sense of discipline» which puts even the (famously disciplined) SNP «to shame&raGroup as «the most powerful opposition force in British politics», organising through a Whatsapp group with «a sense of discipline» which puts even the (famously disciplined) SNP «to shame&ragroup with «a sense of discipline» which puts even the (famously disciplined) SNP «to shame».

The announcement, which has reportedly been prepared for months following relentless focus group testing, took the Scottish National party (SNP) by surprise.

Speaking today, SNP MP Martin Docherty - Hughes said that this was further evidence of Leave groups working together: «It can only be explained by one person filling out multiple forms for different groups, and making the same mistake... The case that senior Leave members have to answer becomes more serious by the day.»

The SNP's Westminster group leader Angus Robertson branded the debate on the nuclear deterrent «one of the most important decision parliament will ever take».

Umunna said the group was primarily a grassroots organisation that would start preparing for a ground campaign, but its support base involves MPs from across the political spectrum, including Labour, Conservative, SNP, Lib Dem, Green and Plaid Cymru.

Some 49 Labour MPs joined a group including the SNP and Liberal Democrats in voting in support of the amendment tabled by former shadow cabinet minister Chuka Umunna.

Brendan O'Hara has resigned as the SNP Westminster group's spokesman for culture, media and sport.

The SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford had previously pressed Prime Minister Theresa May on Tory links to Cambridge Analytica's parent company, SCL Group.

Philippa Whitford, who joins 55 other SNP MPs in Westminster, the vast majority of them first - timers, was interviewed by the Guardian when she first announced her candidacy and made a prescient comment: «What strikes me is that, if we pull it off, this is going to be the most non-political group of politicians Westminster has seen for a long time.

SNP MPs must be among the few groups of travellers who fly into London Airport and wish they did have to go through passport control

Dr Lisa Cameron MP, Mental Health Spokesperson for the SNP and Chair of the All - Party Parliamentary Group on Psychology, will host and chair the event.

Japan, China, and the SNP Consortium — a public - private group seeking genetic differences among different versions of the human genome — are also adding to the pot.

Rather than measuring genetic changes directly (such as single nucleotide polymorphisms, otherwise known as SNPs), McKee and her group typically do RNA expression profiles on patients to see what genes are being expressed.

For these 3 SNPs, we report the ORs for use of aspirin, NSAIDs, or both across genotypes corresponding to 0, 1, or 2 copies of the variant allele (eTable 5 in the Supplement) and the ORs for each SNP by strata of use of aspirin, NSAIDs, or both with 1 common reference group (eTable 6 in the Supplement), to fully describe the interaction.

In my talk I will discuss my group's efforts to address these analysis challenges through modeling the electric current signal, leading to software for improved consensus calling, SNP calling and detecting base modifications like 5 - methylcytosine.

Inspired by the knowledge - based analysis methods developed for gene expression data analysis, we implemented methods for examining functionally - related SNPs as a group.

The analysis revealed three SNPs that were more common in the non-healing group than in the normal - healing group — hinting that their respective gene variants may somehow impair or fail to support fracture healing.

For example, in 2002, the International HapMap Project started charting SNPs among various ethnic groups.

His group developed sample and data tracking systems, automated sequence - assembly tools for the Human Genome Project and sequence variation analysis methods for the SNP Consortium Project and the International Haplotype Map Project.

In contrast, for Complete Genomics we find a significantly higher number of SNPs not being called on either allele (p = 2.076454e - 48 in a binomial test with probability 0.5 for each group).

Recently, groups have leveraged high - throughput gene expression and genotyping technologies to perform genome - wide assocation studies of gene expression, in which gene expression levels are considered a quantitative trait and significant correlations to SNP variation are identified.