Sentences with phrase «not coalition policy»

«A referendum on Europe during the midpoint of the next parliament is Conservative party policy, though not coalition policy.

«David Cameron said «no ifs, no buts» he would deliver on his target to cut net migration to the tens of thousands, yet Vince Cable said that it isn't coalition policy,» she said.

Not exact matches

«The coalition that allowed a majority to form government in March 1933 might not have been able to form had fiscal policy been more expansionary,» the researchers wrote.

The coalition's second - best policy distorts trade and is not time consistent.

Urban voters will not back a Wildrose / PC coalition (assuming it gets off the ground) because they're too progressive to regress on social policy.

Even the best - sourced experts can't discern how policy preferences and objectives shape political coalitions or élite Party divisions, and we lack critical diagnostic information that would be necessary to confirm or refute competing hypotheses about major political questions.

But the fiscal conservatives and the strong foreign - policy advocates don't have that power either, and without at least a good percentage of social conservatives to form the third leg of the Reagan coalition, no candidate has much chance of winning the Republican nomination.

Margaret Tutwiler informed us that when the President had told conservative Protestant broadcasters that the U.S. wanted unconditional surrender and a war crimes trial, he was expressing his emotions, not policy; that when Secretary of State James Baker and his Soviet colleague Alexander Bessmertnykh said that the coalition would accept a cease - fire and would promise a regional peace conference, that was inoperative because it had not been checked.

The 1998 act passed because a remarkable coalition of Jews and Christians was prepared to do battle not only with the foreign policy mandarins but also with oldline liberal churches and secular human rights organizations who complained that concern for persecuted Christians is an instance of «special pleading.»

Peter Martin reports in the Age today - All is not fair in supermarkets» share - that a «coalition of Greens, an independent and a Liberal believe they are in striking distance of forcing a inquiry into national competition policy».

Responding to research from the Consumers Health Forum, the Heart Foundation, the Obesity Policy Coalition and the Public Health Association of Australia, the Council's CEO Geoff Parker said better education around diet and lifestyle, not taxes, is a far better and more commonsense approach for a healthier country.

Comment - UK Alcohol Policy is All Bluff and Bluster The UK's Coalition Government is showing every sign of being stumped by the country's love affair with the bottle, not that the industry is compla

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«The farm bill should not be used for offsets,» said Ferd Hoefner, the policy director of the Sustainable Agriculture Coalition.

The election of Mauricio Macri, leader of the Cambiemos («Let's Change») coalition, to the presidency should not be seen as yet another shift in Argentina's policy pendulum.

I don't see why someone needs to support every single govt policy to serve in the govt, even under a single - party administration, much less a coalition.

The coalition announced its new housing package earlier this month, but not enough has been done to overturn these inherited policies.

Again, the legislative programme here does not bode well for the Coalition Government and its dearth of policies on growth is alarmingly complacent.

Whether it would be a coalition, confidence - and - supply or some other kind of agreement is not addressed here; that is less important for policy than which parties are involved.

(The Downing Street Policy Unit can make policy only for the Coalition, not the PPolicy Unit can make policy only for the Coalition, not the Ppolicy only for the Coalition, not the Party.)

This could be undertaken in a formal coalition or an informal arrangement known as confidence and supply, where a smaller party agrees to back the larger partner in crucial votes in return for policies but does not take ministerial seats.

What the party still does not seem to recognise, or at least accept as a problem, is that the coalition can be best understood as the preferred option of a leadership grouping that has consistently proposed policies designed to reduce the role of the state and so move a centre - left party steadily rightwards.

Earlier this year, I asked how Party policy was to be developed for the next election - since the Government's official machinery, such as the Downing Street Policy Unit, works for the Coalition, not the policy was to be developed for the next election - since the Government's official machinery, such as the Downing Street Policy Unit, works for the Coalition, not the Policy Unit, works for the Coalition, not the Party.

Tepid, woolly stuff, I'm afraid.The problem with Labour — and it's a tough pill to swallow if you're looking for the alternatives to the Coalition policies — is that there's sod all of substance it disagrees with: simply playing different mood music isn't good enough.

Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, said: «It is clear that on many of the key education policy issues the majority of parents do not share Coalition Ministers» views».

«The government goes into European negotiations with no policy on European defence; it is not mentioned in the coalition agreement; no policy on European energy - also not mentioned; and on justice and home affairs, all they can say is that they will review cases one by one; no principles, no plans,» he said.

Hence the Lib Dems must not endorse this particular approach to fiscal policy, a compromise made for the purposes of this coalition, as Party policy for the next election.

Nick Clegg himself has admitted: «In a coalition, parties are not always able to deliver on their preferred policy options.»

Electoral reform is viewed as a key policy goal for Liberal Democrat grassroots activists, who many Conservative ministers fear could force the premature collapse of the coalition if they do not succeed in making major policy gains.

Francesco, I can't myself see a Tory - LibDem coalition working, because it would need an EU policy, and the «being open'to electoral reform is very contentless.

He added: «The reference to the tens of thousands of immigrants rather than hundreds of thousands is not part of the coalition agreement, it is Tory party policy only.»

Cameron clearly lacked enthusiasm for the policy — «the Coalition Agreement mentions this issue of anonymity» — and there is every indication they are both surprised at the reaction and not much up for a fight with women's groups about it.

Coalition ministers have repeatedly criticised the opposition for not having any distinctive alternatives to their policies in the first half of this parliament.

NASUWT is at the front line, not just defending but attacking the outrageous policies of this coalition government.

Whatever the theoretical merits and policy dovetails, coalitions do not work in the British political system.

Mixed messages from the Coalition government around schools policy are not only confusing, but also raise deeper questions about whether they have a firm position on schooling at all.

Fourthly, Lib Dem and swing voters especially will not forgive Lib Dems for precipitating the demise of the Coalition government, probably two years before it is due to end, not on a point of principle, such as on tuition fees, tax policy, social policy like gay marriage, Trident, the European treaty veto or the health or welfare bills but on... an issue of narrow partisan electoral self interest, i.e. unhappiness at boundary changes (which they had already voted for in February 2011).

Governor Andrew Cuomo has said he will judge the coalition on policy, not on the Senate's internal politics.

«I don't have a solution, but as Plaid Cymru found out in the One Wales Agreement with Labour, it's often difficult for junior partners in coalitions to retain ownership of policies.

Much as I want to see the Coalition out of office I can not feel that a Labour Party that follow the Tories in this sort of policy deserves to be in office.

This would not be a formal coalition so the SNP would have no automatic access to policy documents or the civil service, nor would it have any additional financial support.

Not based on any of the actual policies which he and the coalition are pursuing, as that might suggest otherwise, but simply because of his charm, good manners and false ingratiating behaviour at prime minister's questions.

They've had to vote for a wishy - washy amendment to avoid splitting the coalition, but it's at the cost of not voting for one of their manifesto policies.

«Please name 3 «Red Ed» policies not supported by either a governing Coalition party or David Miliband.»

They don't have any uniquely attractive policies (unlike, say, RTB and privatization stagging in Thatcher's day), & they will have to take economic measures which will cost them support (which is why Cammo wants a coalition if he can get it).

«It can not be considered efficient if the Coalition Government writes off more than # 160 million of tax payers» money and yet, at the same time, persists with a policy of creating academies and free schools that are both expensive and unwanted by the public.

Notably, these left wing coalitions didn't really have to change anything to have those more attractive policies for Muslims.

As Muslims have come to become more than an insignificant share of the left wing coalition in many parts of Western Europe and North America, despite the left wing not many any real policy concessions to attract them, members of left wing parties have come to have more interpersonal contact with Muslims which has led to reduced fear and increased mutual understanding, and political leaders in left wing parties have felt it politic and appropriate to refrain from emphasizing policies and issues that actively antagonize a not insignificant share of their coalition even when (if push came to shove) they might be uneasy with some of the political and social views of this part of their coalition.

· This 200,00 children is in addition to the 400,000 more children that the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has previously projected will be living in relative poverty by 2015 as a result of coalition policies, and the 800,000 more children it estimates will living in relative poverty by 2020 (http://www.ifs.org.uk/comms/comm121.pdf) · The government has not disclosed the likely impact of its sub-inflation uprating on absolute poverty rates which measure whether children are experiencing a real, as opposed to relative, fall in the standard of living.

«The reference to the tens of thousands of immigrants rather than hundreds of thousands is not part of the coalition agreement, it is Tory party policy only,» Mr Cable told the BBC.