Sentences with phrase «likelihood of a hung parliament»

Meanwhile the likelihood of a hung parliament after 7 May and the inter-party deals that will be required to form a coalition, plus the existence of unresolved and urgent constitutional questions which require resolution provides the necessary political backdrop for the establishment of a constitutional convention.

Changes to constituency boundaries mean there is an increased likelihood of a hung parliament after the next election.

After another strong performance by the Lib Dem leader in the second televised debate, there is a real likelihood of a hung parliament.

As the opinion polls tighten and suggest a growing likelihood of a hung parliament, Gaby Hinsliff writes for Channel 4 News about how smaller parties are spotting a golden opportunity.

Four months out from the general election, the signs are pointing to the likelihood of another hung parliament, with no party returning with an overall majority in the House of Commons.

For the AV system would hugely raise the number of Liberal Democrat MPs, and therefore vastly increase the likelihood of a hung parliament.

Not exact matches

If the Liberal Democrats can ensure that their party structures operate so as to allow a clear voice to come through, they have every chance of putting forward a distinctive manifesto at the next election - one that will, in all likelihood, put it closer to a reformed Labour Party, should the Alternative Vote deliver another hung parliament.

Though the polls still point to the likelihood of either a Labour victory or another hung Parliament, it should not be assumed that Miliband would immediately resign were his party to lose.

The Lib Dem election campaign focused on the likelihood of there being a hung parliament and sold the party as the best option as a coalition partner for either Labour or the Conservatives, promising to stop each party lurching off to the left or the right.

Newsnight presenter Jeremy Paxman interviews Liberal Democrat Nick Clegg on his party's policies, the likelihood that he will be chosen as Britain's next prime minister and which party he would back in the event of hung parliament.

But the interest in the possibility is at least as much a reflection of the political class's frustration with the predictability of the David Cameron versus Gordon Brown contest as of any convincing likelihood that the next parliament will be hung.

If so, the likelihood must be not just a hung parliament, but a reconstruction of the political system.

«For as long as the two parties are entrenched in their strongholds but incapable of reaching very far beyond them, it increases the likelihood of there being more hung parliaments.