Sentences with phrase «majority government returned»

The 2015 General Election saw a Conservative majority government returned (al biet on a minority of the vote) for the first time since 1992.

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The Israeli government has ruled out any right of return, fearing the country would lose its Jewish majority.

Early returns suggest a significant majority of voters in the State of Washington have approved an initiative to privatize the state's remaining government liquor stores.

Friday's opposition vote to defeat the Conservative government for «contempt of Parliament» was an exercise in self - delusion, testosterone and faulty logic that will surely result in Stephen Harper returning after the May 2 election as prime minister — and likely with a majority.

At that time I wrote: «Friday's opposition vote to defeat the Conservative government for «contempt of Parliament» was an exercise in self - delusion, testosterone and faulty logic that will surely result in Stephen Harper returning after the May 2 election as prime minister — and likely with a majority.

Three months later, after the Meighen government was defeated in the House and another general election took place, King and the Liberals were returned with a majority.

On November 22, 2004, Albertans elected the Alberta Progressive Conservative Party to a majority government, returning Ralph Klein as the province's premier.

«As he's said, the only way to get an referendum on the EU is to return a majority conservative government.

The history of this is well - known and we would not want to return to a situation where an elected government, commanding a Commons majority, can be blocked by unelected peers from raising the money it needs when it has made a clear political choice to raise those funds.

The nub of the question is this: Does Labour think of political success in terms of the return of another majority Labour government?

Much of the discussion of the party's future still seems to assume that the goal is the return of a majority Labour government, a way of thinking that is really quite at odds with the reforms, e.g., proportional representation, which are necessary for genuine and fundamental democratic renewal.

Barring a political deus ex machina, the only question that now remains is will the Tories manage to secure a majority, or will they be returned to government as part of a coalition or a minority administration.

Labour leader Rhodri Morgan will spend the bank holiday weekend considering a return to coalition government, after his party lost its majority in the Welsh assembly.

Only 32 MPs need to vote against the government to wipe out its majority of 63, but canvassing carried out by the leftwing organisation Compass indicates that more than 100 Labour MPs will send a warning to ministers when they sign an early day motion opposing the move to part - privatise the Post Office when parliament returns on 12 January.

«As Republican leader it was my job to return Republicans to the Majority every two years to assure there was balance in a government dominated by Democrats,» Bruno said in a statement.

Cameron's return in a majority government should usher in a new golden era for the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), which drafted much of Margaret Thatcher «s and John Major's agendas.

The Labour Party returned to government with a 4 - seat majority under Wilson in the 1964 general election but increased its majority to 96 in the 1966 general election.

May I suggest to you that you do not help to sustain the Blair government in office (its majority is far too large, it does not need you and will give you little or nothing in return).

«He heard our request loud and clear and recognized the importance of including Hispanic leaders in prominent decision - making levels of government — especially in these times of serious budget cutting, These appointments may prove to be even more important when the Senate Democrats return to the majority.»

A report released Monday by the good - government group Citizens Union argued the current system for redistricting, dominated by the Democratic majority in the Assembly and Republicans who control the Senate, has led to less - competitive elections, reduced voter turnout and, over the past four election cycles, a 96 percent re-election rate for incumbents — who are returned to office by an average margin of victory of 61 percentage points.

The name of the group derives from the fact that 301 is the number of Tory MPs that will need to be returned to Parliament in 2015 to create a majority government (the boundary review means there will be 600 seats at the next election).

Shinwell did not resume ministerial office when Labour returned to power in October 1964, but instead the new Prime Minister Harold Wilson appointed him Chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party, and during the 1964 - 6 Parliament he worked hard to drum up backbench support for the government, which had a very narrow majority.

The Labour Government returned to this issue in 2001 and whilst the then leader of the House, Robin Cook, confirmed that this was a House of Commons matter, through the mechanism of a motion in Parliament, certain allowances were voted through by the Labour majority.

But a return of a majority Labour government under Gordon Brown would not provide a strong enough guarantee of reform.

The argument would stand next year in that a majority Labour government could almost certainly not be returned, and Labour as the largest minority party probably not, without most Scottish MPs being Labour.

So what will I do when I finally vote in the referendum on May 5th where on the one hand we have the incumbent First Past the Post System which we know at a national level to be unrepresentative and unfair as it returns governments with overwhelming majorities in the House of Commons even though they only have forty per cent of the vote or less, or AV which is not a representative system but more complicated with it's opaque results making it more open to election fraud or the suspicion of.

The former PM made clear his disdain for the «hard left» platform the party has adopted as he warned it can only form a majority government by returning to the centre ground.

Poll after poll in the run up to election night predicted no single party would win an overall majority, only for the exit poll on the night to rightly predict that the Conservatives would return to power ending five years of coalition government with the Lib Dems.

In global - government core exposure, the majority of returns were derived from core currency (FX).

As the abortion issue heats up in Ottawa and the country returns to majority government, two upcoming retirements at the Supreme Court of Canada mean Prime Minister Stephen Harper will have the chance to nominate two new judges to the country's top bench.

Justice Stevens garnered a six - justice majority for a ruling that returned the Takings Clause to its intended role mainly in securing compensation for landowners when the government exercises its power of eminent domain.

If, however, Theresa May is returned with a similar majority to the current majority it would be a blow to the confidence of the government and perhaps the programme for reform might be set back.

Returning to abusive content, Twitter's report specifies that the majority of the tweets and accounts reported to it by governments which it did remove violated its rules in the following areas: impersonation (66 %), harassment (16 %), and hateful conduct (12 %).