Sentences with phrase «of forming the next government»

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Regardless of which party forms the government following the next general election, improving the state of competition needs to be a key priority.

With less than 100 days until the May 9 B.C. Election, the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade has released its 2017 Provincial Election Platform, which outlines key issues and priorities of the regional business community and makes a series of recommendations to the parties running to form the next Provincial Government.

Now the BC Liberals will form the next government and dominate the Legislative Assembly with enough votes to impose their version of economics and progress without too much bothersome consultation or compromise.

The next leader of the NDP will need to work hard to ensure that progressive voters do not flock to one conservative party in order to block another conservative party from forming government during the next election.

Pensions: If you form the next government, what are you prepared to do to lift seniors out of poverty by improving the CPP / QPP?

Yes, the corporate media will wax eloquently about how fortunate Canada is to have the great young new face and hair leading those once detested Liberals back to the prospect of forming Canada's next new government.

The Greater Vancouver Board of Trade expects all parties running to form the next Provincial Government to develop a fully costed and financially responsible election platform.

It is not surprising that for the next fifty years great variations in forms of church - government and of worship are encountered.

To date, therefore, there is no duty of the incumbent government to remain in office during caretaker periods until the next cabinet is formed.

We conclude that the most effective and democratic way to decide who should be tasked with forming the next government in such situations is a vote in parliament to nominate the new Prime Minister, in the form of a recommendation to the Monarch.

The Sunyani Conference, according to Nana Akufo - Addo, will set the tone for the party to meet and «set the agenda and framework for the 2016 campaign, to show the world that the NPP is, indeed, all there, ready to take on the task of winning next year's election and forming an honest government that will provide relief, progress and prosperity for the great, longsuffering people of Ghana.»

It virtually guarantees that Ukip would be forming part of the next government if MPs in the Commons were determined in the same way as those in Holyrood, or Stormont, or in the Welsh Assembly.

Both Clegg and Alexander will today outline detailed plans for # 16 billion of cuts to public spending and # 8 billion of tax increases if they form part of the next government.

In the next few months, Consensus will make recommendations, one of which is expected to be a consolidation of city and county into some form of metropolitan government, according to leaders of the group.

That's why the central task of the whole Labour party, must be to rebuild trust and support to win the next general election and form the next government.

Following the election of Tony Blair as Labour leader in July 1994 after the death of his predecessor John Smith, Ashdown pursued co-operation between the two parties because he wanted to form a coalition government should the next general election end without any party having an overall majority.

Polls are judged first and foremost on whether they correctly indicate which party will form the next government and, as the chart below shows, were the Conservatives not to win an overall majority on June 8, we would be looking at a polling miss of unprecedented magnitude.

Party insiders told The aL - hAJJ that some leading members of the NPP, both home and abroad, now convinced beyond reasonable doubt that Nana Akufo - Addo has destroyed the party and its chances in 2016, have decided to rally around Mr. Paul Afoko to restore hope and position the party to form the next government after John Mahama.

It comes as a series of new polls suggest that the party are making no progress in the marginal seats they need to win from Labour in order to form the next government.

22 % of people say they would be delighted if David Cameron formed the next government, 33 % wouldn't mind and 32 % would be appalling.

Even if it comes to office with a healthy majority, when the next Conservative government is formed, serious consideration should be given to offering Labour MP Frank Field the position of Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.

The more seats a party or grouping has, the more chance it has of forming a government - with 198 seats out of 646 the Conservative Party could only form a government if significant numbers of other MP's decided to back them, as happened in 1924 when there was a situation that the Conservatives didn't want to form a coalition with either other main party and equally the Liberals didn't want a coalition with Labour and the Liberals and Conservatives saw it as an opportunity to allow Labour into government but in a situation in which legislation was still reliant on Liberal and Conservative votes and they could be brought down at the most suitable time, supposing the notional gains were accurate and in the improbable event of the next election going exactly the same way in terms of votes then 214 out of 650 is 32.93 % of seats compared to at 198 out of 646 seats - 30.65 % of seats and the Conservative Party would then be 14 seats closer towards a total neccessary to form a government allowing for the greater number of seats, on the one hand the Conservatives need Labour to fail but equally they need to succeed themselves given that the Liberal Democrats appear likely to oppose anyone forming a government who does not embark on a serious programme to introduce PR, in addition PC & SNP would expect moves towards Independence for Scotland and Wales, the SDLP will be likely to back Labour and equally UKIP would want a committment to withdraw from Europe and anyway will be likely to be in small numbers if any, pretty much that leaves cutting a deal with the DUP which would only add the backing of an extra 10 - 13 MP's.

He has concluded that should a coalition be formed again after the next election, then a minimum of 30 ministers across Government would be required.

Oji stressed the need for all stakeholders and members of the APC to work collectively to ensure total victory of the party in the 2019 election, vowing that APC would form next government in the state come 2019.

We are seen as a part of the establishment that may or may not form the next government if we can convince the voters we have a better strategy than Cameron and Osborne.

«I am therefore appointing Ian Lavery, Co-National Campaign Coordinator, to the additional role of Labour party chair to strengthen our campaigning and party organisation, as we prepare to contest a new general election and form the next government.»

As the political tempo in the country is far rising, a whole lot have been said in the public as to which party should be voted for to form the next government and one major determinant is what a government does to better the life of its citizenzry.

She suggests the focus on who forms the next government distracts a bit from the election from voters» point of view: «We are not getting what we're voting for.

So when the next government is formed, the most influential of Major's former Cabinet ministers will have left the building.

He had spent the day in his Doncaster North constituency devising strategies for the coming hours — perhaps days — expecting a close result and a war of words over which party was best placed to form Britain's next government.

Their concerns date back to those five febrile days in May after the cliffhanger poll result left the future of the country in the balance as Cameron, Clegg and Labour negotiators bartered behind closed doors over who would form the next government.

I am not sticking my neck out very far when I forecast that none of them will form the next government of Britain.

Meanwhile his decision to repeatedly state that the party with the largest number of seats should form the next government is set to undermine the legitimacy of any minority Labour government should we see one next month.

The PNC says it will transform the fundamentals of the economy with special focus on three pillars if elected to form the next government.

If the British economy turns sharply downwards in the next three years, Cameron has a real chance of forming a government around 2009.

As people with lives and interests outside of politics start thinking about who should form the next government, the purple barmy army aren't going to get much of -LSB-...]

The trouble is they have no chance of forming a Government this side of the next Ice Age - so no VINCE.

Despite this, it was the Conservatives who formed the next government with a majority of 17 seats.

The important figures for the Conservatives next year will be firstly the voting intention figures — the Conservatives need a substantial lead to have any chance whatsover of forming a government and if David Cameron wants to keep the support of his party he needs to show he has the potential to deliver.

Whilst David Cameron may become Prime Minister next year with an overall Conservative majority in the Commons, any administration he forms will start its life as a minority government in the House of Lords.

The weakness of the offer on the NHS is one reason why it isn't even clear that Labour will form or lead the next government, or have a majority large enough to push through the changes we want.

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.

«We need a strong opposition which believes it can form the next government and I'm afraid nobody thinks Jeremy Corbyn is going to be the prime minister of our country.»

With the party looking to form a government next May this was the last chance for the usual retinue of lobbyists and influence peddlers to ply their trade to shadow ministers who just might be making actual decisions in a few months» time.

«As much as I respect you as a man of principle, I do not believe you have the capacity to shape the answers our country is demanding and I believe that if we are to form the next Government, a change of leadership is essential.

Pupils in England who get poor results in their Sats tests at the end of primary school will face a resit in secondary school if the Conservatives form the next government.

In the first few years of the alliance, Liberals and Social Democrats were very confident it would be a success, David Steel even suggesting that Alliance could form the next government.

While winning economic credibility should remain a Labour priority and I've written in the current Progress magazine on how this might be done, it may be that a perceived dearth of authenticity, rather than economic credibility, is the most immediate cause of a heightened risk that Labour will not form the next government.

Which means reversing loss of support to new insurgents could be vital to determining whether Labour forms the next government.

«I can confirm today that an approach has been made by Plaid Cymru for preliminary discussions about the possible form of the next Assembly government.