Sentences with phrase «minority labour government»

Kirsty Williams told the programme «there are going to be difficulties ahead» and that as a minority Labour government it would need to «continue to reach out to other progressive parties».

Tory candidates say members of the public are now spontaneously raising deep concerns about the prospect of Scottish nationalists deciding tax laws for England in the budget of a minority Labour government.

He said ignoring the vote might embolden a future minority Labour government to act against the will of the Commons.

Nicola Sturgeon, the SNP leader, said that her party would not support a minority Labour government whe agrees to abandon Britain's Trident nuclear defence programme.

In a campaign speech for the Conservatives he claimed a minority Labour government would be forced to accept to SNP demands «favouring Scotland at the expense of the rest of the UK».

The Liberal Party's decision not to enter a coalition with the Conservatives, and Baldwin's unwillingness to govern without a majority, led to Ramsay MacDonald's first minority Labour government which took office in January 1924.

In the short - lived minority Labour government of 1924 she served as parliamentary secretary in the Ministry of Labour.

Alex Salmond has suggested that a SNP deal with a minority Labour government is «probable» on a case - by - case basis.

If a minority Labour government was relying on Tory votes to get things through that the Nats didn't like, there is always a danger that the Tories could resort to the sort of tactics Labour themselves often used in such situations (such as constitutional reform).

From the Lib - Lab pact of 1977 to Ramsey MacDonald's 1924 minority Labour government, the United Kingdom is no stranger to hung parliaments.

[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.

Meanwhile, the Conservatives won at UK level by playing up the threat from an SNP - backed minority Labour government to stability, security and territorial integrity.

Continuing that theme, the 2015 manifesto's welfare pledges revolve around explaining how the SNP would exert its influence on this policy area if involved in supporting a minority Labour government.

Meanwhile his decision to repeatedly state that the party with the largest number of seats should form the next government is set to undermine the legitimacy of any minority Labour government should we see one next month.

Some have suggested the possibility of a minority Labour government, backed by the SNP and the Liberal Democrats.

Douglas - Home, then aged 71, stepped down at the second election of that year, called in October by the minority Labour government in the hope of winning a working majority.

Twenty - two per cent of members believe a Liberal - Labour coalition will win in 2015, while 20 % believe Labour will secure a majority in its own right and 11 % expect a minority Labour government.

Ed Miliband has denied that the SNP would be able to dictate the policy of a minority Labour government by saying it «ain't gonna happen».

Lord Elis - Thomas defended the drawn out process and eventual minority Labour government, telling AMs Wales should not attempt to ape the two - party system of Westminster.

As Britain entered 2016, David Cameron was supposed to be finished and Prime Minister Miliband was supposed to be head of a minority Labour government or some kind of left - wing coalition.

The big legitimacy problem for a minority Labour government could be the national question.

All rights reserved THE BRITISH electorate, to judge by the opinion polls, is about to vote into power either a minority Labour government or - just possibly - a Labour government with a tiny overall majority.

In the 20th century Harold Wilson led a minority Labour government for seven months in 1974.

A minority Labour government would also be feasible if the Liberal Democrats emerged as the party of the median MP, provided that the latter abandoned their current alliance with the Conservatives in favour of one with Labour.

It also means thinking, for the first time, about what it can hope to get from negotiations with a minority Labour government.

Heath did not resign until March 4, after confirming that a coalition with the Liberals was impossible, and Harold Wilson became the prime minister of a minority Labour government.

Under this assessment, Miliband becomes prime minister of a minority Labour government working some sort of arrangement with the SNP and others.

But at this point in the campaign, that only fuels arguments from the Conservatives about the risks involved in a minority Labour government supported by the SNP.

In the light of what is happening, the slant of the newspapers, and just by gauging the feel of current public opinion «on the streets» I can not see how Ed Miliband can now shrug off the dire warnings (and fears) of a minority Labour government in hock to the ScotNats, and become Prime Minister.

Britain was not heading for a minority Labour government but towards a Tory majority and we were all making the same mistake in believing the polls.

Almost inevitably, newspapers are suggesting that a minority Labour government that relies on the SNP votes would essentially be squatting in Downing Street — even if, constitutionally, that argument is highly questionable.

(This is quite distinct from the Brian Barder argument that we should cling to the conventions because they make possible a minority Labour government which, in my view, would entirely lack democratic legitimacy.)

Brian: if you can't see the difference between a minority Labour government that - in your words (from your original posts on this issue)- dares the Lib Dems to vote it down, and a coalition government based on a mutually agreed set of objectives, then you need to take a second look.

The Tory victory looks like evidence of how little the public is now willing to tolerate compromise of any sort: the message that hit home hardest during the campaign was the threat of constitutional chaos if a minority Labour government had tried to cling to power with the support of the SNP and a host of other minor parties.

In Berlin in 1923, the SPD's Rudolf Hilferding was a model of economic orthodoxy; as was Philip Snowden in London in 1924, Chancellor in a minority Labour government that busied itself with nothing much besides RAF bombing of recalcitrant tribes in Iraq (Elliott, 1993, 38).

In turn the Liberals supported the 1924, 1929 and 1977 minority Labour governments.

Not exact matches

Of the 634 voters it spoke to who ranked Labour as their first preference, 49 % said they would prefer a minority government, compared to 30 % who wanted to see a coalition with the Liberal Democrats.

In Scotland, the SNP had led a minority government for the previous four years, but two other major parties (Labour and the Liberal Democrats) were punished electorally for decisions taken in London.

That explains yesterday's hubristic comments from Alex Salmond in declaring he will be able to force Labour to commit to spending that will benefit Scotland in the party's first Budget as a minority government.

Raising the electoral mountain Labour would need to climb to form a Government, exercising minority or coalition rule let alone governing with a majority, is an unexpected gift for the fifth largest force in UK politics: Momentum.

The worry I have is that Cameron will form a minority government and Labour will abstain and let him.

The Labour leader duly obliged - despite the fact both parties believe the far likelier scenario is that Scottish MPs could support a Labour minority government in keeping with their ambition to support a «progressive» government in London.

As the Minority in Parliament, we are in strong solidarity with the labour front in pressurising the NPP government to ensuring that the liberties of the Ghanaian worker is not infringed upon, while cooperating with all efforts targeted at improved cost of living and the dignity of the Ghanaian workforce.

At that point, a Labour coalition or minority government starts looking much more likely given the absence of potential Tory partners.

So let us imagine the Lib Dems do vote Labour down and a Tory minority government forms.

Instead, Labour either do a deal with the Lib Dems to get a working majority, or they work as a minority government.

If it did happen my guess is that the Lib Dems would probably choose to stay outside and let Labour form a minority government.

At the moment though, Labour's only option might be to form a perilous minority government, but nothing more.

For Labour, concessions to this by constant apologies that the last government got it «wrong» on immigration or saying there are «legitimate concerns» on immigration are seen in the same way and risk repelling significant sections of the electorate, especially among those Labour needs to win over or persuade to turn out — notably 2010 Liberal Democrats and ethnic minority voters.

If the party adopts this policy and implements it in government before the election we will be able to show ethnic minority communities that the Liberal Democrats have delivered where Labour messed up.