Sentences with phrase «coalition with plaid»

It has been in coalition with Plaid for four years and, on the Left especially, through initiatives such as Celyn and anti-cuts campaigns, there is plenty of contact between activists in the two parties.

However, on 6 July 2007, Welsh Labour Party members voted for a coalition with Plaid, which was followed by a similar result from Plaid Cymru members the next day.

The coalition with Plaid has delivered Left policies and that's why Labour is riding high.

However, some senior figures in Welsh Labour are known privately to favour a coalition with Plaid -LSB-...]

It enters into a One Wales coalition with Plaid, which win a quarter of the vote.

Labour originally sought to form a coalition with Plaid Cymru and the Liberal Democrats, but this collapsed after Mike German's Lib Dems pulled out of talks.

Not exact matches

Plaid leader Ieuan Wyn Jones then attempted to lead a coalition government, entering into talks with the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives.

Dafis was a Member of Parliament for Ceredigion from 1992 until 2000, having been supported by a coalition of local Plaid Cymru and Green party activists, the latter of which had worked with him on a number of environmental initiatives.

«There had been serious negotiations between the three non-Labour parties — Plaid Cymru, the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats — with a view to forming a «rainbow» coalition.

Plaid formed a coalition with Labour, making progress on a referendum on further powers the key plank of their negotiations.

The Labour - Plaid Cymru coalition government has been formalised, with three Plaid Cymru AMs invited into the Welsh Cabinet.

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

Plaid is certain to be reluctant to enter a coalition once more after their electoral beating this time round, while a Labour pact with the Tories is highly unlikely.

Having ruled in coalition with nationalist Plaid Cymru for the past four years, Mr Jones will have to decide whether to govern through this slim majority or seek coalition partners once more.

«I don't have a solution, but as Plaid Cymru found out in the One Wales Agreement with Labour, it's often difficult for junior partners in coalitions to retain ownership of policies.

Plaid AMs last night agreed to stop coalition talks with Labour after accusing leader Rhodri Morgan of arrogance.

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.

Whilst Labour were initially unable to form a coalition with the Liberal Democrats, a «Rainbow Coalition» of the Conservative Party (UK), Liberal Democrats and Plaid Cymru failed to come to coalition with the Liberal Democrats, a «Rainbow Coalition» of the Conservative Party (UK), Liberal Democrats and Plaid Cymru failed to come to Coalition» of the Conservative Party (UK), Liberal Democrats and Plaid Cymru failed to come to fruition.

«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.

Plaid Cymru ruled itself out of having a coalition with the Conservatives on an ideological basis.

This changed in 2007 when the Welsh Conservatives were briefly involved in coalition talks after the indecisive 2007 Welsh election on a «rainbow coalition» with the Welsh Liberal Democrats and Plaid Cymru which collapsed after the Liberal Democrats backed out.

I suspect when you state people are going for the nationalist then state Plaid your not taking into account the mess Plaid made going into coalition with Welsh Labour, they like the Liberals became the mouth piece for Labour forgetting everything people had voted for them.

This is a perfect opportunity for a win - win deal with Plaid Cymru, with whom Labour is currently in coalition, or with the Greens.

It's also worth noting that a rainbow coalition held together by the SNP and Plaid votes would probably get English people (who consistently vote Tory on average) angry enough to leave the union... as things are, I think it is the case that there is more support for Scottish independence in England than there is in Scotland, partly because of the West Lothian question, partly because the Barret formula is (rightly) seen as subsidizing the Scots with (quite a lot of) English tax payers cash...

Mr Cameron's arrival in Downing Street means that the two parties in coalition in the assembly government - Labour and Plaid - will have to work with a UK government run by two different parties.

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