Sentences with phrase «of a hung parliament as»

The Labour peer added that his party is suffering after being in power for 13 years and that he was «not as fearful» of a hung parliament as others.

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Bourses in Europe were lower Monday as investors took a cautious approach as they came to terms with a hung parliament in the U.K. and awaited a meeting of the Federal Reserve later this week.

Arsio: Iranian Jews - those who haven't fled after seeing many of their community hanged as «spies» - have a couple of token seats in the powerless Iranian parliament.

Combined with the expectation of a slight incumbency boost — that same bump the Conservatives have been praying for months for now - a hung parliament with the Tories as the largest party seems a plausible scenario.

These specially commissioned works are the collection's crme de la crme, and are hung in communal areas of Parliament, known as the line of route, so they can be viewed by as many people as possible.

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 a hung parliament now viewed as the most likely outcome of the election, Allen's comments aren't just dry theory any more.

The single most likely outcome of the May general election is a seriously hung parliament with the Conservatives as clearly the largest party but a majority on the left.

The details of the stillborn coalition negotiations between the two centre - left parties comes as senior figures in both parties start building bridges ahead of what is expected to be another hung parliament in 2015.

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.

I have been trying in recent weeks to publicise in my blog and in LabourList the little - known procedures in the event of a hung parliament, under which whatever the results in votes and seats, Gordon Brown will be both entitled and obliged to continue in office until he has met parliament as prime minister and ascertained by the vote on his Queen's Speech whether he still commands a majority in the House.

Of course, it is perfectly possible that we get a hung parliament, as YouGov has suggested.

Clegg and the Lib Dems made premeditated false statements on student fees, speed of cuts, immigration etc etc intending to change them after the election finished in a hung Parliament as everyone predicted it would be.

IF, and it's a big IF, there were to be a hung Parliament next time around, far better that the LibDems (and I guess this applies to the SNP, Plaid Cymru and Dr. Dick Taylor too) act as kingmakers by voting for or against the government, whether it be Labour or Conservative, * on the merits of each individual piece of legislation * than propping up some of the most loathsome, reactionary policies this side of the self - styled moral crusaders from the ear of High Thatcherism.

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.

Meanwhile, smaller parties such as the Greens, the Liberal Democrats, the UK Independence Party (UKIP) and the Scottish National Party (SNP) could hold the balance of power in a hung parliament after May 2015.

Despite a hung parliament and leadership contest, Gordon Brown's survival throughout 2010 is being hailed as the political miracle of the century.

The next 12 months will see the realities of hung parliament bite, as the coalition's midgame turns to endgame.

Were the 2010 general election to yield a hung parliament, Gordon Brown, like Heath, would be constitutionally entitled to seek coalition; or he could meet parliament as the head of a minority government and challenge the other parties to vote him down.

The Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman will deliver his message to the London School of Economics (LSE) tonight, as the party privately tries to establish red lines for cooperation with others in the event of a hung parliament.

Clegg's comments — seen by many as a hint that he might even work with the Tories rather than Labour in the event of a hung parliament — came as the Conservatives outlined their flagship education policy.

For decades, electoral reform as the price of co-operation in a hung parliament was the Liberal and Liberal Democrat dream.

As the opinion polls tighten and suggest a growing likelihood of a hung parliament, Gaby Hinsliff writes for Channel 4 News about how smaller parties are spotting a golden opportunity.

A new political landscape Back on the hustings, the Conservatives today accused Nick Clegg of trying to «hold the country to ransom» as they unveiled a mock election broadcast from the «Hung Parliament party» warning it would lead to financial catastrophe.

They argue that they may have a vital role to play in the formation of a coalition government if — as appears likely — there is another hung parliament after May 7.

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.

So if, as this poll suggests, they fail to win any of the 20 key Lib Dem - Tory marginals, they will struggle to prevent a hung parliament.

O'Donnell made the announcement to the Commons justice select committee as he published special guidelines for senior civil servants in the event of a hung parliament.

Although 40 per cent is regarded as the «election winning» mark, the weighting of the electoral system means today's poll would result in a hung parliament if translated into votes.

I am not an expert but I imagine the LibDem party would talk to other parties as relevant in a hung parliament scenario, even if a coalition or any less formal kind of arrangement might well not result from that.

I would campaign for a red - yellow deal including electoral reform and an agreed manifesto, were it possible, both now and (perhaps more realistically) in the event of a hung parliament, and for Labour to have a manifesto which did not contain coalition red lines for the LibDems, as that would.

Quote of the week came from Lord O'Donnell, as he predicted a second hung Parliament in May.

For some time this website has pointed out that, despite the relentless negativity of the right - leaning press, Labour is on course to win the next election, albeit probably as the largest party in a hung parliament.

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?

As the main opposition in a hung parliament, Labour still has more to play for than seemed likely in advance of the general election.

The Lib Dem election campaign focused on the likelihood of there being a hung parliament and sold the party as the best option as a coalition partner for either Labour or the Conservatives, promising to stop each party lurching off to the left or the right.

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.

Newsnight presenter Jeremy Paxman interviews Liberal Democrat Nick Clegg on his party's policies, the likelihood that he will be chosen as Britain's next prime minister and which party he would back in the event of hung parliament.

During the last Parliament, the 1922 Committee discussed procedures to junk the three week delay in the event of a hung Parliament - and elect a new Chairman as quickly as possible.

As popular enthusiasm for his party increased, Clegg faced repeated questions over which way he would jump in the event of 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.

But a modest Labour recovery of the sort that some polls are now reporting does not automatically make a hung parliament more likely, as some seem to believe.

A hung parliament, leading to electoral reform as the price the Lib Dems will try to exact as a condition of supporting a minority administration, could be the key.

As «one influential figure» suggests to James Forsyth, Labour's sympathy for such a levy could alter the balance of negotiations in the event of another hung parliament — meaning that «Cameron will have to fold and accept a mansion tax as the price of power.&raquAs «one influential figure» suggests to James Forsyth, Labour's sympathy for such a levy could alter the balance of negotiations in the event of another hung parliament — meaning that «Cameron will have to fold and accept a mansion tax as the price of power.&raquas the price of power.»

Britain is heading for a hung parliament as the Conservatives lose their majority and Labour enjoys a surge of support, according to a shock projection from YouGov.

[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.

There is also a deep antipathy in Labour to the Liberal Democrats for having joined with the Tories, prompting some senior Labour politicians to argue that in event of a hung parliament, they would prefer to try to govern alone as a minority administration.

Although there are differences of preference, and the hung parliament would represent a lack of mandate for any particular party manifesto as a whole, it seems plausible that the ambiguity of both centre - left major party manifestos has been designed so that a compromise hammered out in coalition forming can claim manifesto legitimacy (the same measure being supported by voters of both parties).

Under the constitutional rules governing protocol in the event of a hung parliament, Brown, as the sitting Prime Minister, would remain in office until a new government could be formed, a process which could continue without resolution until the State Opening of Parliament, which was scheduled fparliament, Brown, as the sitting Prime Minister, would remain in office until a new government could be formed, a process which could continue without resolution until the State Opening of Parliament, which was scheduled fParliament, which was scheduled for 25 May.

The election ended in Britain's first hung parliament since 1974, but Cameron still became prime minister of the country within days as the Conservatives formed a coalition with the Liberal Democrats.