Sentences with phrase «minority administration»

It's hard to see how this ends in any scenario other than a Tory minority administration reliant on the DUP.

It is a different scenario for minority administrations with a larger seat advantage over the official opposition.

It was a hard - won deal for the Liberal Democrats and will lead to far more progressive outcomes for Britain than a Conservative minority administration.

This means an extra administrative step on the road to voting, and an opportunity to add any number of potholes along the way for minorities an administration doesn't want to see voting.

Following the election a coalition was formed between the Labour Party and the Conservatives which replaced the previous SNP minority administration.

It would be a Labour minority administration led by Mr Miliband, supported by a reduced rump of Lib Dems with much more conviction than they currently show, and tolerated by the socialists of the nationalist parties.

Despite the various residents associations winning the most seats, an agreement was not struck and a Conservative Party minority administration was formed.

Nevertheless, this provides Labour with plenty of ammunition at the next set of council elections (current council is Tory minority administration propped up by UKIP), as this is a horrendous situation.

To date, the King government is the country's longest - lasting minority administration.

And with the prospect of another hung parliament this May, all the talk of a vote - by - vote minority administration propped up by nationalist MPs means we could be going back to the 1970s in more ways than one.

Sixty - three MSPs will also support a much more experienced and powerful minority administration than the 47 SNP representatives elected back in 2007, but a couple of aspects of the Nationalists» election campaign have created potential problems for the future.

Instead Brown may play a longer game and gamble that a Tory minority administration making unpopular spending cuts during a double - dip recession will rapidly lose support, raising the prospect of fighting an autumn election with his record for economic competence intact.

And Miss Sturgeon repeated her party's promise to overthrow a Tory minority administration even if the Conservatives have more seats than any other party after the Election.

Council had a LibDem minority administration a bit over ten years ago when a wayward councillor threw all into disrepute...

Following the 2012 election a coalition had been formed between the Labour Party and the Conservatives which replaced the previous SNP minority administration.

Five years ago, both boroughs were run by Conservative minorities, which were replaced by Labour - Lib Dem coalitions, which were succeeded in turn by Labour minority administrations.

Miliband might be tempted to run a one - party minority administration.

Writing in the Daily Telegraph, former Tory chairman Lord Tebbit predicted recently that «whichever of the main party leaders fails to get into No 10 after the election, Mr Cameron will make full use of his rights as a sitting tenant and carry on as prime minister — but of a Conservative minority administration».

This election has been a disaster for them, as it has too for the Liberal Democrats, who paid the price for locking themselves into a secure majority government for five years rather than seeing what they could achieve by working with a Tory minority administration.

The PP could try to partner the liberal Ciudadanos in a minority administration, which would have to lurch from one parliamentary vote to another.

It's also possible that Harper, himself, could pull the plug on his minority administration at some point before the next fixed election date — just as he did in September — although such a move would make an utter mockery of Harper's own, now - tarnished, fixed - election law.

If the electorate vote to repeal the Eighth Amendment, any draft legislation would only become law if the Dail voted for it, and that is not a foregone conclusion given the Fine Gael coalition is a minority administration and TDs will vote on conscience.

Andrew Hawkins argues that having a minority administration or coalition after the next election could reinvigorate the political process

Andrew Hawkins argues that having a minority administration or coalition after the next election...

The question then becomes whether one side or the other could form a minority administration.

He's touring the TV studios insisting Labour is ready to form a minority administration.

Few seem to genuinely question the fact that such a coalition was both arithmetically difficult and lacked a significant degree of political will on the part of the Labour Party; nor does anyone seem to genuinely believe that a Tory minority administration would be either more progressive or provide the country with the stability it needs at a fragile time.

Despite David Cameron's initial impulse to form a minority administration it soon became clear during that chaotic first fortnight the task seemed likely to be beyond him.

Plaid Cymru warned Mr Morgan not to attempt a minority administration.

As things stand, members of the Socialist party in Spain (PSOE) are deciding whether to abstain and allow the PP to form a minority administration or to continue to block the PP, forcing new elections.

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.

They're in a somewhat better position, in that the SNP won't necessarily oppose them out of hand, but the fact they won't bring the nationalists into a formal coalition that an Ed Miliband government is a minority administration by default.

It may not be good for the future of politics but needs must and it may be enough to ensure the Party wins enough seats to have a hope of forming another coalition or going it alone as a minority administration.

The alternative would be to end the coalition and run as a minority administration, but press the Lib Dems to vote on individual measures, a system known as confidence and supply.

This will allow the successful nomination of Carwyn Jones as first minister, and the establishment of a Labour minority administration.

There will be no coalitions or minority administrations and so the Conservatives» principal opponents are no longer relevant to the government - formation process.

The SNP runs a minority administration in Scotland.

Milton Keynes South has given the Conservatives another gain from Labour, bringing David Cameron closer to being able to control a minority administration.

«One influential group wants him to break the Coalition and separate from the Lib Dems after May's European elections, so as to govern as a minority administration for the last eight or nine months before the next general election.

Labour had been running a minority administration since 2014 and the council has been hung for many years.

If the Conservatives go forward as a minority administration, they will fill all the ministerial positions themselves.

After a split in the Labour Party the Conservatives have now formed a minority administration on Harrow Council.

Equally, a minority administration would have been too fragile to tackle the political and economic challenges ahead.»

The Conservatives had lost their majority on the council in 2013 due to defections, and since then had operated a minority administration.

Just under half - 48 per cent - of those questioned said the new government should be led by the Conservatives - either in a minority administration or at the head of a coalition.

Following the results of the United Kingdom general election, 2015 and Scottish Parliament election, 2016, all of Renfrewshire's parliamentarians are Scottish National Party, with the council administered by an SNP minority administration, elected in the Scottish local elections, 2017.

They lost a single seat (Buckskin) to Labour and continued their minority administration.