Sentences with phrase «hung parliament scenario»

Andrew Rawnsley, referring to another hung parliament scenario, explained why yesterday:

In the same month that party leader Nick Clegg publicly insisted he was not the «kingmaker» in the general election his aides were secretly planning how to deal with the hung parliament scenario which eventually emerged.

Yesterday a Conservative MP's book on the formation of the coalition revealed details of the Lib Dems» pre-election planning for a hung parliament scenario.

I am not an expert but I imagine the LibDem party would talk to other parties as relevant in a hung parliament scenario, even if a coalition or any less formal kind of arrangement might well not result from that.

Eighty - nine per cent of members backed Mr Clegg's approach to the hung parliament scenario - that he should let the party with the most votes and the most seats try and form a government.

Despite his party's disappointing performance on election night, the hung parliament scenario gave Nick Clegg the «kingmaker» powers he had so frequently rejected.

That's because in a hung parliament scenario there's no requirement for the prime minister to resign immediately.

I thought that put it quite strongly, especially as there would not in most hung parliament scenarios probably be two alternative coalition options possible.

Not exact matches

Combined with the expectation of a slight incumbency boost — that same bump the Conservatives have been praying for months for now - a hung parliament with the Tories as the largest party seems a plausible scenario.

I suspect rather too much discussion of hung Parliaments assumes the scenario is always one where the LibDems can put either party over the majority line.

As the opinion polls and betting markets suggest the 2010 General Election will result in a hung parliament, independent political analyst Greg Callus analyses for Channel 4 News the potential scenarios the parties face.

In a hung parliament situation the most likely scenario is another election a few months later and until we have a different electoral system it will ever be thus.

Mr Clegg refused to rule out the possibility of a coalition between Labour and the Lib Dems in the scenario of a hung parliament, however.

I still stand by what I have said previously, that a hung parliament with Labour as the largest party, is the most likely scenario in 2015.