Sentences with phrase «back over this parliament»

«As the Labour party begins to look back over this parliament, the route map of its own destruction laid behind it will become clear, like the vapour trail from a jumbo jet.

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But looking back over Flaherty's six budgets, it is increasingly clear that he doesn't have much of a clue what he would do with the federal treasury if he were freed from the political constraints of a minority parliament.

Though the National Front has had trouble raising money for the campaign (Le Pen had to borrow money from her estranged father) and she has also been ordered to pay back over # 250,000 to the European Parliament over fake EU parliamentary assistant jobs — none of it seems to have an influence on the determination of her supporters.

Parliament is back and Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce is feeling the heat over allegations stemming from his affair with a staffer.

With the Olympic stadium bid back in the news following Karren Brady's outburst over the Beckham loan, Tottenham's Member of Parliament David Lammy has slammed the clubs plans to move out of the area.

Over 27,000 people signed a petition in support of the campaign last year, with over 5,000 writing to their MP to ask them to back the petition in ParliamOver 27,000 people signed a petition in support of the campaign last year, with over 5,000 writing to their MP to ask them to back the petition in Parliamover 5,000 writing to their MP to ask them to back the petition in Parliament.

The atmosphere on the Commons terrace has changed in a fortnight and might revert back over the next two weeks before Parliament shuts for the summer.

A group of Conservative backbenchers could leave parliament in the new year if the coalition does not back down over proposed boundary changes, according to a report.

That ought still to include a promise to force a Commons vote on it and thus challenge the Lib Dems, a promise to enable and require councils to build houses, a promise to restore the Agricultural Wages Board that the Lib Dems have abolished, a promise to reverse the dismantlement of England's NHS by Shirley Williams and other Lib Dems, a promise to reverse any privatisation of the Royal Mail and thus stop it because no buyer would take the risk, and a promise to renationalise the railways for free over the course of a Parliament by simply taking back each franchise as it came up for renewal.

Concerned to yank back economic credibility from the Tories, he reaffirmed the Darling plan to halve the deficit over the course of the parliament, and made points around the need to develop a proper industrial strategy.

The problem was that as I turned over to go back to sleep, my work experience student was arriving in Parliament.

«Justice Atuguba has seniority over me because instead of continuing straight from the fourth year as we used to call it, of law school, to the fifth year which is the professional year or rather the final part of the professional course, I broke and went to do my master's so when I came back they — my first classmates — had already been called to the bar so I was called to the bar with Ato Dadzie and that younger generation,» she told parliament's Appointment Committee on Friday, 16 June when Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu asked her to clarify to the committee whether she or Justice Atuguba was senior to the other.

This year, Parliament sat for two highly productive weeks in September, bringing back MPs for a proper audit of the Government's activities over August.

The former shadow work and pensions secretary also backed Mr Corbyn's call for a war powers act to give MPs in Parliament a legal veto over any decision to go to war.

Conservative rebels inflicted a humiliating defeat on Theresa May in the House of Commons as they backed an amendment to her flagship European Union withdrawal bill over parliament's right to a meaningful vote on the Brexit deal.

The Government has so far suffered a series of humiliating defeats at the hands of the Lords over the EU Withdrawal Bill — with peers backing plans to remain part of a customs union with the EU and to give Parliament more say over the final Brexit deal.

Ed Miliband supports giving back more control to national parliaments, and for the UK this must include control over social legislation like working hours and agency workers.

Bercow is very happy to back parliament over ministers.

This would save more than # 1 billion over the next parliament, of which # 600 million should be used to help get the unemployed back into work, Tory officials have pledged.

And there are areas where power over economic issues needs to come back to national parliaments.

Backed up by new constitutional guarantees, Brown hinted, too, at giving the Scottish parliament greater power over the railways; party sources indicated that could allow a future Scottish government to bring rail services into some form of public ownership.

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for Builsa North, James Agalga has suggested that Minority Members of Parliament are ready to back the suit filed by a member of the party against the government over the defence cooperation agreement with the United States.

Plans backed by Gordon Brown to increase the Scottish parliament's remit — including giving it greater control over income tax, borrowing powers and criminal justice — are now in great doubt after the Queen's speech made only a fleeting reference to the proposals.

As members of parliament return to Westminster, Ministers and MPs who have fanned out over the weekend for media interviews are all reporting back the same message to the Tory whips: this problem is not going away.

Deputy First Minister and education secretary John Swinney said: «The defining mission of this government is to raise school attainment and close the poverty - related gap, backed by # 750 million of investment over the lifetime of this Parliament.

Bright Blue, backed by over 100 Conservative Members of Parliament (MPs), is arguing that cutting student loan interest rates would only serve to benefit the more financially secure in the UK.

It is time for ministers and Parliament to seize back control over this process.