Sentences with phrase «coalition deal with»

Deputy Prime Minister is set to defend the coalition deal with the Conservatives to his party today at the Liberal Democrat conference, saying it is the «right government for right now».

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.

The move - announced at a meeting of all Tory MPs in the Commons tonight - could allow David Cameron more control over the body amid disquiet over the coalition deal with the Liberal Democrats.

It was made to the surprise and annoyance of some Tory MPs, some of whom were already unhappy about aspects of the coalition deal with the Liberal Democrats.

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.

According to a ComRes poll for the Independent on Sunday, 40 per cent would have voted differently if they had known about the Coalition deal with the Conservative party.

Also note that Jeremy Thorpe's Liberal vote actually fell between the two 1974 elections as his inability to close a coalition deal with either party was held against him by the voters.

The triumph ensures that Sturgeon will remain first minister but facing the prospect of a minority administration or potentially making a coalition deal with the Greens.

After the damage inflicted on the Liberal Democrats by their coalition deal with the Conservatives in 2010 - 15, the centrist party ruled out any reprise.

Speaking on the BBC tonight, Lib Dem peer Sir Ming Campbell described a coalition deal with the Tories as «impossible».

Meanwhile extraordinary new details of how Clegg negotiated the coalition deal with Cameron in the days following the election are revealed tomorrow by the Observer's chief political commentator, Andrew Rawnsley, in two additional chapters of his book, The End of the Party.

These reservations are shared widely in the Liberal Democrat Party, and have given rise to separate reports that Business Secretary, Vince Cable, who is a former member of the Labour Party, was deeply unhappy at the time of the deal being struck and made last ditch appeals to outgoing Prime Minister Gordon Brown in an attempt to strike a Coalition deal with Labour.

Research by grassroots website LibDemVoice.org found 55 % of party members want either a coalition deal with Labour or a more limited «confidence and supply» arrangement in which the Lib Dems prevent a Labour administration from falling.

The country's Social Democrats will ballot members on their coalition deal with Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Not exact matches

The Stop Mega Cable coalition — of which the Dish Network is a member — released a statement saying the agreement is «an important first step,» but fails to deal with some of the group's criticisms.

Germany is not putting its finances at risk with coalition deal, a former lawmaker told CNBC Tuesday.

The first phase of exit negotiations should have concluded in October, but only ended last week after a last - minute push to bring May's junior coalition partner — Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)-- on board with the deal.

«The 5 - Star Movement is the real winner of the election,» said SEL leader Nichi Vendola, who said that his coalition would have to deal with Grillo, who mixes fierce attacks on corruption with policies ranging from clean energy to free Internet.

But Square, particularly with the Snapchat deal, is in some ways hitting that goal from the other direction — by gathering a coalition of smaller businesses and services that probably no one had ever thought to wrap payments into to spread its brand.

The nearly - defeated US companies get a $ 500 million reward, half the 22 percent of the duties and tariffs the Americans now get to keep a lovely, Byrd - quality nest egg with which the coalition can kick start a new round of challenges in seven years when this deal dies.

What's to understand, May has said it before this deal is not about endorsing the Liberal party but about their leader who she feels she could work with in a coalition.

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.

Instead, a coalition of politically conservative business leaders forged ties with likeminded ministers, evangelists, and politicians to fight against New Deal liberalism, Communism, and immorality.

For most contemporary political scientists, however, the cultural basis for party coalitions, if recognized at all, ended with the New Deal, the historical backdrop for interpretations of contemporary politics.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

Laws had a rare vantage point at the centre of Coalition government as he attended the Quad, met regularly with Clegg and his policy advisers, served on important Cabinet Committees, frequently brokering deals between the Coalition parties.

That «coalition» approach is underpinned by the 97 - 01 policy agenda of new deal on jobs and windfall tax, minimum wage, devolution and FoI, public services, social chapter and pro-EU, feminisation of the PLP through shortlists, alongside macroecon stability, aversion to tax rises spoke to a party coalition; the post-01 agenda was arguably rather narrower, with new labour seeming to be about a particular method of public service reform.

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.»

Spending cuts caused by the coalition's austerity drive are driving down ministers» ability to deal with this problem.

A deal with Labour would require a grand coalition with other parties and could be electoral suicide for the Lib Dems in southern England.

It could even bolster the Tory base in the coming campaign and may intensify frustrations with the necessary deals of the current coalition.

Now the dynamics identified in your post (together with the simple fact of Tory numerical supremacy within the coalition) mean that those issues not decisively closed off in the agreement will tend to be decided by the Tories in their own favour, and even those items that are dealt with in an apparently decisive way in the agreement will be pulled in a more «Tory» direction in their implementation, especially where being implemented by a Tory cabinet minister (or by David Laws, which amounts to the same thing...).

But the coalition deal delivered a right wing coalition — with a party on which labour's weak self interest depended on being left wing.

The coalition agreement had seemed a done deal on Wednesday, but hit a snag Thursday after Jewish Home representatives skipped a final meeting with Likud - Beytenu negotiators, over the issue of whether Bennett would be afforded a «deputy prime minister» title.

To a point, it does seem to be doing this: the cities and local government devolution bill and, with it, George Osborne's Northern Powerhouse policy give coalitions of local authorities the opportunity to negotiate devolutionary «deals» with the centre.

But if May has not secured a deal with another party by Monday morning, there will be pressure on her to call off the talks, particularly if Labour can show it can form a coalition with other parties to form a working majority and send Corbyn into Downing Street as Prime Minister.

The ideological make - up of this coalition government militates against a land - for - peace deal with the Palestinians.

I thought for a few hours this might be a good thing anyway, but now suspect that the lack of a real - deal on PR will mean that Clegg can't do business - and as the other possible coalitions are unworkable, Cameron will end up trying to run a minority government with no formal agreement.

The manifesto is carefully calibrated not only to dodge the hostages to fortune of 2010, but also to offer plenty of scope for the Lib Dems to cut a deal with whichever party, Labour or Conservatives, are in a position to offer a second coalition.

Enhancing skills of coalition members and the community by Increasing there skills to deal with underage drinking and drug issues.

Swing voters were much more likely than Labour supporters to see the deficit as a serious problem that must be dealt with urgently, and that the Coalition's proposed cuts were unavoidable.

57 % of the public expected the coalition to be tougher than the last Labour government in dealing with crime; only 13 % thought it was being tougher; 23 % said it was less tough and 64 % said it was about the same.

After dealing with frontline politics in This House and Coalition, Graham turns his gaze on the transformation of the Sun from a sinking broadsheet into the tabloid bedrock of the Murdoch media empire.

The SPD is in government with Angela Merkel again after signing a coalition deal.

People sometimes argue that we were wrong to enter a coalition with the Conservatives, and should have done a deal with Labour.

(e) If the Conservatives were unable to strike such a deal, or so far short of an overall majority that they needed Lib Dem support, the option would become an alliance or coalition with Nick Clegg's party.

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 NiCoalition, 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 Nicoalition deal could only be struck with a new Liberal Democrat leader in place, in other words, not Nick Clegg.

The price of this coalition might be cheaper, though doing such a deal with parties of the Celtic Nations gives the West Lothian Question a new and more - powerful significance.

«Crime and welfare feature prominently in Tories» Corby campaign Main The Coalition should not give in to votes for 16 year olds in a secret deal with Alex Salmond»

She told ITV1's Daybreak: «I'm not worried about the coalition because I work in the coalition day to day and we work together and we're putting through, crucially, a huge amount of reform but also, crucially, doing the job together in terms of dealing with the deficit.