Sentences with phrase «snp majority government»

Not exact matches

With neither Labour nor the Conservatives likely to be capable of forming a majority government and given the SNP's fragmented unionist opponents north of the border, Britain's first - past - the - post electoral system could allow Nicola Sturgeon's party to exact a high price for support of a government in the Commons.

If the forecasters and betting markets are right in their central forecasts then Con + LD+DUP combined will be short of a majority and so a Labour led government should form if they can secure the support of the SNP and probably others, including the Liberal Democrats, will be needed too: a potentially messy and unstable situation but also one where there is sufficient similarity in ideological perspective for policy agreement on plenty of issues.

Labour's Angela Eagle described the plan as a cynical attempt by a government with an overall majority of just 12 to use procedural trickery to manufacture a very much larger one by knocking the SNP out of select votes.

We also know that you and other forecasters give Labour a near zero chance of forming a majority government — in reality, without the backing of the SNP.

Sturgeon requires the continuing support of unionist voters, happy to back the SNP in government if not to endorse their view on the future of the UK, if she is to repeat her party's trick of winning an overall majority in a parliament elected under a system that's part first - past - the - post and part proportional representation.

Following the 2011 elections to the Scottish Parliament, and the resulting SNP majority, the Scottish Government announced its intent to hold an independence referendum in 2014.

Scotland has its own party system (with the Scottish National Party (SNP) currently running a majority government), its own Parliament and its own executive arrangements, so that a different set of pressures exert themselves here.

«We are focused on winning a Labour majority government and let me say this - we do not want, we do not need and we do not plan to have any coalition with the SNP, we plan to make sure that we focus on the issues and win a Labour majority government.»

The SNP were unable to negotiate a majority coalition government with any other party, but as no other combination of parties were able to agree a deal, the SNP chose to form a one - party minority government, with confidence and supply support from the Scottish Green Party and the Scottish Conservative Party.

But in the event the polls and the SNP conspired to ratchet up The Fear to Terror levels, the former because they showed Labour's only path to power would be with the support of the SNP while failing to point to a Conservative majority and the latter because the SNP gleefully shouted from the Crag tops that they would prop up a Labour government, whether Labour liked it or not.

However, if the support of the SNP is required for the government to command a majority on non-Scottish legislation, the government will be faced with a tough choice: either accept the inevitable barrage of criticism or devise an alternative arrangement for dealing with non-Scottish legislation.

Then an SNP amendment saying the government should «publish a strategy for seeking to ensure that reciprocal healthcare arrangements continue after the UK leaves the EU» was defeated by 315 votes to 294 - a government majority of 21.

Ed Miliband has denied SNP claims that he would rather work with a Conservative government than with the Scottish nationalists, if no party wins an overall majority at the election.

Ed Miliband denies an SNP suggestion that he would rather work with a Conservative government than the Scottish nationalists, if no party wins an overall majority.

Nicola Sturgeon declared the SNP has «made history» by winning a third term in government at Holyrood but the party failed to reach a majority.

The SNP would presumably argue that Scotland's best interests would be served by them holding the balance of power than a majority Labour government, and the poll indicates that this is the majority view.

The former Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg, has said the media's focus on a possible Labour / SNP coalition in the general election helped hand a majority government to the Tories and was the equivalent of «hundreds of millions of pounds of attack advertising funding» for David Cameron.

It implies that the SNP could govern much more easily as a minority, or form a majority government with any party it chooses including the Greens.

In the wake of Labour's second defeat at the Scottish Parliament election of May 2011, which saw the Scottish National Party (SNP) form its first majority government, Gray announced his intention to step down as leader of the Labour MSPs later that year.

Whilst I don't think this strategy would be a road to win Holyrood it would be a way to rebuild in their old heartlands in the central belt and break the SNP hegemony as when Labour does next form a government they probably will need a decent showing in Scotland to get a majority.

Nonetheless, the probability of the SNP being in government is higher than any single party forming a majority government.

With polling experts saying that Labour has only a 1 per cent chance of forming a majority Government in its own right, the SNP's support is likely to be vital in passing any Budget drawn up by a Miliband administration.

It implies that the SNP could govern much more easily as a minority, or form a majority government with any party it -LSB-...]

Mr Cameron, who has promised to lead a government for «one nation» after his party won its first majority since 1992 with 331 seats, has already spoken to SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon, whose party won 56 of the 59 seats in Scotland.