Sentences with phrase «majority government under»

Labour later served in the wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after which it formed a majority government under Clement Attlee until 1951.

The 125 CEOs who participated in the survey were asked to compare a hypothetical majority government under Conservative leader Stephen Harper to one led by Liberal Stéphane Dion.

Not exact matches

The ongoing dispute between so - called Remainers and Brexiteers about this relationship took another turn last week when a majority of the U.K.'s House of Lords — the upper house of parliament — voted that the U.K. should stay in a customs union with the EU, something the government under Prime Minister Theresa May has said would not happen.

It comes with the Government under pressure after losing its House of Commons majority in the general election as Jeremy Corbyn's anti-austerity Labour outperformed expectations.

But both the committee and the government are under pressure to resolve the issue sooner with a free vote in the legislature which, given the governing Liberals» slim majority, would likely doom the tax.

No group managed to secure a majority in the Italian parliament, heralding weeks of political uncertainty and raising the prospect of a government between sworn enemies - the center - right led by former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi and the center - left under Pier Luigi Bersani.

Particularly controversial are the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant in the UK (currently under construction and controversial because of security concerns) and the Toulouse airport in France (a Chinese consortium purchased a majority stake but was relegated to a minority stake after French government intervention).

The Progressive Conservatives under Bernard Lord narrowly maintained a majority government.

It's true that under a PR system, single party majority governments would probably be few and far between.

However by contract, pre-slaughter stunning is not a requirement under the Australian government's live export regulation scheme (ESCAS), which means that the vast majority of exported Australian animals are still having their throats cut while fully conscious in importing countries.

An under - fire Miliband lacking the overall majority any prime minister needs would be at the mercy of journalists eagerly exposing the rifts of minority or coalition government.

The background to Mrs May's decision to call a snap election is the government's small majority of 17 and the abiding weakness of the Labour Party under Mr. Corbyn.

Adam Wagner (One Crown Row Ltd and founder of RightsInfo.org) gave a very timely seminar on Tuesday May 12 for the Oxford Human Rights Hub and the Oxford Martin School Human Rights for Future Generations Programme on the future of human rights in the UK under the new the Conservative majority government.

Beginning with the Labour governments of Tony Blair, which introduced 374 new peers into the house in order to balance the Conservative majority that had developed under the previous Conservative governments, the size of the house has grown substantially.

Skelos, meanwhile, was noting that there were no government shutdowns for all the years that the Senate was under Republican control (Democrats have had a majority since 2008).

Appealing to majority when Government claim to own ground which is not under up - bringing of any kind is a logical fallacy.

As the Chancellor George Osborne announces his first budget under a majority Conservative government, the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) provides its reaction to today's Budget.

Government's decision to spend a whopping GHC 3.6 million on re-branding 116 buses has angered many Ghanaians, with the majority questioning how that outrageous expenditure could be approved under the watch of the President.

Sturgeon requires the continuing support of unionist voters, happy to back the SNP in government if not to endorse their view on the future of the UK, if she is to repeat her party's trick of winning an overall majority in a parliament elected under a system that's part first - past - the - post and part proportional representation.

Now, under the ACA, the federal government pays the majority of their health care costs.

«We formed the Senate majority coalition because we believe that it is the best way to continue to build on the progress we've made over the last two years in ending government dysfunction, bringing spending under control, enacting a property tax cap and helping businesses create new jobs.

Work on that can begin now but it is an issue to deal with in the next parliament, under a majority Conservative government.

The No campaign makes inflated claims about costs and it says it will lead to more coalitions, when the evidence is that every election since 1945 that has resulted in a majority government would have done so under AV.

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.

The future constitution and makeup of the UK and its position in the EU are huge political unknowns; they are about to be addressed under a government with a dangerously slim majority in parliament — and only one seat in Scotland.

Under the government's new system the vast majority of the two - and - a-half million disabled people currently on incapacity benefit will be reassessed and found officially «fit for work» with barely a nod to the social, financial and practical barriers they face in finding and keeping a job in the real world.

«Majority of those who ran the Federal Government between 1999 and 2003 under the PDP are in the APC governmGovernment between 1999 and 2003 under the PDP are in the APC governmentgovernment today.

While describing the persistent claim by the Federal Government that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) destroyed Nigeria for 16 years as hypocritical, Governor Fayose said Nigerians must begin to ask which party majority of those presently ruling the country under the APC government were between 1999Government that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) destroyed Nigeria for 16 years as hypocritical, Governor Fayose said Nigerians must begin to ask which party majority of those presently ruling the country under the APC government were between 1999government were between 1999 and 2014.

The vast majority of the local governments that have proposed budgets did so under the 2 percent limit, but only a fraction of the taxing districts have proposed budgets.

On 23rdMay, Mark Harper MP, Parliamentary Under - Secretary of State at the Cabinet Office, revealed that of all the letters received by the Government on Lords Reform, the majority had concerned the bishops.

Under a majority government a change of minister might also herald a significant change in approach.

Heading into the 2017 election, Virginia had a Democratic governor and Republican majorities in both houses of the state Legislature, meaning the state was under divided government.

Under such a government, legislation can only be passed with the support of enough other members of the legislature to provide a majority, encouraging multi-partisanship.

A Conservative spokesman said 2.1 million apprenticeships had been created since the coalition came to power, and the majority of people had been under 25, with an average of 87,000 more young people a year taking this route into work than under the last Labour government.

«Aside the fact that the majority of our workers have salary arrears of between three to twenty - two months, the state government under Yahaya Bello has further endangered the lives of the people through the bogus money it has published against people's name as salaries and wages paid to them.

Government's decision to spend some GHc3.6 million on re-branding the buses angered many Ghanaians, with the majority questioning how that outrageous expenditure could be approved under the watch of the President.

She is set to be elected with an increased Tory majority if opinion polls are correct, giving her more of a chance than David Cameron of repealing the ban brought in under Tony Blair's Labour government.

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

When Labour is in Government, under party rules, an election would only happen «if requested by a majority of party conference on a card vote».

Recall the heady days of 2005 - 06, when the Democrats, who hadn't elected a majority in the county legislature in almost 30 years under the Republican - controlled multi-member at - large system in effect since 1967, were touting single - member elections as the end - all and be-all to curing the ills (read, jail debacle) of county government.

Policies now coming under question include «deregulation; the dominance of finance over industry; allowing large private sector vested interests to flourish; government getting out of the way in the economy; the promise that the majority would always do well from an in - it - for - yourself, laissez faire, deregulated economy just isn't working for most working people».

And a Labour amendment calling for a scrutiny committee to consider secondary legislation passed under the bill was defeated by 311 votes to 292 - a government majority of 19.

The scale of this challenge is not yet at U.S levels, but given that Britain under 18 is considerably more diverse than the current electorate, it will become increasingly unlikely at each election there will be a future Conservative majority government without making considerable progress among ethnic minority voters.

Securing 184 of the 338 seats in the House of Commons, «[t] he center - left Liberal Party under Justin Trudeau won an unexpected majority government,» he wrote.

E.V.: Such people can qualify as a micro-entity and enjoy a 75 % reduction on some patent - related government fees if they can certify: (1) that their employer, from whom the majority of his / her income is obtained, is an institution of higher education as defined in the Higher Education Act of 1965; or (2) the applicant has assigned, granted, or conveyed, or is under an obligation to assign, grant, or convey, an ownership interest in the application to such an institution of higher education.

«The Tories have already set out plans to decimate budgets for schools, nurseries and colleges — now they are admitting capital budgets would be under attack under a majority Conservative government as well.

Under No Child Left Behind, states spent more than $ 600 million annually on standardized tests, with the vast majority of the money going to the private sector, according to a 2009 Government Accountability Office report.

Morgan, who served as education secretary under both the coalition government and the majority Conservative government elected in 2015 until she was sacked by May last July, questioned the government's rhetoric around «meritocracy», a term the prime minister used during speeches about the selection plans.

But former education secretary Nicky Morgan said the government had raised the bar to a more «rigorous system» and said she «knew» it was «asking more», adding: «This is the first year we have assessed pupils under the new more rigorous system and it is no surprise that this year's results look different to previous years, but despite that the majority of pupils have achieved above and beyond the new expected standard.»

Contrarily, since the majority of borrowers in repayment have never claimed the student loan interest deduction to begin with, maybe borrowers as a whole group would be better off letting the government handle all of the saved money under one program to lower the cost of education for a wider net of student debtors.