Sentences with phrase «coalition after the next election»

Andrew Hawkins argues that having a minority administration or coalition after the next election...

In the longer run, both parties are talking up a centre - Left coalition after the next election.

Not exact matches

Well, the only situation where a Lib / Lab coalition would be democratically acceptable after the next election would be one where Labour emerges as the largest party in a hung parliament or has an extremely small majority.

The coalition is struggling to find savings as it puts forward spending plans for 2015/6, after the Lib Dems and Tories agreed to commit to joint spending plans for a period of around ten months after the next election.

Following the election of Tony Blair as Labour leader in July 1994 after the death of his predecessor John Smith, Ashdown pursued co-operation between the two parties because he wanted to form a coalition government should the next general election end without any party having an overall majority.

Cameron and Clegg moved to shore up the coalition after a bumpy week in which Graham Brady, the chairman of the Conservative 1922 committee, suggested it could end before the next general election.

Liberal Democrat activists would prefer a coalition with Labour after the next general election with Vince Cable taking over from Nick Clegg, two new surveys have found.

If Labour is the largest party after the next election — and it is still unlikely — Adonis may find he gets his wish of seeing the second and third parties joining to form the coalition and leaving the former spouse standing on the sidelines again.

«Before or after the next election, if the parliamentary arithmetic throws up the need for a coalition of Labour and the Lib Dems, I would go into that with enthusiasm... I could serve in a Cabinet with Chris Huhne or Vince Cable tomorrow.

The Liberal Democrats must be part of a coalition government after the next election to stop the Conservatives or Labour «messing up», says leader Nick Clegg.

The party leadership should not forget that 79 % of Tory members want to see the Conservatives governing alone rather than in Coalition after the next general election.

ALBANY — Anticipating special elections after the state budget is passed in the spring of next year, the state Democratic Party is calling on Democratic factions within the Senate to reunify and form a majority coalition after that time.

He has concluded that should a coalition be formed again after the next election, then a minimum of 30 ministers across Government would be required.

After a momentous week which will define British politics until the next election, it is worth pausing to think what might have happened if Mr Cameron had not decided by 7 May to go for a full - blown coalition with the Liberal Democrats rather than a deal under which they would support the Tories in key Commons votes.

While he may have been trying to keep the Coalition together, it has — if the situation doesn't change — made that same Coalition (let alone a Tory majority) less likely after the next election.

The remarks by Clegg, which are relatively recent, may undermine his claim that he has no preference over a future Lib Dem coalition partner if the party holds the balance of power after the next election.

It is far from impossible that the first task of the Labour leader after the next General Election will be to «win» coalition negotiations.

Our polling suggests that Party members believe that David Cameron should be preparing, as the next election gradually draws nearer, to pursue Majority Conservatism rather than Coalition Conservatism after it - assuming that we gain an overall majority, that is.

More than two - fifths, 42 %, supported a coalition after the next general election to keep the Conservatives out of power, but 36 % rejected the prospect.

The second is whether the Conservative Party should try to prolong the coalition with the Liberal Democrats after the next election (and work to that end before it).

In the event of a coalition government after the next election, voters would prefer the Liberal Democrats to Ukip as the junior partner by 42 % compared to 35 %.

Meanwhile, Gordon Brown, who is being closely advised on this matter by Peter Mandelson, is not only contemplating a grand coalition in the event of a hung parliament after the next election, but he is also ready to consider heading a national government in the coming months in the event of the economic situation getting worse.

Here are the ten reasons why Number 10 thinks a continuing coalition remains very likely, even desirable after the next election...

Last night's Radio 4 Westminster Hour discussed the possibility of a grand anti-Labour coalition forming in the Cardiff Assembly after next May's elections.