Sentences with phrase «coalition with clegg»

Anyway, to get back on track, a coalition with Clegg would be disgraceful.

The shadow chancellor on why he could go into coalition with Clegg, why airport expansion in the UK is essential for growth and why history will judge Gordon Brown kindly.

Would Balls be prepared to enter coalition with Clegg?

Not exact matches

As mischievous and calculating as ever, the Dark Lord is telling his old friend the Prime Minister to play hard to get with Nick Clegg in secret coalition talks.

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.

The row is increasingly splitting the coalition down the middle, with Nick Clegg adopting a markedly more critical response than the Tory home secretary.

Clegg took care to criticise his partners in coalition, including a forced jibe about Cameron which he made with a pained expression on his face.

Cameron is indeed in No 10, but he won without a majority and was forced to form a coalition with Nick Clegg.

The deputy prime minister Matt Cooper (comedian Thom Tuck)-- more of a perpetually enraged and contorting Basil Fawlty - cum - Mark Corrigan than Nick Clegg sombrely going down with his ship — is playing what he calls «coalition chess» with No 10, but is inevitably being played all along.

While the Coalition might seem like a child of necessity, to some in his own party Cameron appeared just a little too keen on the settlement, with the rose garden love - in of May 2010 seeming to confirm Cameron and Clegg as natural bedfellows.

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.

David Cameron and Nick Clegg's long - planned coalition reboot was hit by their vulnerability to an omnishambles today, when the government's leader in the House of Lords announced his resignation with immediate effect.

Under the coalition, then foreign secretaries William Hague and then Philip Hammond were made to share with deputy prime minister Nick Clegg.

David Cameron has denied misleading Conservative MPs during coalition talks with the Liberal Democrats, insisting he did not tell them Labour was offering Nick Clegg's party electoral reform without a referendum.

Though his manifesto launch offered voters a deft soundbite - Lib Dems will give Labour brains and the Tories heart - Clegg has struck an uncertain note this week, sometimes sounding as if he would prefer to lose than enter coalition talks with Miliband.

In his book 5 Days in May, Andrew Adonis goes so far as to argue that the Liberal Democrats formed a coalition with the Conservatives rather than Labour not because of the parliamentary arithmetic was considerably better but instead because Nick Clegg and David Laws especially were ideologically closer and personally warmer to the Tories than to Labour.

He said Clegg «had made clear his hostility to Labour and his preference to side with the Tories in a coalition if this arises.

Nick Clegg was steadfast in his commitment to the coalition, with a firm message on the deficit.

During the coalition, Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister, had joint use of it with the foreign secretary, first William Hague and then Philip Hammond.

Nick Clegg yesterday ruled out the Liberal Democrats going into coalition with Labour if it depended on «life support» from the SNP.

Clegg wanted Cable to speak in favour of the call not to break from the coalition's agreed deficit reduction plan, with his aides pointing out that the deputy prime minister expected all Lib Dem MPs to turn up for the vote.

Nick Clegg clearly wants another coalition with the Conservatives.

But my nightmare is that, when we get a hung parliament, Clegg will (predictably) choose the wrong option and form a coalition with the Tories.

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 coalition must be dismantled in some way, perhaps with Clegg standing down as an MP to become Britain's next EU commissioner.

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.

In the interview Clegg also suggested that any «coalition of the losers» formed by the second largest party would lack «legitimacy» and he declared his intention to speak exclusively to the largest party first and only negotiate with the second largest party if talks with the first failed.

Clegg has indicated that he would not forge a coalition with Labour should it come third in the popular vote — as it is currently placed in opinion polls.

Senior figures were stunned when, two weeks before the election, Clegg suddenly suggested to the FT that he would not form a coalition with Labour if it involved any arrangement with the SNP.

The collapse of coalition plans for an elected second chamber — with formal last rites likely to delivered next week by a rueful Nick Clegg — is triggering another bout of speculation about the survival of the coalition.

High - February 15th: Hedging their bets - A Guardian report that Clegg would rule himself out of a coalition in the event of a hung parliament was quickly rebutted, leaving the position clarified and enabling party activists to go about their jobs with the position clear in their heads.

She also explained that while Nick Clegg took a risk with his reputation in participating in the debates, his initiative for the debates could be explained by the Liberal Democrat's need to appeal to traditional Liberal Democrat voters, who tend to be more pro-European; and many of those voters turned away from the Liberal Democrats when the party entered coalition in 2010.

Following the general election of 2010, the Liberal Democrats formed a coalition government with the Conservatives, resulting in party leader Nick Clegg becoming the Deputy Prime minister and many other members becoming ministers.

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It not only deprived him of seats that are rightly his, it undermines any hope that Clegg will be able to carry his party into a second coalition with Cameron in a future hung parliament — a parliament which is now more likely because of the failure of boundary changes.

Some are voting tactically in seats where it is a two horse race, others are looking for a new electoral home after the betrayal of Nick Clegg in entering a coalition with the Tories.

Winning this vote would be a shock defeat for Nick Clegg and Danny Alexander, and a clear indication that the membership is much more inclined to a coalition with Labour post 2015.

The view that the Liberal Democrats will be «wiped out» is a result of declining popularity for the Liberal Democrat and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg since entering into coalition government with the Conservatives.

Much better for the Queen to let Brown have his go, then Cameron and then... why, that nice Mr. Clegg, who might just be able to form a coalition with Labour support.

If verified in the final vote, that could prove difficult for coalition relations, with Nick Clegg losing one of the big rewards keeping his MPs in line.

But Mr Clegg was more detailed in his assessment of his relationship with the prime minister, with whom he becomes increasingly close as the coalition continues.

Such moves could appear to leave party leader Nick Clegg, who is seen by many voters as being wholly associated with his coalition partner David Cameron, extremely isolated.

As the confusion over the green levies plan threatened to poison coalition relations, senior Tories were reacting with astonishment at the strength with which Clegg was pursuing his new crusade against free schools.

If Clegg were to approach Cameron for a coalition government on the condition of a referendum on PR, that implies that Clegg would do coalitions with Conservatives in the future, under PR.

The Conservatives, led by David Cameron, pledged to abolish the Human Rights Act if they were elected to power and replace it with a British Bill of Rights; Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats on the other hand were adamant the HRA would not be repealed, creating something of a dilemma for the Coalition.

Liberal Democrat activists would prefer a coalition with Labour after the next general election with Vince Cable taking over from Nick Clegg, two new surveys have found.

(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.

In terms that may deepen unease among Lib Dems unhappy with the coalition, Clegg uses an interview with the Observer to heap praise on Cameron as a «big politician» who fully understands how to share power.

(c) But if Labour fall to third in the popular vote, it must either enter coalition with the Lib Dems with Nick Clegg taking 10 Downing Street and Labour being the larger - but - junior partner in coalition, or find a new leader who will not be «squatting» in Number 10 having led the government to disastrous defeat.

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.