Sentences with phrase «coalition junior party»

A coalition junior party less afraid to challenge the Conservatives, to assert itself on the issues that matter and demonstrate to voters that it is making a difference, is more desirable.

Not exact matches

In another example, former deputy premier Nikola Sainovic was appointed to a top body of Serbia's Socialist Party, the junior partner in the ruling coalition, after serving two thirds of an 18 - year sentence for crimes against ethnic Albanians in the Kosovo war.

«If the «bail - in» of junior bondholders is not announced simultaneously with a bailout of retail investors, the announcement likely would severely hurt the popularity of the parties belonging to the coalition government,» Fois from Barclays said.

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.

Schulz opposes becoming the junior coalition partner because this has previously impacted the party in a negative way, every time it joined forces with Merkel.

A new coalition government led by Chancellor Merkel still seemed the most likely outcome, although negotiations between the various parties looked set to take some time, mainly due to the difficulties of accommodating the opposing views of the junior partners in the proposed coalition, the economically liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP) and the Greens.

The coalition's junior party is now calling for the media plurality rules laid down by the last government to be dropped in favour of stricter ones.

Many in the coalition's junior party are likely to be deeply frustrated by the setback, however.

The coalition's junior party says # 400 million of funding for the Department for Education's «basic need budget», which provides cash helping areas where there is severe competition for limited school places, has been diverted.

Many Tory party activists refused to believe the Lib Dems would go ahead with the threat during last autumn's party conference season, but are now being forced to confront the coalition's junior party intransigence on the issue.

It was a PR victory for the coalition's junior party, but humiliating for Truss personally.

Also a former PM, Pawlak has not engaged in any symbolic political acts, as many junior coalition partners often do, even though his party represents a sizable, partisan agrarian electorate.

To avoid the Baker scenario, the Liberal Democrats should deploy more than one junior minister in key departments that are led by the senior party of the coalition.

Junior coalition parties in the British context: explaining the Liberal Democrat collapse at the 2015 general election, Electoral Studies

The coalition's junior party has not secured its «mansion tax» on homes worth over # 2 million, but stamp duty on properties above this value is to jump upwards to seven per cent.

That's why a vote is unlikely: if the coalition's junior party doesn't approve the Tory plans, there wouldn't be a division in government time.

How important is Lords reform to the coalition's junior party?

«Number 10 need to listen to their Conservative backbenchers and the Conservative Party grass roots more often, and to their minority and junior Coalition partners less often,» he said.

The determination of the party to amend the health bill can only help Nick Clegg's negotiating position and demonstrate in times of adversity for a junior coalition partner the value of its democratic processes and its progressive outlook.

The party was pushed back into fourth place by Ukip, which almost trebled the votes of the coalition's junior partner.

The junior coalition party suffered at the ballot box across England, Scotland and Wales in last week's elections, their first major electoral test since entering power last year.

Today, Plaid Cymru is the junior party in a Welsh Labour party coalition with 15 of the 60 seats in the Welsh Assembly.

Part of making politics more sophisticated is admitting that when your party is in power as a junior partner in a coalition government, that it may have to support things that as a party it doesn't corporately agree with to gain influence on less palatable elements of the bigger partner's agenda and to implement at least part of its own.

Lib Dem strategists will be hoping today's abstention will help distinguish the coalition's junior party from the Tories.

Pack said it was «sensible» of Clegg to address the political flak the coalition's junior party were facing for having broken their higher education promises.

Labour, perhaps sensing that the Liberal Democrats may benefit from Clegg's frank apology, has laid into the coalition's junior party.

Clegg and the rest of the coalition's junior party were still under - resourced in government, so the end of 2011 saw the appointment of more special advisers for Lib Dem ministers and a drastically reinforced office for Clegg himself.

The apology is being viewed as a major strategic shift in approach from the coalition's junior party, as it seeks damage limitation by conceding it made a major error of judgement while in opposition.

It would benefit the coalition's junior party, as it always receives fewer MPs per seats than either Labour or the Conservatives.

The former Foreign Office minister, whose book Race Plan is published this week, suggested this morning that Clegg had been forced to «meet his detractors halfway» and that this had undermined the coalition's junior party.

The junior coalition party has lost 35 % of its supporters since it entered government with the Conservatives in 2010.

Removing support for the health and social care bill from the junior coalition party would be an unprecedented step for Mr Clegg.

Since the 1980s, the popularity of other parties has increased such that coalition governments are now typical and expected, with one of the two major parties being the «Senior» partner, and with one or more «Junior» partners ensuring that the coalition retains a majority in the Dáil.

In the by - elections since the 2010 General Election, UKIP have beaten the junior coalition party time and time again, including all of the last four where UKIP picked up two second places and one third.

That reduction is proportionately much greater for Nick Clegg's party and was only accepted by the junior coalition partners in return for the referendum on AV.

While accepting the need to make some compromises with Nick Clegg's party they feel Cameron has given away too much to the coalition's junior party — and want the prime minister to be more assertive as the next general election approaches.

Best of all, he's incredibly unpopular - a perfect fit with the junior coalition party in the UK.»

I've ducked out of the Commons debate, conveniently after the main speeches, to get the view of the coalition's junior party on this fine mess.

So when our party leaders speak about the possibility of entering a coalition and their advisers» brief warmly about doing business with Vince Cable, I'm sure the other side have thick skins, but let's not get carried away and believe that it's up to us who the junior party has as leader.

It would damage the leaders of both coalition parties, not just the junior partner.

The coalition's junior party has been undermined by Nick Clegg's suggestion that a referendum could be considered after the first tranche of elections takes place in 2015.

She served as a junior minister in the Labour - Liberal Democrat coalition Scottish Executive from 2004 until the coalition's defeat by the Scottish National Party (SNP) in 2007.

Nor did it do much for the campaign of the junior party in the coalition.

Others are concerned about the effect a strong carbon market could have on their economies at a time of financial upheaval, such as Germany's junior coalition partners, the Free Democratic Party.

Nonetheless, home secretary Theresa May is annoyed at the Liberal Democrats, her Conservative Party's junior coalition partner, for blocking moves to reintroduce a repeatedly floated, and repeatedly shot - down, «Snooper's Charter» — more properly known as the Communications Data Bill.