Sentences with phrase «junior party»

Lib Dem strategists will be hoping today's abstention will help distinguish the coalition's junior party from the Tories.

I've ducked out of the Commons debate, conveniently after the main speeches, to get the view of the coalition's junior party on this fine mess.

The coalition's junior party says # 400 million of funding for the Department for Education's «basic need budget», which provides cash helping areas where there is severe competition for limited school places, has been diverted.

Many Tory party activists refused to believe the Lib Dems would go ahead with the threat during last autumn's party conference season, but are now being forced to confront the coalition's junior party intransigence on the issue.

That's why a vote is unlikely: if the coalition's junior party doesn't approve the Tory plans, there wouldn't be a division in government time.

In Newark itself, many more junior party employees — some of them campaign managers from other 40/40 seats — worked from temporary offices during the day and, at night, stayed in a Premier Inn.

A coalition junior party less afraid to challenge the Conservatives, to assert itself on the issues that matter and demonstrate to voters that it is making a difference, is more desirable.

This weekend has seen attention focus on the coalition government's junior party after 52,000 students voiced their anger with the Lib Dems» decision to abandon their pre-election pledge to oppose increases in tuition fees.

The deepening of Westminster's sexual harassment scandal has now seen 36 serving Tory MPs named on a «dossier of shame» being circulated by junior party aides.

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He does so because he knows all too well the popular tendency to make Yahweh the junior party to the covenant, dependent for his glory and perhaps even his very being upon Israel.

The coalition's junior party is now calling for the media plurality rules laid down by the last government to be dropped in favour of stricter ones.

Many in the coalition's junior party are likely to be deeply frustrated by the setback, however.

The junior party's concerns could return to become a major coalition headache again as the full extent of universities» ambitions becomes clear.

It was a PR victory for the coalition's junior party, but humiliating for Truss personally.

A junior party official, Gunter Guillaume (Aidan McArdle), is reporting everything he sees to his East German handler Arno.

Of course, applying these lessons does not guarantee influence for the junior party in a coalition government; many other factors are at play once votes have been cast.

The coalition's junior party has not secured its «mansion tax» on homes worth over # 2 million, but stamp duty on properties above this value is to jump upwards to seven per cent.

How important is Lords reform to the coalition's junior party?

And we may wish to take note of the performance of Plaid Cymru who were, like us, the junior party in a coalition.

There just aren't enough Lib Dem MPs to defeat boundary changes, so if the coalition's junior party were to interfere with this Lib Dem ministers would have to act.

As leader of the junior party of the coalition there is not much he can do, apart from accepting the electoral costs of sharing power with the Conservative Party.

Chilled to the bone by the prospect of electoral annihilation at local level in 2011, the future isn't looking bright for the coalition's junior party.

The deputy prime minister will tell his parliamentary party that all the concessions demanded by the coalition's junior party have been accepted by the government.

Today, Plaid Cymru is the junior party in a Welsh Labour party coalition with 15 of the 60 seats in the Welsh Assembly.

Pack said it was «sensible» of Clegg to address the political flak the coalition's junior party were facing for having broken their higher education promises.

Labour, perhaps sensing that the Liberal Democrats may benefit from Clegg's frank apology, has laid into the coalition's junior party.

The coalition's junior party has been arguing that proportional representation is how the elected assemblies of the devolved institutions are chosen; the Tories respond by saying they refuse to accept any reduction in their influence in the Commons.

Clegg and the rest of the coalition's junior party were still under - resourced in government, so the end of 2011 saw the appointment of more special advisers for Lib Dem ministers and a drastically reinforced office for Clegg himself.

The apology is being viewed as a major strategic shift in approach from the coalition's junior party, as it seeks damage limitation by conceding it made a major error of judgement while in opposition.

But with two parties in power the junior party must be careful that its temperamental conference does not deviate from the party line.

It would benefit the coalition's junior party, as it always receives fewer MPs per seats than either Labour or the Conservatives.

The former Foreign Office minister, whose book Race Plan is published this week, suggested this morning that Clegg had been forced to «meet his detractors halfway» and that this had undermined the coalition's junior party.

A rare policy victory for the coalition's junior party is expected to be unveiled this week, according to a report.

This is a variant of what was described to me once when I was a junior party press officer (twenty years ago, in less enlightened times) as the «wife beater strategy».

There's not a lot in it for the junior party - and once the agreed parts of their manifesto have been tabled, there's little incentive for them to continue the arrangement.

Yet again, the junior party finds itself unhappily forced to compromise.

The key lesson from Germany was that if the leader of the junior party seems to be more in tune with the senior party's politics then his / her own, the road to electoral oblivion beckons.

While accepting the need to make some compromises with Nick Clegg's party they feel Cameron has given away too much to the coalition's junior party — and want the prime minister to be more assertive as the next general election approaches.

That is the dilemma faced by the coalition's junior party: their actions now will determine the pace at which this government's unity unravels ahead of the 2015 general election.

But the junior party were on their best behaviour today, nodding furiously when Lansley said the Lords was being used to improve the bill.

So when our party leaders speak about the possibility of entering a coalition and their advisers» brief warmly about doing business with Vince Cable, I'm sure the other side have thick skins, but let's not get carried away and believe that it's up to us who the junior party has as leader.

A coalition government is a more formal arrangement than a confidence - and - supply agreement, in that members from junior parties (i.e. parties other than the largest) gain positions in the cabinet, ministerial roles and may be expected to hold the government whip on passing legislation.

The coalition's junior party has been undermined by Nick Clegg's suggestion that a referendum could be considered after the first tranche of elections takes place in 2015.

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Nor did it do much for the campaign of the junior party in the coalition.