Sentences with phrase «of a majority government»

We are only 23 seats short of a majority government.

As you rightly mentioned in your question, arguments in favour of majority government is that they tend to last much longer, bringing with it an element of stability.

Now that the dust from the election has settled, Canadian executives are looking forward to seeing the Conservatives take advantage of their majority government to implement new policies concerning business.

What if you are an activist who is terrified and depressed at the prospect of a majority government that would allow Stephen Harper to carry out a fulsome Conservative agenda?

Polls taken during the first week of the election campaign, however, have suggested a widening lead for the Conservatives and the possibility of a majority government — a goals that has forever seemed beyond the party's grasp since it took power in early 2006.

The fundamental long - term problems this country faces — inequality, a struggling education system, growing health costs, changing employment patterns, environmental threats — are ones that a series of majority governments (and I include the coalition, which had a big parliamentary majority) have failed to address.

Yet the 2015 election has demonstrated that with small shifts in voting they can achieve the holy grail of majority government.

In his first statement outside Number 10, David Cameron said that as the head of a majority government he can deliver all of his manifesto.

David Cameron, prime minister of a majority government, had to carefully time his parliamentary vote on airstrikes over Syria in order to win.

There was even talk in some quarters that AV would deliver semi-permanent blue - yellow realignment - so best for Tories to drop their dream of a majority Government.

And he examines the challenges for the Tories if they are to achieve their goal of a majority government at the 2015 general election.

Liberal commentator Olly Grender said it was old fashioned to suggest that the best decision - making came as the result of a majority government.

In the 2005 general election, Labour was re-elected for a third term, but with a reduced majority of 66 and popular vote of only 35.2 %, the lowest percentage of any majority government in British history.

Further discussions then led to the establishment of a formal coalition between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats, which enabled the formation of a majority government, because it was thought that would ensure more stability.

The Coalition could hammer out as detailed a Spending Review as it can, whilst the Tories make it clear — either in footnotes or in a separate document — what they would do in case of a majority government after 2015.

Although absent from the Conservative manifesto, the policy is the stated aim of a majority government recently elected at a general election (albeit on just 37 % of the vote) and on which the Commons has voted (twice) in favour.

PR or MMP systems would both fragment the traditional party system, and reshape our notions of majority government.

With margins narrowing between the main parties the polling forecast would still see Labour gain the most seats - although the party would be 58 seats short of a majority government.

«I think there's increasing evidence that people want the stability and the accountability, frankly, of a majority government, because then what you put in your manifesto is what gets put into place in Government.