Sentences with phrase «formed after the general election»

Here is the latest nomination in our series highlighting people David Cameron should consider appointing to the House of Lords, since any Conservative administration formed after the general election would be able to call upon the support of the lowest number of Conservative peers in history.

Not exact matches

Whoever forms the next government after the general election, they must prioritise a plan for reducing emissions from all sectors.»

Not only did she have a general election to think about last September, but she also had to contend with six months of cross-party negotiations after the election failed to deliver her ruling Christian Democratic bloc enough seats to form a government.

However, there are points in every parliament's lifecycle when no government can lay claim to such support — between parliamentary dissolution and a general election; after a general election and before the new government is formed; or when an incumbent government loses the confidence of parliament.

The Governor - General must, within 21 days after the date of a notice published in accordance with subsection (1), issue to the Electoral Commission a writ in form 6 requiring the Electoral Commission to make all necessary arrangements for the conduct of a by - election to fill the vacancy.

«It is obvious that more like this in forms of vendetta, calumnies, blasphemies, innuendos and many types of confrontational mechanisms should be expected by the ruling party in Umuahia south before, during and after the 2019 general elections.

Following the election of Tony Blair as Labour leader in July 1994 after the death of his predecessor John Smith, Ashdown pursued co-operation between the two parties because he wanted to form a coalition government should the next general election end without any party having an overall majority.

In an interview with the Guardian, the MP for Hull West and Hessle said that when the Lib Dems came to talk to Labour in May 2010, just after the general election resulted in the first hung parliament in 36 years, he believed the two parties would form a coalition.

These are some of the groups formed by Conservative MPs after the last general election.

[30] This Lib - Lab pact failed to form because Labour's massive majority after the 1997 general election made it an irrelevance for Labour, and because Labour were not prepared to consider the introduction of proportional representation and other Lib Dem conditions.

Although he filed to run as an independent in the general election, he said he was not slated on the ballot after issues were raised about forms he submitted.

Following the General Election, and after failing to persuade the Lib Dems to form a coalition government with Labour, Gordon Brown resigned as Prime Minister and leader of the party on 11th May 2010.

Wilson formed a minority government in March 1974 after the general election on 28 February ended in a hung parliament.

Paul Kenny, general secretary of the GMB union, pointed out that the Conservatives formed a government after the last election despite winning fewer than 40 % of votes.

An analysis by ConservativeHome of those adopted as Tory candidates for the next General Election says that there would likely be fifty to sixty women Tory MPs if the Conservative Party formed a majority after the next General Election.

The third Jones government is a Labour — Liberal Democrat coalition government formed after the results of the 2016 general election in Wales.

Ted Heath remained in office over the weekend after the general election on 28 February 1974, despite winning four seats fewer than Labour, as he tried unsuccessfully to form a coalition with the Liberals.

Clegg resigned after the party's worst performance in a general election since it was formed from the merger of the Liberal party and the Social Democratic party in 1988.

After the inconclusive 2010 General Election the Liberal Democrats and Conservatives formed a coalition.

The Labour Party, led by Harold Wilson, formed a minority government for seven months after the General Election of February 1974.

Theresa May became home secretary in May 2010, after the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats formed a coalition government following the 2010 General Election.

Tony Blair originally formed the Blair ministry in May 1997 after being invited by Queen Elizabeth II to form a new government following the resignation of the previous Prime Minister, John Major of the Conservative Party, as a result of the Labour Party's landslide victory at the 1997 general election.

He became Leader of the House of Commons and Lord Privy Seal on 12 May 2010 after the Conservative Party formed a coalition government with the Liberal Democrats following the 2010 general election.

The announcement by Mattei, a former federal prosecutor who formed an exploratory committee for statewide office earlier this year with an eye toward next year's gubernatorial election, came a week after Attorney General George Jepsen said he would not seek a third term.

After the 2015 general election, Prime Minister David Cameron promoted Gove as Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary in his newly formed Cabinet.

if, after a vote of no confidence, a government can not be formed within 14 days, parliament will be dissolved and a general election held.

In February 1974 — the last instance of a hung parliament following a general election — Labour won 301 seats and the Conservatives 297, but the then Tory prime minister, Edward Heath, remained at Downing Street until the Monday after the election as he tried to form an alliance with the Liberals.

The campaign forms part of the NDC's strategies toward reorganizing its support base and re-energise party faithful as it plans to recapture power in the next general elections to be held in 2020 after suffering a humiliating defeat in the general elections held on December 7, 2016 at the hands of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP).

It is not so much that Corbyn can not form the a Labour Party governemnt after the General Election - it is that it is unlikely even to remain as the Official Opposition!

The group was formed immediately before the 2010 general election, with funding from the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust, hoping that there would be opportunities to push for electoral reform after the election.

It warned that whoever formed the next government after the general election would have to tackle an escalating shortage of places.

The new committee, formed after June's general election, met for the first time this week to agree its programme of work.