Sentences with phrase «backing out of the coalition»

The 55 % benchmark prevents either the Tories or the Lib Dems from backing out of the coalition and bringing government crashing down, because neither party can secure that level of support in the Commons.

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This morning's account in the Times (#) of a «dinner table plot to unseat the coalition» turns out to be the second subtantial leak from the No Turning Back Group - the right - of - party - centre backbench dining club of Conservative MPs of which I was once a member.

Assuming he hasn't had a change of heart and decided to row back on promises set out in the Conservative manifesto and the Coalition Agreement, the detail in the Red Book will confirm that the UK will meet its promise to spend 0.7 % of our national income on aid from next year.

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.

His Left - wing rhetoric will alarm many Conservatives and business leaders, who point out that the Coalition is asking the private sector to take the lead in hauling the economy out of recession as the public sector is cut back.

Following of week of Gov. Andrew Cuomo and surrogates pushing for a statewide universal pre-Kindergarten plan funded out of the budget, the coalition backing universal pre-K in the city is distributing a flyer this Caucus Weekend pushing Albany officials on the proposal backed by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.

The labor - backed Strong Economy for All coalition is doubling down on the millionaire's tax, despite the fact that Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos flatly declared it «dead» today, sending out another round of mailers on the topic to constituents in nine new Senate districts.

Meanwhile, a coalition of good - government organizations — NYPIRG, the League of Women Voters, Reinvent Albany and Citizens Union — backed Schneiderman's assessment of the special prosecutor role as laid out by Cuomo.

The AV and EU referendums failed to go his way, while five years of coalition with the Conservatives diminished his party such that they were wiped out at the 2015 election, with Clegg's seat, on the back of a student vote, angry about tuition fees, turning Corbynite two years later.

Amid the rancorous back and forth, a coalition of transportation advocates put out a statement urging the governor and the mayor to «move expeditiously» towards an agreement, one that includes «significantly» more city funding, and significantly more details on how Cuomo plans to fund his own promised $ 8.3 billion contribution.

Sen. Andrew Lanza (R - Staten Island) saw statements like that as signs that Democrats are trying to back out of the reforms the coalition passed in the coup.

«The Coalition's crackdown on welfare abuse is welcome but Cameron needs to focus on the three pathways out of poverty Main Warsi to ex-Labour Ministers: hand back your severance pay»

Take Back Parliament launched dramatically a few weeks ago, at the height of the coalition negotiations, when several thousand people chanting «fair votes now» and «we want to speak to Nick» gathered outside the LGA building where Nick Clegg was meeting and called the Liberal Democrat leader out to demand he does not abandon the party's historic commitment to PR.

Well this «Referendum on the voting system used to elect MPs to the House of Commons» came about as a result of the bargaining carried out in anonymous back rooms, possibly no longer smoke filled due to Health and Safety, which resulted in the creation of the coalition which is now our government.

With the Tories coming out as the biggest party in terms of votes and seats, the assumption from those backing Mr Cameron to stay in Number 10 is that «if the seats are there,» the Liberal Democrats will do another deal with Cameron and we'll have coalition 2.0.

Only one in four people (26 per cent) who voted Liberal Democrat in May agree that the party should now pull out of the Coalition, as do 27 per cent of those who backed the Tories.

The Guardian's Lenore Taylor has pointed out that while the Coalition is bringing back the «carbon tax» scare campaign of 2013, its own scheme would have to draw on the «safeguard mechanism» component of Direct Action — which is itself a disguised ETS — to have any chance of meeting the targets.

Dave Snyder, the executive director of the California Bicycle Coalition, backed the state's new legislation based partly on the idea that e-bikes help out those who «just can't ride as far or as fast as they need to.»