Sentences with phrase «into coalition agreements»

We got more of our policies into the coalition agreement than they did.

Was that because the Tories outfoxed their partners in slipping it into the Coalition Agreement?

The Lib Dems, whose decision to enter into a coalition agreement with the Conservatives was dependent on a commitment to restoring Britain's civil liberties, celebrated the decision.

«I am now acutely aware that I carry your hopes and aspirations into this coalition agreement,» he said.

The Lib Dems» opposition to nuclear power is one of three areas where an abstention has been built into the coalition agreement.

Fast forward to December 2012: Republicans failed to secure full control of the Senate, requiring them to enter into a coalition agreement with the Independent Democratic Conference.

He immediately mentions the pupil premium, though he wasn't in office when it was introduced: «I negotiated it into the coalition agreement and I insisted on it being in our 2010 manifesto.»

Given the libertarian coup d'etat that Mr Clegg carried out in ditching the official LibDem manifesto and writing whole swathes of the Orange Book into the Coalition Agreement which his own party had previously massively rejected, Nick Clegg can not be really very surprised that the rasberry he got in the local elections and AV vote is going to be reflected within Westminster machine as well.

Indeed, he went further by banging on about his beloved mansion tax, regretting that it hasn't made it into the Coalition Agreement.

Not exact matches

If it doesn't win the election, but enters into Coalition, any commitment to effect that change should be written into the consequent Coalition Agreement.

It seems unlikely that Labour would enter into any kind of formal agreement that allowed SNP MPs to become ministers or play a direct role in the management of government departments — indeed, Miliband has ruled out a coalition with the Scottish nationalists.

«The government goes into European negotiations with no policy on European defence; it is not mentioned in the coalition agreement; no policy on European energy - also not mentioned; and on justice and home affairs, all they can say is that they will review cases one by one; no principles, no plans,» he said.

That promise became part of the coalition agreement in 2010 and was enacted into law.

But the objective problem is not the coalition agreement, as many Tories are quite happy to rebel against measures that went into the agreement on the nod because they were in both parties» manifestos.

The Commission - fulfilling a promise contained within the Coalition Agreement to look into establishing a British Bill of Rights - never looked likely to work.

Going further, it seemed that the aims and ambitions of both partners, set out in the Coalition Agreement, were so similar that the two might as well, in future, merge into one.

To deal with situations in parliamentary systems where no clear majority to support a government exists, two or more parties may establish a formal coalition government, commanding a clear majority of the parliamentary members, or a party might enter into less formal alliances or agreements with other parties, or individual members, to allow the minority government to stay in office.

Theresa May is trying to persuade the 10 DUP MPs to enter into a formal coalition agreement with the Tories, as opposed to a less formal «confidence and supply» arrangement, ministers tell me.

The Coalition Agreement stated explicitly that «the state pension age will not start to rise to 66 sooner than 2016 for men and 2020 for women», yet just a few weeks after this Agreement the Government unilaterally announced that actually women's state pension age would start rising from 2016; suddenly their state pension has been denied to them for up to 2 extra years, making many feel (as they have said) like the Government has gone into their bank account and taken away thousands of pounds.

A key conclusion is that the formula proposed in the 2010 coalition agreement, of bringing the balance in the Lords into line with general election votes, is completely unsustainable.

Ultimately, this policy goes against the coalition agreement, against Conservative pre-election policy and is fundamentally an illiberal, intrusive scheme that will do little to improve national security and do everything to turn us into a nation of suspects.

Campaigners had become increasingly concerned that the pledge, which was in the coalition agreement, was being kicked into the long grass following months of silence over the issue.

Parent and community groups such as the Coalition for Educational Justice fought to get expert teachers into the schools, but the agreement came too late to recruit enough teachers for all the schools in the program's first year.