Sentences with phrase «coalition with labour»

The first minister pointed out that Estyn's report covered a period when Plaid was in coalition with Labour.

There are also indications that the Liberal Democrat leadership is willing to make compromises to preserve its coalition with Labour in the Scottish parliament.

«By 48 % to 19 %, Lib Dem members prefer coalition with Labour Main Teachers» unions attack the Government for today's A-level results, businesses praise them - who would you trust?»

Little pointer for the future that many people don't realise — The Lib Dems have already stated in this conference and again in interview in the Sunday Times — they will not enter into coalition with Labour if Miliband is leader — he will have to stand down.

He says he worked for a Labour MP when he left university, spent his adult life trying to defeat Tories and acknowledges for the first time that when coalition negotiations began «I was one who argued that we should explore a coalition with Labour».

Goldie made the best of a bad job in declaring the Scots Conservatives would have nothing to do with coalitions - the SNP are constitutionally unable to work with Conservatives, a coalition with Labour beyond anything but a national emergency and the Scots Lib Dems would only talk to us in the direst of situations.

However, there is a younger generation of LibDems who are very hostile to this idea of a coalition with Labour.

Clegg has always insisted he made a deal with the Conservatives because he believed it would not be possible to form a stable coalition with Labour due to the two being unable to command an overall majority.

The SNP have already clearly stated (repeatedly) they will not go into coalition with Labour.

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».

But if they do so, Mr Clegg is going to have a hard time explaining to interviewers — and voters — that he would be ready to form a coalition with Labour when he has repeatedly called them economically reckless.

The Liberal Democrats, Greens and UKIP would be very wary of going into a pre-election (or post election) coalition with a Labour party that has suddenly seen the light on electoral reform.

7.36 pm: Could he be in a coalition with Labour?

• Clegg has declined to rule out a coalition with Labour after the election.

If the SNP had enough seats to form a coalition with Labour and Salmond were an MP, there is a chance he could be given a senior role in the government like Nick Clegg, who became the Liberal Democrat deputy prime minister in 2010.

Tim Farron MP is asked whether he and his party would prefer to be in coalition with Labour rather than the Conservatives.

She says the key aspect of Norman Lamb MP's contribution was «that he says a future coalition with Labour is possible if they were one day ever able to show they had moved on from the policy platforms of New Labour»»

By 1931, as the economy headed towards crisis, both in Britain and around the world, with the onset of the Great Depression, Baldwin and the Conservatives entered into a coalition with Labour Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald.

He writes: «It was clear that if we went into coalition with Labour, we would not be establishing a new government, we would be chaining ourselves to a decaying corpse.

«If the Coalition burns out we will want to regroup and would hope to go into coalition with Labour.

But Clegg had earlier told Cameron that the negotiations with Miliband showed why he did not want to enter a coalition with the Labour, despite the fact that Labour and the Lib Dems were closer on press reform.

That survey also showed that 44 % backed a future coalition with Labour, with 14 % wanting to carry on with the Conservatives.

Yet it has also said it is open to a coalition with Labour.

It was clear that if we went into coalition with Labour, we would not be establishing a new government, we would be chaining ourselves to a decaying corpse.

Obviously, we haven't been in coalition with Labour.

While it is widely assumed that Clegg and some of his colleagues, like Alexander and Laws, would be putting the Conservatives second on an STV ballot paper, it is clear that activists and supporters, by a margin of 2 to 1, would rather see the Lib Dems in coalition with Labour.

And he was not surprised the survey showed twice as many would prefer a future coalition with Labour than the Conservatives.

Oakeshott has clearly backed those Lib Dem candidates he hopes are probably more likely to want to go into coalition with Labour than the Tories, but he stresses his donation has been entirely unconditional.

«But Plaid Cymru are equally guilty here, as it was one of their ministers while in Coalition with Labour who seemingly continued this land purchasing programme, and failed to sell these assets off when the project was supposed to have been cancelled.

As his diaries reveal, Paddy Ashdown ardently sought a coalition with Labour after 1997, which might have happened had the Labour majority not been so large.

In Wales, Plaid is self - critical for its dalliance in coalition with a Labour Party that, under Rhodri Morgan, retained a modicum of «clear red water» against Westminster and just held on to Assembly power, despite the British electoral disaster.

With mutterings of Clegg's removal, either by his own party, or by force of having to enter into coalition with Labour — who would be more likely to do a deal without him at the helm, and with Vince Cable or even Tim Farron instead — had some wondering if Clegg's forward - looking speech was a little unrealistic.

One - third of Lib Dem voters said the party had sold out on its principles and the same proportion would have preferred a coalition with Labour.

Not least when the most likely way we'd end up in government was in coalition with Labour or the Conservatives, who were both committed to put fees up.

«Cable remains popular both in the parliamentary party and among activists, and would be the ideal leader to enter coalition with Labour, which would be the preference of most party members,» he said.

Since 2007 he has been deputy first minister working in coalition with Labour.

He could had pushed for a coalition with Labour and minor parties on condition that PR is implemented as soon as possible, but now it's out of his hands.

If the Lib Dems went straight into coalition with Labour, it would be a naked power - grab with no justification, hence the need to give the Tories the first shot.

The LibDem leader knows that he can't rule out a coalition with Labour or he'll risk losing a large number of his left - leaning voters.

What is now clear is that Clegg, Laws and Danny Alexander never had any intention of forming a coalition with the Labour.

The more seats a party or grouping has, the more chance it has of forming a government - with 198 seats out of 646 the Conservative Party could only form a government if significant numbers of other MP's decided to back them, as happened in 1924 when there was a situation that the Conservatives didn't want to form a coalition with either other main party and equally the Liberals didn't want a coalition with Labour and the Liberals and Conservatives saw it as an opportunity to allow Labour into government but in a situation in which legislation was still reliant on Liberal and Conservative votes and they could be brought down at the most suitable time, supposing the notional gains were accurate and in the improbable event of the next election going exactly the same way in terms of votes then 214 out of 650 is 32.93 % of seats compared to at 198 out of 646 seats - 30.65 % of seats and the Conservative Party would then be 14 seats closer towards a total neccessary to form a government allowing for the greater number of seats, on the one hand the Conservatives need Labour to fail but equally they need to succeed themselves given that the Liberal Democrats appear likely to oppose anyone forming a government who does not embark on a serious programme to introduce PR, in addition PC & SNP would expect moves towards Independence for Scotland and Wales, the SDLP will be likely to back Labour and equally UKIP would want a committment to withdraw from Europe and anyway will be likely to be in small numbers if any, pretty much that leaves cutting a deal with the DUP which would only add the backing of an extra 10 - 13 MP's.

After leading the party through the second Holyrood elections in 2003 Elections, again winning 17 MSPs but with a higher share of the vote, he led the party into a second coalition with Labour.

There are three outcomes that should be playing on his mind: a second coalition with the Conservatives, a new coalition with Labour, and a return to opposition.

As mentioned, the SNP have appeared warmer to the idea of a Coalition with Labour than anyone else.

Perhaps surprisingly, he does not rule out a coalition with Labour next time.

Balls proceeds to make an unusual invitation, not least coming from someone regarded as a tribal Labour figure: he invites Liberal Democrat MPs to form a coalition with Labour now.

With a hung parliament looking increasingly likely, an opportunistic Salmond has ruled out joining any formal coalition with Labour or the Tories.

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.

If they had formed a coalition with Labour they would have supported an entirely different economic plan in return for similar concessions on other policies.

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.