Sentences with phrase «events in parliament»

He appears on top of the material, and the fast pace of events in parliament has forced him to think on his feet.

I am not at all sure that the reduction and equalisation of seats will be in the Tory manifesto, given events in this Parliament, but the priority which members give to the move reflects their frustration and anger with how the Liberal Democrats behaved.

Our news story on Wednesday followed events in parliament as Michael Gove faced a committee of MPs minutes after news broke of a barristers strike.

The surveys of just over 1,000 people each were conducted between Monday and Wednesday this week before Thursday's events in parliament which may see the election brought forward slightly.

The Labour deputy leader will use a roundtable event in parliament to call for more steps to even up the gender gap between men and women on our television screens.

The fight to be the Tory candidate for Kensington & Chelsea is becoming a fixed event in every parliament.

One friend, Roger Helmer MEP, is hosting an event in the Parliament this November to illuminate the economic harms.

Not exact matches

In the event of a hung parliament, the Italian constitution specifies no time limit for parties to reach an agreement or call a fresh election.

Although the Council's stance on this element of the incoming data protection regulation won't become official until member states agree on the whole thing — an event that will trigger negotiations with the European Parliament — it does represent a major step forward, as the nature of the one - stop - shop mechanism has been the major sticking point in reaching overall agreement.

For the next week, the federal Liberals will be holding their annual «Summer Caucus» in Edmonton and the party's 37 Members of Parliament be criss - crossing the Canadian West, hosting events, promoting local candidates and knocking on doors.

Richard Reddie highlights the key events that led to the historic vote by the British parliament exactly 200 years ago to outlaw the slave trade, in this... More

Since the special events held in 1993 in India, Britain, Japan, the USA and some other countries to mark the centenary of the World's Parliament of Religions there has been growing emphasis on the practical work that people of different faiths can do together to address the critical issues of today, such as violence, poverty and pollution.

By far the most dramatic event to stimulate American interest in the religions of the world was the World Parliament of Religions, held in Chicago in 1893 in connection with the Columbian Exposition.

Also speaking at the event — Global Warming and Food Policy: Less Meat = Less Heat — held in the iconic Hemicycle in the Brussels Parliament, will be Dr Rajendra K. Pachauri, chairman of the nobel - prize - winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and Olivier de Schutter, the UN Special Rapporteur for the right to food.

The main events in Britain at the time (the miners» strikes and riots, the murder of Suffragettes outside parliament, the secret closing of the torpedo factory at Woolwich etc etc) all combine with the events at Woolwich Arsenal FC.

Speaking at the event, BMC spokesperson Anne Fox said: «It is essential that we have the support of MPs to ensure that every opportunity is taken in Parliament to support initiatives to improve breastfeeding rates in the UK.

«There's been a lot of discussion on the fringe of this conference about our party's next steps; about our relationship with the other parties; and about what we should do in the event of another hung parliament,» he said.

The civil service were supposed to clarify matters by producing a rulebook, the Cabinet Manual, which includes a whole chapter on government formation in the event of a hung parliament.

Both Mr Brown and Mr Cameron have attempted to court Mr Clegg in the early weeks of his leadership, with the Liberal Democrats set to hold the balance of power in the event of a hung parliament.

It happens in Parliament, at public events and in the media directly.

Electoral reform is a precondition of Lib Dem support in the event of a hung parliament, but David Cameron remains opposed to the idea, despite not ruling out a referendum.

The second - longest running MP entered parliament in 1970 but said the «unhappy events» of last year had encouraged him to «hand the torch» to someone younger.

The full report, Government Formation in the Event of a Hung Parliament: The UK's recognition rules in comparative context, can be downloaded here.

I hope we get a Lib Dem - Tory coalition in the event of a hung parliament.

The history of this event was described by Caroline Shenton, then Director of the Parliamentary Archives, in her superb book The Day Parliament Burned Down (2012).

Making a statement in parliament on Friday July 21 about the current state of the park ahead of the commemoration of the event today, he questioned why managers of the park had left it to deteriorate.

There is a sense of deja - vu with events in Ukraine excepting that Western backing this time round lies with the pro-Western and nationalist opposition in parliament.

But there is uncertainty associated with all the forecasts and some forecasters are trying to estimate the extent of that uncertainty, which in turn can be used to calculate probabilities of particular events (hung parliament, largest party, etc..)

Events like some of those described here — with six Supreme Court judges annulling a national election on flimsy if not illegal grounds, Parliament deliberately disrespecting the overwhelming result of a constitutional referendum — are simply not supposed to happen in a democracy.

The NDC General Secretary, Johnson Asiedu Nketiah; Minority leader, Haruna Iddrisu; Former Chief of Staff, Julius Debrah; Member of Parliament for Tamale Central, Inusah Fuseini; MP for Tamale North, Alhassan Suhuyini, and a former Northern Regional Minister, Moses Bukari Mabengba were among the party bigwigs that participated in the event.

I have been trying in recent weeks to publicise in my blog and in LabourList the little - known procedures in the event of a hung parliament, under which whatever the results in votes and seats, Gordon Brown will be both entitled and obliged to continue in office until he has met parliament as prime minister and ascertained by the vote on his Queen's Speech whether he still commands a majority in the House.

Although he may have solved a short term problem, the only long term thing Cameron might have achieved is making a Labour - Liberal Democrat coalition even more likely in the event of another hung parliament.

Mr Cable admitted it would be «difficult to work with the Conservatives or Labour» in the event of a hung Parliament, but added that it was the Liberal Democrat's mindset to show «we can work with other parties in the national interest».

One event which could well kick start a movement towards electoral reform would be a hung parliament resulting in a Labour Lib - Dem coalition.

The «vow» that the main UK party leaders made to boost the powers of the Scottish parliament in the days before the independence referendum started a sequence of events that will see welfare benefits vary...

Home Secretary Amber Rudd has been heavily criticised after failing to attend parliament to answer questions over her controversial decision not to hold an inquiry into events at Orgreave in 1984.

The Lib Dems insisted that Clegg's remarks were being over-interpreted, and he was merely rejecting the constitutional assumption that the prime minister in the event of a hung parliament would always have the first opportunity to try to form a minority government.

Kicking off a series of events that will extend into dawn on Sunday, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim told a special session of parliament that 15 July 2016 was a «second War of Independence», following the conflict that led to the creation of the modern state in the 1920s.

James Murdoch was recalled to answer questions in parliament today, after his own employees questioned his version of events in the phone - hacking row.

I couldn't event get the bloody parliament to agree on removal of data retention after all these rulings that have been happening in the EU.

His rhetoric about Labour and the Lib Dems» similarities on tax and public services was never far away from courting them in the event of a hung parliament.

«I'm not the king - maker,» he told every journalist asking what the Lib Dems would do in the event of a hung parliament, «It's the people who are the king - makers.»

That would be good enough to save some 40 to 45 Lib Dem seats and give the party leverage in the event of a second hung parliament.

Speaking of grown - up politics, I ask whether she would ever consider working with Ed Miliband in the event of a hung parliament.

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.

It seeped into the public's consciousness, and was difficult to handle without insulting the intelligence of the electorate — because of course left - of - centre parties would at least talk to one another in the event of a hung parliament.

His comments were a friendly warning about what to expect in terms of post-election processes in the event of another hung parliament, and what to expect of the incumbent prime minister while those processes play out.

It broke the mould first in 2001 by gaining the right to have live music at events on Parliament's terrace, and continues to host four highly - praised jazz events each year.

The events of October 1834 are now told in an informative but entertaining way by parliamentary archivist Caroline Shenton, in The Day Parliament Burned Down (OUP, # 20).

Labour's deputy leader Harriet Harman has since made clear in an interview with the Independent newspaper that she is not a supporter of «cosying up» to the Liberal Democrats, on the basis that Labour may rely on the Lib Dems in the event of another hung parliament in 2015.