Sentences with phrase «junior coalition partner»

The role of Scotland's perpetual junior coalition partner seemed to beckon.

One is in 2012, when Wylie was 21 and working for the Liberal Democrats in the UK, then in government as junior coalition partners.

Also a former PM, Pawlak has not engaged in any symbolic political acts, as many junior coalition partners often do, even though his party represents a sizable, partisan agrarian electorate.

Martin Schulz, the head of Merkel's current junior coalition partner, the Social Democrats (SPD), also laid into the auto industry on the weekend, slamming «irresponsible managers» that have not invested in electric cars as they should.

«Number 10 need to listen to their Conservative backbenchers and the Conservative Party grass roots more often, and to their minority and junior Coalition partners less often,» he said.

The first phase of exit negotiations should have concluded in October, but only ended last week after a last - minute push to bring May's junior coalition partner — Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)-- on board with the deal.

Schulz opposes becoming the junior coalition partner because this has previously impacted the party in a negative way, every time it joined forces with Merkel.

Merkel's junior coalition partner, the Social Democratic Party (SPD), indicated it would go into opposition after also receiving its worst result since the 1940s, with about a fifth of the vote.

If people on the centre left leave the Liberal Democrats in droves (something which, a small trickle notwithstanding, does not appear to be happening), then the junior coalition partner will be weakened and will struggle to hold its own in the inevitable battles for the heart and soul of the coalition government over the next few years.

The junior coalition partners were predicted to lose around 50 seats but ended up ceding more than seven times that number.

After the 2012 general election the VVD entered into a ruling coalition with the Labour Party as their junior coalition partner.

In the end, 75 % of Tory gains were taken from their junior coalition partners.

The determination of the party to amend the health bill can only help Nick Clegg's negotiating position and demonstrate in times of adversity for a junior coalition partner the value of its democratic processes and its progressive outlook.

It was the price they demanded, this time last year, for allowing their junior coalition partners, the Liberal Democrats, a referendum on the alternative vote.

Nothing will come of this fairytale demonisation of the junior coalition partner.

Despite Cameron's appeal for unity, there remains pressure from the Tory backbenches for the PM to take a tougher line on his junior coalition partners.

Left - wing voters are going to punish the junior coalition partner in Lib Dem - Labour marginals, probably by more than the 12 % predicted by the Ashcroft polling.

Lib Dem ministers still don't seem too worried about their position in the polls, commonly dismissing it as just what happens to a junior coalition partner until they find their voice, but presumably it will become a cause of concern for some point (not just for the Lib Dems, but presumably also for Conservatives who fear it placing pressure upon the coalition.

After eight months of the junior Coalition partners seeming to bear the brunt of the public's unhappiness, the Conservatives finally seem to be suffering.

James Forsyth argues in his column that the rightwards shift in the junior coalition partners should mean that the Conservatives are the LibDems» natural future allies, dragging the whole of British politics to the Right.

Others are concerned about the effect a strong carbon market could have on their economies at a time of financial upheaval, such as Germany's junior coalition partners, the Free Democratic Party.

Nonetheless, home secretary Theresa May is annoyed at the Liberal Democrats, her Conservative Party's junior coalition partner, for blocking moves to reintroduce a repeatedly floated, and repeatedly shot - down, «Snooper's Charter» — more properly known as the Communications Data Bill.