Sentences with phrase «coalition ministers on»

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France's defense and foreign ministers were in the United States on Wednesday for talks with other members of a U.S. - led coalition on increased military efforts against the group, which has urged followers to attack France, among other enemy countries.

That has cranked up pressure on Prime Minister Haider al - Abadi to resolve a political crisis or risk losing control of parts of Baghdad even as the military wages a counter-offensive against Islamic State in Iraq's north and west with the help of a U.S. - led coalition.

Officials in the governing coalition have hailed the German finance minister's trip, following an invitation from his counterpart, Yannis Stournaras, as further proof that Greece is on the road to recovery.

In a letter obtained by the Financial Post Tuesday, a coalition of seven business associations urged Transportation Minister Marc Garneau to instead focus on Bill C - 49, the sweeping Transportation Modernization Act currently making its way through the Senate.

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.

And the PDAC is doing its best to ensure juniors don't get overlooked in the fray of politics on the Hill — which almost saw Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative government toppled by an opposition coalition in December.

Given that Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's ruling Liberal - National Coalition has consistently stated it wants to hold a referendum on the issue rather than pass it in parliament, it's unlikely a change in marriage law will now happen for the foreseeable future.

SHADOW Agriculture Minister Joel Fitzgibbon wants the banks and federal Coalition government to intervene on the «extraordinary» dairy crisis in southern Australia to provide debt - relief assistance to help farmers sleep at night.

The responses effectively blurred the lines between the two major parties on the issue of foreign investment, despite repeated statements from Labor ministers supporting foreign investment and ridiculing the Coalition's policy.

General election 1945Clement Atlee's landslide victory in July 1945 came as a complete surprise to the Conservatives who were hoping to capitalise on Winston Churchill's hugely successful period as Britain's wartime coalition prime minister.

The Former Deputy Local Government Minister and Rural Development in the Kufuor administration had described as ridiculous the call by the Coalition of Concerned Teachers (CCT) on president - elect, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo, to restore teacher trainee allowances within its first 100 days in office.

My job was to go out and defend and speak forcefully and hopefully effectively on behalf of what all of our ministers were doing and defend their case in a way that perhaps they couldn't because they had to defend a more compromised coalition line... So my take is that I've gone out and got my hands dirty doing exactly that.»

The deputy prime minister vowed to continue on in government, despite the obvious implications of the announcement for the coalition.

09:00 - Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg, before political and constitutional reform committee, on: the coalition government's programme of political and constitutional reform

«Now there's an idea that should appeal to ministers from both coalition parties, but I don't see them limbering up for it,» he commented on his blog.

In the meantime, the deputy prime minister will couple his assault on Labour with that repetition of the coalition's austerity defence.

Nick Clegg has broken ranks with the prime minister on drugs reform, just five days after his coalition partner ruled out a royal commission on decriminalisation.

Similarly, in his remarks to the Commons on 20 March 2011, Prime Minister David Cameron argued that coalition forces had a «just cause» to use force.

Appointed parliamentary secretary for pensions by Winston Churchill, in the coalition government of 1940, she went on to become minister for Education in the landmark Attlee government of 1945, introducing free milk for schoolchildren and raising the school leaving age.

Cabinet Office minister Chloe Smith suggested an exodus of civil servants away from Whitehall could be necessary as the coalition presses on with its deficit reduction agenda.

Polls at the time mistakenly suggested the election was on a knife edge, with Ed Miliband standing a good chance of becoming prime minister of a minority, or coalition government.

But there is, as the prime minister is well aware, no evidence linking Crosby, the prime minister and the coalition's U-turn on plain packs.

Speaking on Saturday, Hassan Omar, the interior minister, said Omar Elmi Khaireh, the opposition coalition (USN) candidate, came second, with seven percent, or 9,400 of the 133,356 votes cast.

The Fixed - term Parliaments Act (FTPA) was introduced by the Conservative - Liberal coalition government in 2011, primarily to prevent David Cameron, the prime minister at the time, from seizing on the first significant poll lead for the Conservatives to call an early election and win a Conservative majority.

«In deference to our Liberal colleagues in the coalition we haven't majored on the phrase,» said Tory minister Oliver Letwin in 2014.

The question remains that when there is another chance to have real impact in general, how far will the deputy prime minister stick to his bold words about the Liberal Democrats «spreading our wings», stamping some sort of authority on the coalition?

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.

Rebellions by Liberal Democrat backbenchers have been sufficiently problematic for the current government that some reasonably argue that the Tories could only rely on Lib Dem ministers in a second coalition.

In a candid interview looking back on his five years as deputy prime minister in the Tory - Lib Dem coalition, Clegg said he found the behaviour of his senior Conservative partner «very unattractive, very cynical».

On Tuesday the former coalition Liberal Democrat minister Sarah Teather warned MPs the labels would «set neighbour against neighbour».

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.

David Cameron became Prime Minister on 11 May after Gordon Brown's resignation and the Liberal Democrats formed a coalition government with the Conservative Party, with Nick Clegg as Deputy Prime Minister and other Liberal Democrats in the cabinet.

Greece's leftist - led coalition will turn to the lightning rod issue of debt relief on Monday at a crucial meeting of eurozone finance ministers following the late - night approval in Athens of laws overhauling the country's tax and pension system.

There was an unholy compromise in the coalition agreement but the Deputy Prime Minister is not even delivering on that compromise.

Asked what odds he would give on the survival of the coalition, the prime minister said: «I am not a big betting man but I wouldn't bet against it.»

The Osborne plan (and the Coalition Agreement) called on Conservative and Liberal Democrat ministers to achieve a cyclically - adjusted target to reduce government debt as a share of national income between 2014 - 15 and 2015 - 16 and, politically and economically most significant, to do so by achieving a budget balance by the end of the Parliament.

Labour shadow ministers who sneered at the idea they might offer Proportional Representation to the Libdems, on the eve of the election, will now have to face the fact that only permanent coalition politics or electoral reform can give them a chance to rule in future.

Lib Dem Coalition ministers do have a number of possible & real allies on equality measures even amongst senior Conservatives (e.g. May & occasionally also Cameron); amicable discussion should be retained in this dimension.

She retained the position of Deputy Minister for Social Services when the coalition government of Labour and Plaid Cymru was announced on 19 July.

On 19 July, speaking in Liverpool, the Prime Minister committed the Coalition to his Big Society programme.

Conservative backbencher Harriett Baldwin, who was instrumental in persuading coalition ministers that a commission was needed on the issue, told politics.co.uk the commission found a «strong public attitude» on the issue.

Others believe that the Lib Dems will now be even more reliant on the coalition formation, given that they would be wiped out if a general election was called, and that the prime minister can now afford to increasingly marginalise his coalition partner.

This would certainly have had an influence on him becoming deputy prime minister, which had never happened previously in this country to the leader of the smaller party in a coalition government.

Evoking memories of the end of the John Major's administration, ministers are pulling up the shutters, with the coalition government spending a third less time on legislation than the last Labour government.

Cameron argued that the coalition was «making progress» on appointing women to top jobs, as almost a quarter of Tory cabinet ministers and one in five frontbenchers are women.

Following the General Election, and after failing to persuade the Lib Dems to form a coalition government with Labour, Gordon Brown resigned as Prime Minister and leader of the party on 11th May 2010.

[87] On 10 May 2010, after talks to form a coalition with the Liberal Democrats broke down, Brown announced his intention to stand down as Leader before the Labour Party Conference but a day later resigned as both Prime Minister and party leader.

Ian Mearns, a Labour member of the Commons education select committee, said the minister was clearly «on a different planet» to the families and youngsters hit by coalition cuts.

Not based on any of the actual policies which he and the coalition are pursuing, as that might suggest otherwise, but simply because of his charm, good manners and false ingratiating behaviour at prime minister's questions.

EU ministers demanded that the three party leaders of the caretaker coalition under Papademos deliver signed pledges on the programme, making them binding and irreversible regardless of who wins an early general election expected in April.