Sentences with phrase «coalition governments feel»

Not exact matches

Eastern countries will defend their closed borders policy and Merkel could feel increasingly isolated, both among European leaders and within her own government coalition: regional elections in March could exacerbate divisions within her coalition.

America in the 1980s and 1990s was guided by a coalition of profit - seeking corporations and concerned traditional communities, both of which had felt oppressed by a high - handed government.

The hypothetical (and it is a very, very extreme one, not a prediction) would involve Harriet Harman or someone else leading Labour, while A.N.Other politician, with whom the Liberal Democrats felt they could do business, acting as the head of a coalition government.

The government was at that time a coalition, and Montagu had to gain support from Conservative MPs and Lords who felt strongly that all such grants of power to «natives» ran the risk of undermining the Empire.

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.

I continue to feel that I am a liberal; but I am appalled by the leadership's approach to coalition government.

Note that the current government stays in place until either the PM feels that she has enough votes to stay in government (whether as a coalition, or as a minority government with some kind informal agreement with other parties), or it become obvious that another party or coalition has the votes.

But virtually everywhere the PM looks, he feels a need to compromise if the coalition government is to survive.

Nick Clegg said that he was «not sure it was avoidable» but that he had felt «pressure... to show that coalition government could work».

The Coalition Agreement stated explicitly that «the state pension age will not start to rise to 66 sooner than 2016 for men and 2020 for women», yet just a few weeks after this Agreement the Government unilaterally announced that actually women's state pension age would start rising from 2016; suddenly their state pension has been denied to them for up to 2 extra years, making many feel (as they have said) like the Government has gone into their bank account and taken away thousands of pounds.

When Clegg entered the coalition government with the Conservatives, the Labour party, always quick to feel betrayed, duly howled blue murder.

He insists that if Nicola Sturgeon's party formed a coalition with Labour they would govern in such a way as to ensure «people feel the country doesn't work and the government doesn't work».

Mandelson said Blair felt a left - of - centre coalition government was good in principle.

But Jonathan Jones, the director of the NC Open Government Coalition and an instructor at Elon College feels differently.