Sentences with phrase «not in parliament»

They feel betrayed... Betrayed because for the past one month that the majority members have been working in their constituencies and are not in parliament.

Johnson has reached the end of the road, and Tony has lost all credibility; no one seriously believes in his return to active politics surely, maybe as a retired elder Statesman but not in Parliament.

- Labour mayoral hopefuls Sadiq Khan, David Lammy and Diane Abbott all rebelled while Gareth Thomas abstained, suggesting that those who are standing for election in the party sense they can not withstand the pressure to look left (Tessa Jowell, of course, is not in parliament anymore).

Smith can portray himself as the «change» candidate who will move Labour on from the past as he is untainted by the Iraq War and was not in parliament during the Tony Blair and Gordon Brown years.

Representing Australia / ns in parliament is your chance to use all your talent and resources to accomplish something worthwhile.

Not exact matches

Blockchain experts have been testifying to the British Parliament about the technology, and it doesn't seem like they're hugely confident in its supposedly world - changing potential.

The social network's Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer apologized for the breach of users» trust in a statement given to the U.K. parliament's media committee Thursday and admitted in a hearing that Facebook did not read all the terms and conditions of the app that shared data.

They have also demanded a new vote on the budget for next year after the government approved the spending plan by not putting it though parliament, but holding the vote in an nearby chamber, with a high number of government supporters — something that the country's opposition deemed as «illegal.»

While approval is not a given since the ruling coalition government led by Abe's LDP does not have a majority in the upper house of parliament, most analysts do not foresee any problems given signs this week that main opposition parties will not block the nominations.

BARCELONA, SPAIN — They have been beaten for trying to hold a referendum, their parliament has been dissolved and their leaders have either fled or been put in prison, but the Catalan independence supporters are not relenting.

After earning a reputation as a gifted debater in parliament, Fernandez and CUP's radical rhetoric have struck a note with pro-independence Catalans who are angry about the languishing economy and firm in their belief that Catalonia does not get back what it pays in taxes to Madrid.

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.

Orban, who in common with other Eastern European leaders is anxious to show voters that they have not swapped half a century of rule from Moscow for diktat from Brussels, defended himself in the European Parliament on Wednesday.

«You're so ridiculously proud of your self - declared majority, but you don't have enough votes to approve the Afghanistan decree,» Berlusconi said in parliament.

The Progressive Party does not have a big presence in parliament, and the coalition government wants to complete the EU application process.

But that moniker doesn't touch on what she's best known for: founding Iceland's radical Pirate Party, the collection of anarchists, libertarians, and techies that could gain control of the Nordic island's parliament in an election Saturday.

Talks will take place in the «coming weeks» about a transition deal, which Verhofstadt believes will be a «continuation of the existing rules, the existing policies, without [the UK] having a say» because Britain will no longer be a member of the European Parliament, adding that the EU is not against a transition period.

She added: «Sensitivities around negotiations with the EU must not be used as an excuse to keep taxpayers and Parliament in the dark.

In a televised speech on Thursday afternoon, Carles Puigdemont said he had not received a guarantee from Spain that it would not apply direct rule over Catalonia if the regional parliament were dissolved.

Although the Council's stance on this element of the incoming data protection regulation won't become official until member states agree on the whole thing — an event that will trigger negotiations with the European Parliament — it does represent a major step forward, as the nature of the one - stop - shop mechanism has been the major sticking point in reaching overall agreement.

In February, after female reporters complained that lawmaker Leonid Slutsky had harassed them in parliament, not only were there no demands that he step down, but a deputy speaker of the Duma, Igor Lebedev, called for these journalists to be barred from covering the legislaturIn February, after female reporters complained that lawmaker Leonid Slutsky had harassed them in parliament, not only were there no demands that he step down, but a deputy speaker of the Duma, Igor Lebedev, called for these journalists to be barred from covering the legislaturin parliament, not only were there no demands that he step down, but a deputy speaker of the Duma, Igor Lebedev, called for these journalists to be barred from covering the legislature.

Kosovo's opposition lawmakers release a teargas canister inside the country's parliament in before a vote for an agreement to ratify or not a border demarcation deal signed in 2015 with Montenegro.

It's not — from the people who serve in this Parliament, it's not enough to simply follow the rules or follow the ethics code or even follow the law because we have a government right now that has broken repeatedly all three of those.

For example, while businesses and government departments in the UK must comply with the Data Protection Act, the Canadian parliament is currently debating a new piece of legislation, the Information Sharing Act, which will allow all departments of government to share information in ways that are not currently permitted in the UK.

In fact, the government decided to do all this while Parliament wasn't sitting, so it wouldn't be debated.»

Despite the fact that at least five of the judges involved in the two appeal court judgements were originally appointed to lower courts by Brian Mulroney's Conservative government, Harper insisted: «It was the government that decided to put the judges on the bench, the government that decided not to appeal, the government that decided to lose the case and the government that decided not to come back to Parliament.

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.

«This agreement has not been debated in or sanctioned by our Parliament.

«We should be ready, if we don't have 100 percent participation and if Europe doesn't want to give us more money,» Christos Staikouras, a member of the Greek Parliament from the center - right New Democracy opposition party and its economic spokesman, said in an interview.

For sure, Mr. Moore would be on surer footing here if the Conservative Party of Canada hadn't pleaded guilty to violating election spending limits in 2008 and if the Harper government wasn't the only government in this country's history to have been found in contempt of Parliament and if the RCMP wasn't said to be presently investigating Mr. Harper's former chief of staff and and if two Conservative MPs weren't presently in court with Elections Canada and if the Prime Minister hadn't left for Peru without facing the House on the first day that Parliament was in session after the deal between Mr. Wright and Mr. Duffy was revealed and if the Prime Minister hadn't fail to show up in the House on the following Monday and if Mr. Duffy hadn't remained a Conservative senator for awhile despite having apparently claimed a housing allowance he shouldn't have.

Despite intense lobbying by US tech, the European Parliament and Council was not dissuaded from passing what Reding has called the «gold standard» in data privacy protection.

«I think, given the extraordinary evidence we've heard so far today, it is absolutely astonishing that Mark Zuckerberg is not prepared to submit himself to questioning in front of a parliamentary or congressional hearing, given these are questions of fundamental importance and concern to his users, as well as to this inquiry,» Damian Collins, the member of parliament heading the UK committee, said earlier on Tuesday.

Indeed, in 2013, in response to continued suggestions by the media and governments that Bitcoin was playing a primary role in funding terrorism, the UK parliament issued a report indicating that ISIS was not receiving any significant funding through virtual currency:

In his September 2017 «state of the Union» address, Juncker declared that Europeans were not «naïve free traders» and presented a Commission proposal for an EU foreign investment screening procedure.21 The Commission's proposal is currently making its way through the European Parliament and might be adopted by the end of the year.

Also, while it likely won't hit until 2018, issuers should track the amendments to the Canadian Business Corporations Act, which passed their first reading in Parliament in September.

Stages in the legislative process that make a bill law in the Canadian Parliament; ministers (not including the Prime Minister) on cabinet's powerful Priorities and Planning committee; former political figures (not including sovereigns or social activists) memorialized in bronze around Parliament Hill — twelve is the number in each of these interesting categories.

The misuse of Budget Bills reflects an arrogance that sees Canadians as not caring about the deeply diminished role of Parliament and the erosion of democracy that they have introduced in recent years.

A Borrowing Authority Bill was viewed as a «money bill» and therefore regarded as a «vote of confidence», and would result in the defeat of the government if not approved by Parliament.

Trying to push British Columbians around won't get Notley and Trudeau the pipeline they want — and neither will anything else Photo: thestar.com When England's Model Parliament was first called in 1295, King Edward the First wrote a writ of summons calling for citizens across the land to join him.

Mr. Flaherty probably doesn't know, and probably doesn't care, but he has done Parliament» and Canadians, a huge favour by tabling his budget in February, provided the President of the Treasury Board provides a reconciliation between the two sets of numbers.

He certainly hasn't been in Parliament answering questions about the economy and how the government intends to act to strengthen economic growth and job creation.

To ensure that relations between the auditor and the audited company do not become too cozy, members of the European Parliament approved a mandatory rotation rule whereby an auditor may inspect a company's books for a maximum of 14 years, which could be increased to 25 years if safeguards are put in place.

«Speaking to members of the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh, the Scottish Environment Minister Paul Wheelhouse said the ban should be extended «indefinitely» and that «the Scottish government will not support the development of unconventional oil and gas in Scotland.»

ECB President Mario Draghi asserted in his recent speech before the European Parliament, EP, that Athens will not receive any new payments unless it meets the rescue plan's requirements.

We have not arrived on the exact mechanism in which that could be done,» Mr. MacKay said on Parliament Hill on Wednesday, adding: «We're examining it.

A daunting list, but shorter than it was two years ago and it would be shorter still if it were not for political obstructions to proposed reforms such as the GST in the upper house of parliament where Mr. Modi's government does not have a majority.

Besides the news that Elizabeth May would be joining the leaders» debate, the big news yesterday was Stephen Harper's announcement that Canada's current military mission in Afghanistan would not be extended past the 2011 deadline established by Parliament.

As a result, Parliament is not given fulfill information in the Estimates when examining these programs.

Since the deal was officially approved by the European Parliament in February, however, it's possible that you may not have heard much about the deal.

Yes to democracy: proportional representation, a Parliament held in respect, not contempt, and laws that encourage rather than suppress the vote.