Sentences with phrase «of a hung parliament at»

ComRes puts the possibility of a hung Parliament at about 35 per cent, up from 15 per cent six months ago.

Being the party conference season, there has been much discussion about the possibility of a hung parliament at the next election.

They put the chance of another hung parliament at 13/8.

Leanne Wood has made a pitch for the votes of former Labour supporters against a backdrop of Ukip by - election victories and the possibility of a hung parliament at Westminster in May.

He also indicated he would be prepared to work with the other main parties in government in the event of a hung Parliament at the next election.

Not exact matches

Italian stocks fell at the start of this morning's trading, after populist parties won almost half the vote in Italy's Sunday elections, and early results suggested the country is heading for a hung parliament due to no party or coalition of parties meeting the 40 % threshold for stable governance.

At the same time, not many audiences would be quite so anoraked as to hit the host with a barrage of questions about majorities and departmental carve - ups when he asks, in a moment of audience interaction, what Nick Clegg should do if faced with another hung parliament.

With the polls suggesting a hung Parliament, I'm rather excited at the prospect of the battle ahead.

I am about to put up a blog post at http://www.barder.com/ephems/ suggesting the outline of Labour's best line to take with the LibDems after the election has produced a hung parliament, if it does, and before parliament meets, while Brown and other Labour ministers sit tight, refusing to yield to the unconstitutional clamour for their resignation.

The single most likely outcome (central forecast) is at the bottom of the pie chart and that is a seriously hung parliament with the Conservatives as clearly the largest party but a majority on the left, including the SNP and Liberal Democrats.

If the Liberal Democrats can ensure that their party structures operate so as to allow a clear voice to come through, they have every chance of putting forward a distinctive manifesto at the next election - one that will, in all likelihood, put it closer to a reformed Labour Party, should the Alternative Vote deliver another hung parliament.

That leaves an 86 % chance of a hung parliament, and Ed Miliband's clear advantage in government formation (last week we gave him a 52 % chance of being able to put together a majority, at least for a confidence motion, to David Cameron's 35 %) has eroded.

It seeped into the public's consciousness, and was difficult to handle without insulting the intelligence of the electorate — because of course left - of - centre parties would at least talk to one another in the event of a hung parliament.

With some of the polls pointing to a hung Parliament, or at least some commentators and the Lib Dems hyping it up, it is worth revisiting Mark Oaten's Coalition: The Politics and Personalities of Coalition Government from 1850, published in 2007.

Some of those in the crowd said before the speech they thought the idea of an outright Labour win was unlikely but most said they were hopeful of a hung parliament, or at worst a very small Conservative majority.

Polling at just 6 % across the country won't matter so long as the party can return a sufficient number of MPs to carry real weight in another hung parliament.

Analysts say the spread could see the Conservatives claim a 100 - seat majority at the next election, although electoral commentators maintain a hung parliament is the most likely result of a Labour defeat.

I didn't think about it at the time, but this will be one of those moments historians will write about when they tell the story of the hung Parliament.

The leader of the Liberal Democrats yesterday said his party would not «bail out» the Government if there were a hung parliament at the next general election.

Dr Julian Lewis: What sort of signal does it send to Iran and other hostile would - be proliferators that our nuclear deterrent could be put at ransom in the event of another hung Parliament, as a result of our not having signed the key contracts and the hostility towards the replacement of Trident evinced by the Liberal Democrats?

Using different methods, pollsters are divided about the extent of the Conservative lead, but they all show the gap with Labour shrinking, making the landslide Mrs. May hoped for unlikely and even, for at least one polling company, raising the possibility of a hung Parliament.

My fall - back hope is that if it's to be just AV at a referendum after the general election, that might still be enough to encourage the reawakening of some kind of anti-Tory coalition, with Cameron revealed as the democratic dinosaur he clearly is — enough to deliver at least a hung parliament.

But the interest in the possibility is at least as much a reflection of the political class's frustration with the predictability of the David Cameron versus Gordon Brown contest as of any convincing likelihood that the next parliament will be hung.

analysis of a hung Parliament, looking at the alternatives of supporting informally or formally either Labour or theConservatives.

[157] Under the constitution governing what happens in the event of a hung parliament, Brown remained temporarily as Prime Minister, [158] while the Liberal Democrats and Conservatives entered into talks aimed at forming a coalition government.

At the election, Labour lost 91 seats in the House of Commons, but the Conservatives failed to achieve an overall majority, resulting in the first hung parliament since 1974.

In an article for today's Platform, Mike Smithson of PoliticalBetting.com forecasts a hung parliament at the next General Election.

Gordon Brown could remain at Number 10 for weeks even if he loses the election, under plans to prevent a run on the pound in the event of a hung parliament.

Gordon Brown (18/4/10) Hung parliaments, campaign, the Queen - 12m 18s (48.5 %) Immigration - 5m 21s (21 %) Bankers - 3m 11s (12.5 %) Ash cloud - 2m 40s (10.5 %) Afghanistan - 1m 56s (7.5 %) Cuts, deficit - 0 m 0s (0 %) Nick Clegg (25/4/10) Hung parliaments, Clegg personally - 11m 7s (49.7 %) Immigration - 7m 32s (33.7 %) Trident - 3m 42s (16.6 %) Cuts, deficit - 0m os (0 %) David Cameron (2/5/10) Cuts, deficit - 15m 26s (67 %) Priorities - 3m 20s (14.5 %) Hung parliament, campaign - 3 m 0s (13 %) Living Wage - 1m 18s (5.5 %) Given that all three interviews lasted well over 20 minutes each, shouldn't some of that time (at least 5 minutes) have been given over to asking Mr Brown and Mr Clegg about cuts, taxes and the deficit?

[31] Data gathered from individuals at 130 polling stations around the country suggested a hung parliament, with an initial estimate that the Conservative Party would achieve 307 seats — 19 seats short of a controlling majority.

FPTP allows change, and amplifies the swings of preference to give opposing camps a proper majority, without the protection of «we would, only our allies X...» You only have to see Alex Salmond's salivation at the prospect of a hung parliament in May, planning to «hang Westminster by a Scottish rope», to know what smaller parties would happily do.

At 9:41 am on 7 May, the BBC confirmed a «hung parliament», as it was by then impossible for the Conservative party to gain the number of seats needed to form a majority government.

In February 1974 — the last instance of a hung parliament following a general election — Labour won 301 seats and the Conservatives 297, but the then Tory prime minister, Edward Heath, remained at Downing Street until the Monday after the election as he tried to form an alliance with the Liberals.

Peter Riddell, political commentator and assistant editor at The Times, told Channel 4 News: «In Britain we live in a majoritarian political culture, so in the event of a hung parliament all the players will be thinking of a second general election.

If repeated in at the general election there would be a hung parliament, with the Tories around 14 seats short of a majority.

The Conservatives shocked everyone by winning a small majority at the 2015 General Election, despite predictions of a hung parliament and the possibility of constitutional wrangling over who had legitimacy to form the next Government.

«Lord Ashcroft: I'm a non-dom but will soon become a full UK taxpayer Main The choice at this election is a choice between a strong Conservative government and the economic chaos of a hung parliament»

The joint BBC / ITV / Sky exit poll, taken at dozens of polling stations across the UK, and announced as the real polls closed, predicted a hung Parliament, with the Conservatives just short of an overall majority and the Lib Dems not doing much better than they had in 2005.

The significance of a five - point lead is that it is the point at which, on a conventional projection, Labour would win more seats in a hung parliament than the Tories.

Owners can invite their friends over to introduce them to the experience of hanging out at a bar «situated on the banks of the river Thames overlooking The Houses of Parliament».

A similar sense of gloom hung over Mexican artist Guillermo Santamarina's recent exhibition at House of Gaga, Mexico City, «Funkadelic's Parliament (or the de (re) valued insignias)», which convened gothic literary and musical references.

At the start of this election campaign, the best that could have been hoped for was another hung parliament.

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