Sentences with phrase «minister of a majority government»

David Cameron, prime minister of a majority government, had to carefully time his parliamentary vote on airstrikes over Syria in order to win.

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.

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.

So they forced an election they couldn't possibly win by defeating the Conservatives on a confidence vote in Parliament — and gave Prime Minister Stephen Harper something he couldn't get without their invaluable help — a majority government with no chance of being defeated for four years.

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.

In America's Forbes Magazine this week, Alejandro Chafuen praised the leadership of the conservative policy think - tanks that helped set the stage for the election of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative majority government in 2011 and the success of conservative politicians across the country.

Whichever party has a majority of those 650 MPs will form a government, and the leader of that party will be Prime Minister.

My attention has been drawn to a video which captures the Member of Parliament for Dome / Kwabenya, Deputy Majority Leader and Minister of State at the Presidency in charge of Public Procurement, the Hon. Sarah Adwoa Safo claiming in the said video that the Community Senior High School constructed and commissioned in her constituency during the tenure of President John Dramani Mahama was as a result of her personal intervention with the World Bank, that the Senior High School was not from the then NDC Government and that with the exception of the Dome / Kwabenya Senior High School project, all the other schools constructed during the previous NDC administration were executed in NDC strongholds.

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.

«I welcome the prime minister's decision to give the British people the chance to vote for a government that will put the interests of the majority first.

The Labour leader said: «I welcome the prime minister's decision to give the British people the chance to vote for a government that will put the interests of the majority first.»

«She's been in government, she's in tune with the majority of people in this country... I think she would be an extremely good prime minister.»

Moreover, «[i] f the election results in an overall majority for a different party, the incumbent Prime Minister and government will immediately resign and the Sovereign will invite the leader of the party that has won the election to form a government» (§ 2.11).

Since Ed Miliband would probably have to step down as Prime Minister at the moment of independence (in my scenario of no Labour majority in rump UK), the Scottish government would find itself negotiating with someone whose job depended on the negotiations» failing for as long as possible.

Overnight, at her own hand, May had gone from the prime minister of a majority Tory party to the leader of a minority government.

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.

In much the same way as government ministers motivated the Asylum and Immigration Act and defended their treatment of refugees in Rochester Prison, the manifesto states that «the vast majority of so - called «refugees» pouring into Britain every year are not real refugees at all but simply people seeking to better their living standards».

Statement from prime minister Gordon Brown On 2 February, I announced that I had asked the Cabinet Secretary to prepare a Cabinet Manual, bringing together the existing conventions that determine the formation of governments including where no party has an overall majority.

Where a Prime Minister chooses to resign from his or her individual position at a time when his or her administration has an overall majority in the House of Commons, it is for the party or parties in government to identify who can be chosen as the successor (p. 15).

The Prime Minister's party will normally have a majority in the House of Representatives and party discipline is exceptionally strong in Australian politics, so passage of the government's legislation through the House of Representatives is mostly a formality.

The party leadership as well as the majority of government ministers support the Remain campaign.

Viewers picked holes pretty quickly in Clegg's «Lib Dems for coalition» pitch to conference, pointing out that his condemnation of single - party rule therefore undermines any argument that Lib Dem majority (or minority) government rule would be preferable, thus making his much - applauded line «In an ideal world, I wouldn't have to work with either of them because I'd be Prime Minister on my own thank you very much — and I'd like to think I'd do a better job too» fall rather flat.

«I can deliver being the majority part of the coalition government and I will have the ear of the prime minister and no other candidate can say that.

Although ministers offered a series of minor concessions intended to satisfy the many Labour MPs who signed an amendment attacking government policy, MPs voted by a majority of 21 to back a Liberal Democrat demand for «an equal right of residence for all Gurkhas».

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

The climbdown illustrates again how vulnerable ministers are over the bill, given the number of potential Tory rebels often exceeds the government's tiny DUP - aided majority.

Despite most opinion polls predicting that the Conservatives and Labour were neck and neck, the Conservatives secured a surprise victory after having won a clear lead over their rivals and incumbent Prime Minister David Cameron was able to form a majority single - party government with a working majority of 12 (in practice increased to 15 due to Sinn Féin's 4 MPs» abstention).

That situation lasted until the prime minister called another election in October that year, following which the Labour Government obtained a tiny majority of three.

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 prime minister has said she will now form a majority government with the Democratic Unionists of Northern Ireland.

With the government deprived of a majority to force its will, it will either need to grind out and sap the energy of the rebels with months of late - night sittings to win — testing loyalist resolve to breaking point — or ministers will have to cut a deal with Labour.

A large majority of public sector witnesses (see Figure Two) were from central government departments, agencies and commissions (including ministers), with a fifth from other public organisations.

Majority leader, Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu on his part said the argument by the minority defeats same action undertaken by former President Mahama's government in respect of the appointment of a Deputy Local Government Minister, government in respect of the appointment of a Deputy Local Government Minister, Government Minister, Oti Bless.

Majority Leader and Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Osei Kyei - Mensah - Bonsu, who is in charge of government business in the House, in a recent interview on TV3 expressed skepticism government will be able to fulfill all its promises within four years.

[21][clarification needed] He subsequently became MP for Plymouth Sutton at the February 1974 general election with a majority of 8,104, [22] when Harold Wilson took over from Edward Heath as prime minister of a minority Labour government.

Whilst David Cameron may become Prime Minister next year with an overall Conservative majority in the Commons, any administration he forms will start its life as a minority government in the House of Lords.

The Speaker accordingly suspended sitting and asked the majority side of the House, who are in charge of government business, to call the ministers to come to Parliament.

It can not be beyond the wit of man for the Conservative Party and Ukip to work together in some way that ensure that there a right of centre majority government after the next general election, with David Cameron as Prime Minister

He said: «I welcome the Prime Minister's decision to give the British people the chance to vote for a government that will put the interests of the majority first.

Relations between the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Turkey's academic establishment have been rocky since Erdoğan's party won a large majority in parliament a decade ago.

There are two holes in this argument, a two school system has existed for many decades; LA and private (the majority of government ministers seem to have done ok having been schooled through the latter) plus academies and LA schools have and can co-exist quite easily.

Even if we assume that the Minister's comments reflect the intention of the government, and of a majority of the legislators, we still have no idea whether the Legislature also wanted to protect occupiers outside the narrow confines of recreational trails, and particularly those occupiers who enter into commercial agreements.

Most if not all votes were whipped, which meant that, in a majority government, the position of the Prime Minister and his inner Cabinet invariably became the law of the...

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.

Everything Conservative government Cabinet ministers and representatives said about their Bill C - 16 in the House of Commons and Senate made it clear that the legal effect of the Bill (which became law in May 2007) is to require the government (whether minority or majority) to lose a vote of confidence in the House of Commons before the Prime Minister can advise the Governor General to dissolve Parliament and call an election.

McKenna, backed by a majority government with an environmental sustainability mandate, is the first environment minister to stand a chance of effecting real change.

the fact that the government (in particular the prime minister and most — though not all — senior ministers) is drawn from the majority party in the Commons (ultimately, the Commons can of course break a government).

In the latter situation, existing well - established practice in Commonwealth constitutional Law and Conventions suggests that the Governor General, before acting to withdraw the mandate from an incumbent Prime Minister, is entitled to be satisfied, beyond reasonable doubt, of the political capacity of Opposition parties to be able to form, and then maintain for a sufficient time period, an alternative government that commands the support of a numerical majority of House members.

In the event that a government had a sizeable majority, the consent of the House of Commons would almost inevitably be forthcoming and the prime minister would have retained the ability to have a general election whenever he wished.