Sentences with phrase «by dup»

An attempt to get same sex marriage through the Assembly, before it collapsed, was blocked by DUP AMs, using a mechanism called a Petition of Concern.

On a more policy, rather than personality / leadership basis, of some concern, is the lack of agreement by the DUP and SF on when policing and justice powers will be devolved to the Assembly and Executive.

You will get to see her cope with life in Curdon Cay after being captured by the DUP, and experience what happens when her brother Brent goes missing - and how far she will go to find him.»

Mr Corbyn said the main vote showed the Conservatives «survived by the skin of their teeth today, supported by the DUP, but this is a government in chaos» as he pledged to oppose its legislative agenda «every step of the way».

The Conservative party's minority government is being propped up in parliament by the DUP, and any change which exposed the DUP - CRC donation arrangement is likely to be resisted.

He told the committee that # 282,000 had been spent by the DUP on pro-leave advertising on mainland UK with # 32,000 also given to AggregateIQ and Cambridge Analytica.

«There will be deep disappointment and dismay at the failure of leadership by the DUP and their efforts to frustrate the will of the people,» Mr Adams said.

High - April 15th: Legal wrangles - Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV) leader fails to extend a temporary injunction against leaflets by his DUP opponent, Ian Paisley Jr..

Theresa May will remain as Prime Minister and the Conservatives will be supported by the DUP in parliament.

This time the Prime Minister actually bothered to turn up, but it seems she's been influenced by DUP dinosaurs.

Nonetheless, as I write Theresa May is announcing the formation of her new minority government backed by the DUP.

Matters are not helped by the DUP's pact with the Conservatives.

At the moment, the Northern Ireland Assembly is run by the DUP's Peter Robinson as First Minister and Martin McGuinness of Sinn Féin as Deputy First Minister.

It has opposed attempts by the DUP to pass welfare reforms in March, arguing they had «acted in bad faith on welfare protections».

A government led by Theresa May and propped up by the DUP would appear at first glance to be a progressive's worst nightmare.

It is adamantly opposed by the DUP, on which Theresa May depends for her parliamentary majority.

The Greens and Sinn Fein are furthest to the left; the SNP and Plaid Cymru occupy the same position to the left of Labour; the SDLP adopts the same position as Labour (its MPs informally take the Labour whip in the House of Commons); the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland adopts the same position as its sister party, the Liberal Democrats; the Conservatives are on the centre - right, followed by the DUP and the independent Unionist MP, with UKIP furthest right.

The replacement of the more moderate UUP and SDLP by the DUP and Sinn Fein as the largest parties polarised the situation further, making a resumption of devolved government considerably harder, as the DUP formally refused even to hold talks with Sinn Fein.

So let us consider the alternative — that, in the end, the UK government is forced by the DUP (and its Brexiters) to adopt a hard border stance i.e. insisting on no regulatory divergence between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.

Answering a question by DUP MP Jim Shannon during PMQs on Wednesday, Theresa May said she's looking to do more to help those who face violence because of their faith.

Even the areas that have been terraformed by the DUPs collective ability to control concrete can't manage to dampen the cityscape.

Not exact matches

The Fed + Fit Cookbook packs in over 175 super duper clean paleo recipes along with her 28 - day Fed + Fit Project plan — plus tons of exercise breakdowns and dozens of workouts written by the one & only Juli Bauer of PaleOMG!

A sharp knife, is a safer knife by far and although there are many ways to keep your knives sharp a pull through and hand - held knife sharpener makes it super duper easy and safe to do, all in the comfort of your own home.

By the way I am super duper self - conscious about how to say Loo - Ah - vuhl.

Although all of us were parent bloggers we were doing our darndest to be focused and not be interrupted by our kids (I super duper bribe / threaten my kids during these calls) but Nicole brought up the same and how her kids deal with it and I thought she's just like us.

The DUP and Sinn Fein must agree on a power sharing agreement by the March 26th deadline or reach their own deal on devolution, Northern Ireland secretary Peter Hain has warned.

The UK is less happy — it has to accept some regulatory alignment which will upset the DUP, but this may be worth it if it gets a final deal on trade that it is happy with (I've shown this by giving a score of 2 for Ireland and 1 for the UK in this case although, of course, the actual values of the scores is arbitrary — it is only their relative value that matters).

The Democratic Unionist party (DUP) has asked the British government to push back the existing power - sharing agreement deadline at the Northern Ireland Assembly by six weeks.

Sinn Fein have called on the DUP to agree to power sharing by the deadline and chief negotiator Martin McGuiness has written to Northern Ireland secretary Peter Hain to confirm he will serve as deputy first minister if asked.

The DUP refused to attend the last executive meetings and deputy first minister, Sinn Fein's Martin McGuiness, said he was «excited» by their presence.

The DUP executive meets on Saturday, seeking reassurances that Sinn Fein's acceptance of the police service is matched by support among its grassroots supporters.

Nick McPherson, the former Treasury chief, suggested on Twitter that the # 1bn deal reached by May with the DUP is no more than a downpayment.

Labour's official policy is now to stay in the single market and customs union for a transition period - a position backed by trade unions, business bodies and all opposition parties apart from the DUP.

That the biggest leap forward in the Brexit negotiations was created by an emergency tactical manoeuvre by May responding to the DUP shows the negotiations follow the formula of «Brexit by cock - up», with little regard to what is best for the country as a whole.

This is a prospect heightened by curiously radical boundary revisions in Northern Ireland which for her fortuitously guarantees 10 seats for the Government's DUP allies.

As the dishevelled Tory - DUP agreement struggles to nail down its Brexit strategy, intellectual property seems destined to be left by the wayside.

The DUP's Jim Shannon is being investigated by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority's compliance officer over expense claims.

Last night's meeting of local party members voted 108 - 84 against a motion which pointed out the demonstration was also attended by some Conservative and DUP MPs, as well as Tory peer Norman Tebbit.

In Northern Ireland, where homosexuality was only made legal 15 years after the rest of the UK in 1982, the Democratic Unionist party (DUP), led by Ian Paisley, ran a Save Ulster from Sodomy campaign.

I suspect that won't stop the DUP being spooked by the result though, unfortunately.

Hanging on in power by a thread through a delicate agreement with the DUP, the party must broaden its electoral appeal in order to achieve the healthy parliamentary majority it so dearly craves.

We're not expecting to have had the Tory - DUP deal signed off by Monday.

The DUP instinctively perceive the «special status» demanded by Sinn Féin as a backdoor to remaining in the EU and, ultimately, Irish reunification.

Given the Conservatives distasteful campaign, the unrelenting politicisation of Corbyn's relationship with the IRA, their call for an end to the «unfair» prosecution of British soldiers for crimes committed during the Troubles and their present desire for a deal with the DUP, one might be forgiven for wondering how a Conservative government might ever expect to be perceived by nationalists as independent guarantors of the Nothern Irish peace process.

The DUP may continue to support the government on a vote - by - vote basis, even without an agreement.

DUP MPs have previously set out their concerns about the two - child limit by signing up to an early day motion calling on the government to have the policy annulled.

• If no agreement is reached on Stormont power - sharing by Thursday's deadline, we could see the unusual spectacle of Northern Ireland being governed from Westminster, while the DUP runs the rest of Britain.

While the SDLP sprung a surprise in 1998 by overtaking a DUP candidate to win the final seat due to Ulster Unionist transfers — the first time that any nationalist candidate has benefited in this way.

Ms Villiers, generally perceived as detached from local affairs, caused consternation in Belfast by openly campaigning with the DUP ahead of the EU referendum.

«The only way for voters to ensure Britain doesn't get a left wing Labour Government propped by the SNP or a right wing Tory government propped up by Ukip and the DUP is to vote Liberal Democrat.