Sentences with phrase «into coalition government»

Ed Miliband: «Labour will not go into coalition government with the SNP.

This was the comforting assurance given to Labour leaders, by prime minister Asquith as they trooped into the coalition government in May 1915.

Waiting lists in the NHS are already increasing just one year into coalition government, Iain Duncan Smith has admitted.

Even worse, we entered into a coalition government.

If we do go into coalition government again, whether or not the electoral system changes, we would need to try doing it differently, in three ways: first, we should adopt a transactional approach from day one in an effort to communicate that we are in fact fighting for our values; second, we should be ruthless about protecting the interests of our core supporters, including students and public sector workers; and third, we really, really need to be luckier — whatever one's analysis about the Liberal Democrats in government, the rise of Scottish nationalism and the fearful response to it south of the border is something the party neither caused nor could do very much about.

The aim will be to limit losses and avoid being forced into a coalition government.

The view that the Liberal Democrats will be «wiped out» is a result of declining popularity for the Liberal Democrat and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg since entering into coalition government with the Conservatives.

He helped force them into this coalition government and now he complains?

Not exact matches

Populist parties already made it into government in the early 2000s and coalition - forming has become more complicated due to the rise of populist parties on both the right and the left wing of the political spectrum,» Brzeski told CNBC.

Grassroots members of Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) decisively backed the party's decision to enter into another «grand coalition» government with Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU), thus bringing to an end months of uncertainty following September's general election.

Saudi Arabia and a coalition of mostly Gulf Arab states intervened in Yemen's civil war in 2015 to try and push back the Houthis after the movement drove the internationally recognized government into Saudi exile.

Over the past couple of years, Emirates» expansion into the US market has been met with pushback from a coalition lead by American, Delta, and United Airlines (the US3) that claim Emirates» growth has been fueled billions of dollars in government subsidies.

The Canadian Global Cities Council, a coalition of Canada's eight largest urban regional chambers of commerce, is calling for airport policy reform to align Canada with global best practices, and for our international airports to be factored into transit infrastructure planning by all levels of government.

The Coalition Government is getting on with the job of delivering our water infrastructure needs, today annowncing $ 1 million to fast - track a feasibility study into improving water quality and supply to support the expansion of the Myalup and Collie River irrigation districts.

Their rise is cutting deeply into support for Greece's two mainstream parties — the conservative New Democracy party and the center - left Socialists, known as Pasok — that share power in a fractious coalition government.

Following last Friday night's coordinated missile attack by a coalition of U.S., U.K. and French forces against Syrian chemical weapons facilities, there was a high level of consternation about whether the barrage of targeted airstrikes would escalate into a dangerous and wide - ranging military engagement between the Assad - led Syrian government backers (Russia, Iran, Hezbollah) and NATO forces.

The article claims the Coalition is planning a «Henry reviewstyle inquiry into competition laws, including an investigation into the market dominance of supermarket chains, within the first 100 days of an Abbott government».

But whilst it was incorporated into the Welfare Reform Act, the incoming coalition Government decided not to enact this aspect of the new legislation.

Lib Dems in government: What would have happened if we hadn't gone into coalition?

And don't members of the US - led coalition, who cite the «collective self - defense» of Iraq (the Iraqi government has formally made this request), have the right to prevent further ISIS attacks from Syrian territory into Iraqi areas?

You're in the trenches and what the staff officers are doing doesn't really make much difference...» — in Do No Harm he writes that governments turn the life of clinicians into a game of musical chairs, with the coalition's controversial NHS reforms the equivalent of changing the entire orchestra.

Plaid leader Ieuan Wyn Jones then attempted to lead a coalition government, entering into talks with the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives.

«We've no intention of going into coalition of propping up a government.

Legal challenges to the government's consultation, concerns over the hybrid nature of the legislation (this means it takes much longer to work its way through parliament) and the coalition's decision to split the legislation into two parts are worrying interested spectators — like Labour's Eagle.

«Not immediately» turned into «not for a hundred years», but the coalition government aims to get the job done in five.

Which is why Lynton Crosby, who is a tobacco lobbyist, got into the headlines when the coalition government decided to drop its plans for plain packaging of cigarettes.

Rough sleeping in England rises by more than a third since the coalition government came into power, despite David Cameron's promises to tackle the issue.

Unite, Britain's biggest union, says that the government's plan to cap compensation for unfair dismissal is part of a joined - up attack on workers» rights which is turning ordinary working people into scapegoats for the coalition's economic mismanagement.

He was taking the helm of a conference that held a narrow majority in the Senate and was expected to lose seats in the 2016 election — forcing him to either fall into the minority or form a coalition government with the Independent Democratic Conference.

If, as looks likely, the Conservatives end up with the largest number of seats, they get to go first in trying to form a government by going into coalition with other parties.

One possible development in this scenario is that several months into a Con - Lib government (coalition or otherwise) the polls suggest both Labour and the Liberal Democrats would win more seats if there were another general election.

Since the Coalition government came to power, 600,000 more children have been pushed into absolute poverty, Alan Milburn warned.

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.

Were they not the main part of the coalition government that set the constitutional process into action?

And a change of government — especially if it was a coalition between Labour and the Liberal Democrats — could see even more reforms brought into play, with issues like voting and House of Lords reform suddenly thrown into the mix.

They're in a somewhat better position, in that the SNP won't necessarily oppose them out of hand, but the fact they won't bring the nationalists into a formal coalition that an Ed Miliband government is a minority administration by default.

And if the Greek people had voted an anti-austerity coalition into government in June 2012 (to which they were close to doing), would such an administration have acted in the «economic interest» of Greece?

It took the Lib Dems» involvement in a Coalition government to bring these policies into law.

The Labour - Plaid Cymru coalition government has been formalised, with three Plaid Cymru AMs invited into the Welsh Cabinet.

The Conservatives» remarkable success in converting coalition into majority government is down to two factors: this was the first governing party to increase its vote share after a full term in office for more than a century and it succeeded in concentrating that vote increase in the seats where it counted.

That ambition now depends on translating Labour's defining beliefs in fairness and the necessary role of government into a popular argument which could begin to rebuild Labour's coalition.

In June 2010 he was appointed by David Cameron's coalition government to head an independent review into poverty, [14] which proposed adopting a new measure centred around life - chance indicators and increasing funding for early years education.

To a certain extent, joining the Conservatives in a coalition government transformed the Liberal Democrats into an establishment party.

The party has to confront the truth that its only route into government for the forseeable future is in coalition with either of the two main parties.

«The clause is the turn of the screw by the coalition into our democratic system of government, which, at its essence, is about the individuality and votes of conscience of MPs, irrespective of the Whips and the patronage system.

«An unusual and well - heeled coalition, trying to tap public anger over the flood of money into politics, is pushing to enact a public financing system for elections in New York State,» reported the New York Times in a front - page article on the New York Leadership for Accountable Government (NY LEAD) coalition.

«I would like to congratulate the coalition government for bringing a whiff of privatisation into the beleaguered National Health Service,» he wrote.

No recovery if we hadn't decided to enter into coalition in order to provide the country with strong government.

The establishment of police and crime commissioners, which concentrates the power of the old police authorities into a single person, is a coalition government proposal.