Sentences with phrase «influence over parliament»

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Though the National Front has had trouble raising money for the campaign (Le Pen had to borrow money from her estranged father) and she has also been ordered to pay back over # 250,000 to the European Parliament over fake EU parliamentary assistant jobs — none of it seems to have an influence on the determination of her supporters.

The London Health Commission, set up by Boris Johnson last year under ex-Labour health minister Lord Darzi, has called on the mayor to make bylaws banning smoking in Trafalgar Square and Parliament Square and exert influence over the royal parks, where he appoints the board, to also ban smoking in their spaces.

In exchange for confidence - and - supply support, a minor party would expect some influence over government policy, which is usually announced in a Queen's speech at the opening of parliament.

Over the past two decades, UKIP has gained considerable influence in the European Parliament.

In this way, he could have exerted just as much influence over government policy, his integrity would have remained intact and there would almost certainly be substantially more Lib Dem MPs than there are in parliament today.

It confirms that whether or not a Bill becomes an Act is ultimately a matter for Parliament rather than the government, although it is a matter over which the government has much influence given its control of the Parliamentary timetable and its majority in the elected chamber.

Rather than seeing the SEA process as a decision - making tool the Supreme Court dismissed the appeal on the basis that the government's plans for HS2 had no influence over how or what Parliament would ultimately vote for and therefore did not trigger the obligation to conduct an SEA.