Sentences with phrase «coalition deal»
A coalition deal refers to an agreement made between different political parties to work together and form a government. This typically happens when no single party wins enough seats in an election to have a majority. Parties in a coalition deal will agree on policies and share power to govern and make decisions. Full definition
His comments come after a senior party official has said electoral reform was «not a deal maker and not a deal breaker» for a possible coalition deal.
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The new coalition deal says this will be limited to 1,000 people per month.
The commitment is to be written into the Liberal Democrat manifesto, according to David Laws, its chief author, clearing a major obstacle in the path of a second coalition deal with the Tories.
Seemingly confirming that no coalition had been discussed, Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies has stated that the reason his party voted for Leanne Wood was to send a message to Labour — not because of any sort of coalition deal — adding that «Labour had no divine right to assume the first ministership».
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In a clear signal that Mr Clegg will talk to Mr Cameron about coalition deals first, he said: «I have said that whichever party gets the most votes and the most seats has the first right to seek to govern, either on its own or by reaching out to other parties and I stick to that view.
Sir, At a time when political leadership and vision are in short supply, to present a manifesto devoid of either, as you report some Liberal Democrats as planning [«Lib Dems axe pledges for coalition deal», 18 Feb] would be an act of folly.
Everyone knew ID cards was symbolically and substantively crucial: I made the point in looking at coalition deals in the New Statesman 18 months ago.
Tellingly Simon Hughes has also talked of a possible future Lib Lab Coalition, with Ed Miliband responding positively, although pointedly saying that any future coalition deal could only be struck with a new Liberal Democrat leader in place, in other words, not Nick Clegg.
It is an agreement,» Lib Dem spokesperson John Thurso said of the original coalition deal during the debate.
By Tuesday afternoon it was clear that Labour negotiators were unable or unwilling or both to reach a secure coalition deal on behalf of Labour with my party.»
And so he's hitched his own political future, as well as his party's, to this Lib - Con coalition deal and he now has nowhere else to go.
That is one good reason why something short of a full coalition deal — like a «confidence and supply» agreement with the Lib Dems and others, including possibly Ukip and the DUP — could work.
The Conservative chief whip Gavin Williamson has arrived in Belfast for talks with the Democratic Unionist Party on a proposed coalition deal, Downing Street has announced.
Prime Minister David Cameron and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg will deliver full details of their historic coalition deal today.
The Lib Dem - Tory coalition deal builds on the Lib Dem manifesto commitment to fixed - term parliaments.
NZ First leader announces he has reached coalition deal to form government with Labour, which says it also has backing of Green party
«It has all the hallmarks of a behind the scenes coalition deal designed as a fig leaf for Mr Clegg to cling to at a difficult Spring Conference this weekend.
«We understand that we are not going to beat these problems overnight and in particular no government in modern times has ever been left with such a terrible economic inheritance,» he said, insisting that unlike a «chronic short - termism in government» under Labour the five - year coalition deal would allow long - term decisions.
The vote which was believed to be the first time since 1946 that members of a governing party have voted against a Queen's Speech, and reflected deep Conservative unhappiness with Mr Cameron's coalition deal with the Liberal Democrats and concern over the inexorable rise of Ukip.
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ITV News understands that Mrs May is seeking a formal coalition deal, though the DUP is thought to favour a more informal «confidence and supply» agreement.
In 2007 his top adviser stood down over claims Campbell was dropping his historic insistence on voting reform, saying it was no longer a «deal - maker or a deal - breaker» for any future coalition deal.
According to Lord Mandelson's controversial new memoirs, during talks with Labour over a possible coalition deal, Clegg's then chief of staff Danny Alexander asked for the alternative voting system to be introduced without a referendum.
Germany is not putting its finances at risk with coalition deal, a former lawmaker told CNBC Tuesday.
The priority the government gives to different reforms set out in the coalition deal, the extent to which it implements them, and the personnel involved promise a welter of competing pressures that Merkel will need all her political skill to balance.
The pressure is on for both camps to deliver: the inclusion in the coalition deal of a clause that envisages a review of the government's progress after two years gives each the opportunity to leave the alliance then if it is not working for them.
Schulz said he hopes his decision will prevent SPD party members from rejecting a coalition deal with Chancellor Angela Merkel.
On the heels of a failed snap election in an effort to build a bigger majority and a personal mandate, Theresa May, the British Prime Minister, now faces the though job of trying to forge a coalition deal to stay in power.
The country's Social Democrats will ballot members on their coalition deal with Chancellor Angela Merkel.
The Green party and FDP both ruled out working closely with Mrs Merkel after the September vote unless same - sex marriage would be supported in any coalition deal.
A swift resignation would be an acknowledgement of his personal unpopularity and a concession to the reality that coalition deal - making is just too openly pragmatic for the British public to stomach.
He added: «When we return in the autumn to vote on this again, we fully expect the Conservatives to deliver this crucial part of the coalition deal - as we have delivered other coalition policies.»
But Allen insists: «Deferring proper democratic scrutiny of any coalition deal - making particularly in the Queen's name should be avoided.
There is, too, the issue of sustainability, on which the coalition deal probably gave the Liberal Democrats the most, and where the party undoubtedly has a strong team in government.
I believed at the time it was signed that the coalition deal wiped out support for electoral reform because it meant its core left wing rump, which felt it would ensure more left wing government in future, suddenly felt that wasn't true any more.
It is an interesting proposal — though it would achieve nothing now that the coalition deal has scuppered widespread left - leaning support for reform.
But the coalition deal delivered a right wing coalition — with a party on which labour's weak self interest depended on being left wing.
Even after the 2010 general election it looked possible for a brief period that he may seize victory from defeat with a coalition deal with the Liberal Democrats.
I'd suggest that the massive immediate drop in support for reform when the coalition deal was formed suggests that actually, millions and millions of people were strongly influenced by their loose affiliation to one side or the other.
And the coalition deal undermined that argument fundamentally for many past supporters of reform.
The coalition deal utterly destroyed support for electoral reform.
... and the Conservative / Liberal coalition of 2010 - 2015 tried and failed, because the Liberal leader insisted on pursuing his party's policies to introduce proportional representation as part of the coalition deal, That policy was decisively rejected, kicking any other electoral reform into the long grass at the same time.
In the meantime, disaster struck the Liberal Democrats, in the wake of a coalition deal with the Conservatives at Westminster that resulted in a sharp U-turn on the party's high profile policy of abolishing university tuition fees (in England).
Furthermore, Tory MPs weren't given the chance to vote formally on the coalition deal.
One was Guardian cartoonist Steve Bell's reference to an obscure «incest and folk dancing» quotation to (I think) lampoon the SNP's desire to demand more than Labour can offer in any coalition deal.