Sentences with phrase «in a hung parliament when»

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At the same time, not many audiences would be quite so anoraked as to hit the host with a barrage of questions about majorities and departmental carve - ups when he asks, in a moment of audience interaction, what Nick Clegg should do if faced with another hung parliament.

This principle was revived in the first draft of the Cabinet Manual ahead of the 2010 election, when the polls were predicting a hung parliament.

It might be true on the economy, but in so many other areas the nightmares of a hung parliament — the «manana» attitude when agreement simply isn't achievable — are very real.

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 coalitioIn 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 coalitioin May 2010, just after the general election resulted in the first hung parliament in 36 years, he believed the two parties would form a coalitioin the first hung parliament in 36 years, he believed the two parties would form a coalitioin 36 years, he believed the two parties would form a coalition.

The play is set in 1974, when the UK faced economic crisis and a hung parliament: «This country is being kept alive on aspirin when what it needs is electric shock therapy.»

When no single party can get enough MPs to form a majority on its own in a general election, parliament is said to be «hung».

The speech comes on a day when all three main parties focus on policy issues, in a bid to escape the protracted debate over a hung parliament.

The Tory leader expressed his hope and belief that public support for a hung parliament is waning after a burst of enthusiasm when Nick Clegg gained the early momentum in the campaign.

The tradition in the United Kingdom appears to be that single party government is the norm, even when a general election leads to a hung Parliament, and that the largest single party, rather than participate in a coalition government, usually forms its own ministry, supported tacitly or openly by one of the smaller parties.

We were ensuring that party communications were rather more effective than they were in the hung Parliament of 1974, when Edward Heath's office tried to contact Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe on Election night, only to be told: «He's not available right now.

The new leadership was unveiled yesterday on yet another breathless day at Westminster, when Cameron and his deputy prime minister Clegg held a joint press conference in which both displayed equal enthusiasm for turning their shotgun marriage brought about by a hung parliament, into a genuine partnership.

Before that the last hung parliament was in 1974, when Tory Ted Heath just edged out Labour's Harold Wilson.

An issue which has caught my eye is the increasing tendency for some tabloid newspapers to push their agenda to toughen up the backbone of the floggers and hangers in Parliament, throw some red meat to their readership and bring pressure to bear on The Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State by pushing «editorial» or stories on how we are going to the dogs when it comes to criminal justice.