Sentences with phrase «between coalition ministers»

The mutual contempt between coalition ministers and their senior civil servants is now so bad it is putting the effectiveness of government at risk, a think - tank has warned.

The bill was included in the Queen's Speech after years of delays and wrangling between coalition ministers.

Not exact matches

The responses effectively blurred the lines between the two major parties on the issue of foreign investment, despite repeated statements from Labor ministers supporting foreign investment and ridiculing the Coalition's policy.

It will be a choice between strong and stable leadership in the national interest, with me as your Prime Minister, or weak and unstable coalition government led by Jeremy Corbyn, propped up by the Liberal Democrats, who want to re-open the divisions of the referendum, and Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP.

Following that election, Simon Thomas was appointed a special adviser to the Plaid Cymru ministers in the Welsh Assembly Government coalition between his party and Labour.

While advancement of the peace process is of one of cornerstones of the coalition agreement between the Kadima and Likud — the two largest parties in the Knesset — the government is unlikely to adopt the defense minister's proposal.

The Osborne plan (and the Coalition Agreement) called on Conservative and Liberal Democrat ministers to achieve a cyclically - adjusted target to reduce government debt as a share of national income between 2014 - 15 and 2015 - 16 and, politically and economically most significant, to do so by achieving a budget balance by the end of the Parliament.

Should a prime minister stay in office only so long as he has a potential chance to govern, or does he have a responsibility to remain as premier to enable a full coalition agreement to be agreed between the other parties?

Befitting its status as the senior coalition partner, contributing 306 of the coalition's original 363 MPs, and both the prime minister and chancellor of the exchequer, the Conservative Party provided the the primary inspiration for the programme for government that ensued from the negotiations between the two parties.

The prime minister is demanding that Tory MPs support the reform plans to shore up the coalition as Clegg has made clear that introducing a «wholly or mainly elected upper chamber» remains a vital element of the agreement between the two parties.

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg announced today that plans to reform the House of Lords will be abandoned after the Conservatives had «broken the contract» between the coalition government partners.

In Politics: Between the Extremes, former Deputy Prime Minister and Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg explains the challenges of being the small, Liberal partner in the coalition, and argues forcefully for the importance of -LSB-...]

Much energy has been generated within the coalition from sparks of disagreement between the more pro-wind energy Lib Dem ministers and Tories favouring the chancellor's plans to «dash for gas» — ie.

Tensions within the coalition about plans to cap housing benefit were raised yesterday in a standoff between Mr Clegg and shadow justice minister Chris Bryant.

Following the coalition agreement between the Scottish Liberal Democrats and Labour in the Scottish Parliament, he became Deputy Minister for Enterprise and Lifelong Learning.

The announcement of the changes was delayed after a behind - the - scenes dispute between the Coalition partners — just the latest in a series of clashes between Mr Cameron and Deputy Prime Minister Mr Clegg.

Nick Clegg, the Lib Dem Deputy Prime Minister, is understood to have ordered his MPs to embrace their Coalition partners amid fears that strains between the two sides could begin to undermine the Government.

The Scottish first minister, Alex Salmond, has hinted he could be open to a coalition between Labour and the Scottish National party (SNP), raising the possibility that he could return to Westminster and take a senior role in the government next May.

The then deputy first minister Martin McGuinness pulled Sinn Féin out of the coalition after a bitter split between the governing parties.

Osborne's statement followed a heated exchange at prime minister's questions between David Cameron and Ed Miliband over the coalition government's austerity drive.

He was leader of the Liberal Democrats between 2007 and 2015, deputy prime minister in David Cameron's coalition government and MP for Sheffield Hallam for 12 years, before losing his seat to Labour in the last election.

None of this of course is helped by the Coalition's failure to agree to a head to head debate between Health Minister Sussan Ley and her Opposition counterpart Catherine King.

The first action: A call specifically to the Prime Minister, for a meeting between Malcolm Turnbull and the elected representatives of Australia's First Peoples, and a Coalition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders and organisations.