Sentences with phrase «first majority government»

Elected at the fourth federal election in 1910, it was the first majority Labor government and the first majority government since Federation in 1901.

In the wake of Labour's second defeat at the Scottish Parliament election of May 2011, which saw the Scottish National Party (SNP) form its first majority government, Gray announced his intention to step down as leader of the Labour MSPs later that year.

Delivering one nation Conservative government, making this country the most dynamic economy in Europe and with his own brand of compassionate Conservative that rightly earned his party the first majority government for decades.»

Expect endless stories about the Conservative leadership — articles which arguably distract from what the Tories will be getting up to in their first majority government in many young voters» lives.

When he landed in Vancouver, Canada last month he was treated like a rock star by thousands of South Asians clamoring for just a peek at the man leading India's first majority government in 30 years.

Not exact matches

When Justin Trudeau's Liberals won an unexpected majority government last October, Canadian First Nations and environmentalists cheered, while oil and gas executives groaned.

The Conservative government's first efforts to pass it in the last parliament were frustrated by its Liberal Democrat coalition partners, but the bill has been revived in a slightly watered - down version since the Conservatives won a majority in May's general elections.

The bank, which is majority - owned by the U.K. government, saw its first profit in a decade last February.

Kinsella later accepted blame for the defeat, the party's first time without a majority government in the province in 42 years.

That's because nearly all members of Canada's vast punditocracy have declared that a minority government is, first, inherently unstable, and second, disappointing for Harper insofar as it is not the majority he is said to have wanted when he called the election.

The 5 - to - 4 decision was a vindication, the majority said, of the First Amendment's most basic free speech principle — that the government has no business regulating political speech.

First, it spends a majority of its time educating lawmakers, including giving classes to government staffers on how to send cryptocurrency transactions or informing congressional hearings of public blockchains» potential to create a better society.

First, the debt ceiling will expire around election time, so the government will face another shutdown and it will be politically brutal to assemble a majority in a lame duck session to raise it by the trillions that will be needed.

While the majority of countries of Northern Europe elected governments of the right applying various versions of the neo-liberal program, in the south of the continent - it means in countries which were governed by Franco, Salazar, De Gaulle, the Greek colonels - arrived for the first time to power governments of the left.

«It would also be unwise to conclude that only those religious words acceptable to the majority are permissible, for the First Amendment is not a majority rule and government may not seek to define permissible categories of religious speech»

In 1994, in a first amendment case, Justice David Souter, writing for the majority, concluded that «government should not prefer one religion to another, or religion to irreligion.»

The people who speak most often about the sanctity of human life should have been the very first to champion the right of people with AIDS to adequate healthcare rather than lobbying against government expenditure for AIDS research, as did the Moral Majority.

For the first time, a majority of the country's public school students — 51 percent of them, to be precise — fell below the federal government's threshold for being «low income,» meaning they were eligible for a free or subsidized school lunch.

In 2013, for the first time, a majority of public - school students in this country — 51 percent, to be precise — fell below the federal government's low - income cutoff, meaning they were eligible for a free or subsidized school lunch.

«I think one of the things, at least in my experience in my seven years in the Senate with the majority or the co-majority for two of the years, where we've been successful is that we've always put government first,» Gallican said.

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«I welcome the prime minister's decision to give the British people the chance to vote for a government that will put the interests of the majority first.

Klein can over play his hand one way: Being seen as denying significant power to Sen. Andrea Stewart - Cousins, the Democratic minority leader who would be the first black woman to hold the majority leader post in state government.

The first comment to make is that a Tory majority government has been less radical and much less competent in its first year than the Tory / Lib Dem coalition at the same stage.

The Labour leader said: «I welcome the prime minister's decision to give the British people the chance to vote for a government that will put the interests of the majority first.»

With neither Labour nor the Conservatives likely to be capable of forming a majority government and given the SNP's fragmented unionist opponents north of the border, Britain's first - past - the - post electoral system could allow Nicola Sturgeon's party to exact a high price for support of a government in the Commons.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn responded by saying that his party wanted the election, calling it a chance to get a government that puts «the majority first».

Steawart - Cousins would be the first African - American woman to lead a majority conference in state government.

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.

The first majority Conservative Government in almost 25 years.

The local government elections on 3 May 2018 will be the first big test of voters» opinion since they deprived the Conservatives of their majority in parliament last June.

To be sure, a majority says it wants the government to swap spending cuts for a focus on economic growth, but that has more to do with the second part of that trade - off than the first.

As the Chancellor George Osborne announces his first budget under a majority Conservative government, the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) provides its reaction to today's Budget.

Sturgeon requires the continuing support of unionist voters, happy to back the SNP in government if not to endorse their view on the future of the UK, if she is to repeat her party's trick of winning an overall majority in a parliament elected under a system that's part first - past - the - post and part proportional representation.

The Conservatives» remarkable success in converting coalition into majority government is down to two factors: this was the first governing party to increase its vote share after a full term in office for more than a century and it succeeded in concentrating that vote increase in the seats where it counted.

In 2010 the first - past - the - post system failed to deliver a single - party majority government and it is very unlikely to deliver a stable coalition government in 2015.

Polls are judged first and foremost on whether they correctly indicate which party will form the next government and, as the chart below shows, were the Conservatives not to win an overall majority on June 8, we would be looking at a polling miss of unprecedented magnitude.

The Whig government, backed by royal favour and controlling the levers of power, was able to maintain a series of majorities through the infrequent elections of the next several decades (only 7 in the 46 years of the first two Georges, as opposed to 11 in the 26 years from the Revolution to the death of Queen Anne).

In his first statement outside Number 10, David Cameron said that as the head of a majority government he can deliver all of his manifesto.

In 2010 the first - past - the - post system failed to deliver a single - party majority government and it is very unlikely to...

In elections for the Scottish Parliament — which, incidentally, have delivered coalition governments, a minority government and now single - party majority government — 73 of the 129 MSPs are elected by first - past - the - post voting and 56 by regional lists.

After the Conservatives won an overall majority in the 2015 general election, Cameron reappointed him Chancellor in his second government and gave him the additional title of First Secretary of State.

While it may later revive electoral reform should it fail to win a majority in 2020, Labour may decide not to adopt pre-emptive commitments on this issue before first testing the water to see if it can form a single - party government.

The second issue is how clear it will be that the party first attempting to form a government is likely to be able to command a majority.

Whatever people may think of New Labour's achievements, faults and mistakes, there is an enormous difference between the timidity with which a government with a majority of 170 + proceeded in its first term, carefully implementing its incremental manifesto but always looking over its shoulder in search of the «daily mandate», and the astonishing bullishness of this Coalition despite the hung parliament.

(f) The final option would be if both Labour and the Conservatives were too far from an overall majority to form a government without the Liberal Democrats, and that the Lib Dems (coming either first or second in the popular vote, though still third in number of seats) decide not to allow either to form a functioning government.

He had the courage to defy his party's left - leaning majority and take the Liberals into government for the first time since the Second World War.

It is the first time a Conservative government has not also dominated the second chamber, as the House of Lords Act 1999 removed the majority of hereditary peers, many of whom were Tory supporters.

The 2015 General Election saw a Conservative majority government returned (al biet on a minority of the vote) for the first time since 1992.

The chamber is more political than ever before, a coalition for the first time guaranteeing a government majority.