Sentences with phrase «coalition government meant»

The former deputy prime minister said broadcasters» and the media's «endless crystal ball gazing» about the likelihood of another coalition government meant the Conservatives were not properly questioned about the policies they would pursue in power.

The coalition has rapidly become part of our parlance, considering that before May we had no comprehension of what coalition government meant for modern Britain.

Her impressive performance in the debate and her potential role as a decisive partner in any potential coalition government meant she gained a considerable amount of attention.

As I've written many times, critics too easily forget that coalition government means that a staunchly Tory PM can not govern as a Tory.

Governing parties don't normally get the opportunity to mount a fundamental relaunch but coalition government means we have an exceptional opportunity to do so.

All those broken promises and the public's clear disdain for coalition government mean only the robust core of Lib Dems have bothered to show up in Glasgow.

What could a coalition government mean for the Trans Mountain pipeline project?

Not exact matches

This means the party could push its right - wing agenda at a national level in a future coalition government.

Since the election in 2010 the coalition government has placed a cap on the amount of benefits people can receive and introduced the Spare Room Subsidy that means people on housing benefit with more bedrooms than they needed had their benefits cut.

Legal challenges to the government's consultation, concerns over the hybrid nature of the legislation (this means it takes much longer to work its way through parliament) and the coalition's decision to split the legislation into two parts are worrying interested spectators — like Labour's Eagle.

Now, the coalition government is refocusing its aid programme to fuel the engine of development — the private sector — to help provide Africa's poorest people with the means to create their own wealth.

So when the new Coalition and its supporters, like Julian Glover, argue that something called «liberalism» is the guiding thread of the new government, we need to pause and recall that they mean by this a very specific kind of liberalism.

The expenses upheaval of 2009 means that many dying swans are already dead, so that the Coalition need worry less about unhappy incumbents than previous governments.

The split in labour was because reform would mean less Labour government alone, but more Labour led government through coalition.

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.

Coalition Governments are inherently unstable, meaning that a new election would be pretty imminent as soon as it was apparent that no party had a majority (like 1974).

By focusing on these well - meaning policy areas, the Liberal Democrats are trying to distance themselves from the record of the most toxic policies implemented by the coalition government.

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.

Does the fact that Labour won the most votes in this election mean the coalition government is heading for certain doom?

By 2007 nationalists had become the largest party in the Scottish Parliament, and by 2011 they had an overall majority: no mean achievement in a proportional representation system intended to produce minority or coalition government.

It is this continuation of the historic decline of the Tory party that meant a coalition was required to secure a stable government that can carry through cuts.

The likely consequence of that was coalition governments; coalition inevitably means compromise; compromise is almost certain to mean that at least some of the promises to your voters can't be kept.

If the forecast is correct, it means another coalition government.

Coalitions mean political leaders picking and choosing which parts of their manifesto they seek to implement after you've voted for it, meaning you can not have confidence that they will stick by any of the promises they have made if they enter government.

His terms of reference make clear that «standard rules of confidentiality with regard to access to government material will apply» - meaning he will not be able to blow the gaffe on the coalition's internal agonisings over higher education.

«The Coalition Government has cut back on promised additional investment for universities, which now means that fewer places are available than are needed.

Wales has already taken more pain than other parts of the country, with real wages falling # 1600 since 2010, and the further cut announced today will mean that the Welsh Government's budget is down by more than 10 per cent since the coalition came to power.

«A coalition binds the Lib Dems in with the future of the government and therefore means the government is less likely to fall.

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Britain's coalition government has been unpopular, but this doesn't mean that a Labour win is a certainty; this is no «drover's dog» moment for Miliband.

The direct tax is likely to be met with a hostile reception in Britain by the ruling Conservative party - meaning their pro-European Liberal Democrat partners in government's reaction could be crucial to ensuring the issue does not divide the coalition.

Most likely because of the lingering effects of coalition government, ineffective leadership and a realisation amongst remain voters that the Lib Dems could not win in most seats, meant they were not the first choice for those favouring a soft Brexit.

«Let me just say this to you — if it meant we weren't going to be in government, not doing a coalition, not having a deal, then so be it.»

The coalition government has pledged to legislate to prevent the use of parliamentary privilege by MPs accused of serious misdoing, meaning even if the appeal is successful the parliamentarians» attempts to avoid a criminal trial could be unsuccessful.

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The 55 per cent threshold means that Prime Minister Cameron could survive at the head of a minority Conservative government even if the Lib Dems pulled out of the coalition deal.

Channel 4 News analysis of the new coalition government: - Does «new politics» mean more Oxbridge males?

All is not lost though, as comparative researchby Akash Paun and Robyn Munro shows, smaller parties are less likely to be punished in a coalition if it lasts the distance and, while they may have little control over whether they stay in government or not, the post election arithmetic may mean that Nick Clegg is still the kingmaker in a hung parliament, even if the party is decimated at the next election.

Evidence from John Curtice at Strathclyde University shows that the decline in the number of marginal seats and the reduced share of the vote for the two main parties means coalition government is now much more likely in the future.

On Thursday's BBC Question Time programme, the Labour leader said he was «not going have a Labour government if it means deals or coalitions with the Scottish National Party.»

To my surprise, Cleggmania had not swept the Lib Dems to a landslide victory, but a hung parliament meant our party could help form the first coalition government in 65 years.

Finally, while party rivalry is generally intense in the majoritarian and adversarial British political system, the 2010 - 15 coalition government and the relatively close majority after the 2015 general election meant additional competitive pressures.

It means the coalition is within sight of a goal that has eluded governments over 20 years.

The unexpected election of a single - party government means there is a stronger emphasis on keeping manifesto promises than there would have been under a coalition, which would have allowed more room for alteration, says Prof Malcolm Chalmers, research director of the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi).

Mr Cameron's arrival in Downing Street means that the two parties in coalition in the assembly government - Labour and Plaid - will have to work with a UK government run by two different parties.

Keith Porteous Wood, executive director of the National Secular Society said the Coalition Government's Localism Act 2011 had not been tested in any court, arguing Mr Pickles could not «simply walk in and give it any meaning that suits his purpose».

More Channel 4 News analysis of the new coalition government: - Does «new politics» mean more Oxbridge males?

While many of the Liberals» plans remain unclear, and there is the prospect of a messy coalition government, analysts say a Trudeau government would mean less of a focus on Canadian oil and a stronger push for clean energy and action on climate change.

In a joint statement to the OSTP, the Association of American Publishers (AAP) and the Washington D.C. Principles Coalition for Free Access to Science — which represents society publishers — slammed NIH - style mandates as «a means for facilitating international piracy,» saying that they would «damage the very institutions that researchers, the public and government itself rely on to peer review, publish, disseminate and preserve scientific information.»

«We were very excited to put on the (coalition government's) priority school building programme but we were expecting an imminent development and I'm now beginning to wonder what priority means,» he said.