Sentences with phrase «of the next parliament if»

Not exact matches

Even if the 40 percent of voters that supported former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi still stick with his center - left party, chances are that the next Italian parliament will be even more divided, making implementation of much needed reforms increasingly difficult.

Even if the Government were to implement Labour's growth plan now, given the failure of the last three years it would not avoid the need for cuts in departmental spending in the next Parliament.

Cameron promised to maintain the ring - fencing of the NHS budget into the next parliament, if he was elected prime minister.

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.

Should the UK 2015 election extend to Scotland (still part of the UK in 2015); and if so, for how long will those Scottish MPs serve in the next Parliament?

Who knows, if the politicians see that such positions are a vote winner, we may find that Nick Clegg is inspired to fight a little harder for rights and liberties in this parliament... and that Secretary of State Sadiq Khan is emboldened to defend and extend human rights in the next.

This could lead to «god» organisation that determines in effect the politics of the next parliament i.e. if we recognize demographic X then they're likely to tend towards Y. Groups that are not given a quota might feel they are not part of the democratic process.

A lot of work has gone on under the radar to establish how Boris» next move should be choreographed — if he decides to return to parliament.

In the urgent question brought by Sir Gerald Kaufman, who will be the father of the House in the next parliament if he is re-elected, Hague was told he was being «grubby» and «nauseous».

On Wednesday, the former head of the British army warned David Cameron that he will be in breach of an undertaking he gave to service chiefs in 2010 if he fails to increase defence spending in real terms in the next parliament.

The French president, François Hollande, has warned that Europe risks «regression and paralysis» if Eurosceptics and nationalists gain the upper hand in next year's European parliament elections, as an opinion poll for the first time put the anti-immigrant National Front (NF) well ahead of his country's mainstream parties.

It would be quite something if Lee Martin - our candidate pictured below with David Cameron and (right) Cllr Peter Wood (Wearside Chairman) is the first declared MP of the next Parliament.

He said: «We would hold an in - out referendum if there was a further transfer of powers - a prospect we believe is possible, but unlikely in the next Parliament.

Queen Elizabeth II is not about to repeat Charles I's disastrous dismissal of the short parliament, 370 years ago today, but she may have to tread carefully in the next few weeks if the crown is not to be dragged into another toxic argument about who has the right to run Britain.

The IFS said that the Conservative plans to get rid of «the bulk» of the deficit over the course of the next parliament will involve the biggest spending cuts since the second world war, while Labour and Lib Dem plans will result in deeper cuts that at any time since the 1970s.

«We know they plan to get rid of a million public sector jobs and cut the value of public sector pay every year in the next parliament if they win the election.

So this leaves the party, grimly perhaps, backing him, deciphering the code behind his repeated claim that the structural defect will only be gone if the current course of action (their coalition with the Tories) continues in to the next parliament.

Under the terms of the Fixed - term Parliaments Act 2011, the period between one general election and the next is fixed at 5 years, unless the Commons passes a motion of no confidence in the Government sooner than that, or if the House of Commons, with the support of at least two thirds of its members, resolves that a general election should take place sooner.

Internal surveys were reported to have shown that the joint list would win more than 50 seats in the upcoming elections, a total unheard of by a single party in decades, and one that if realized would virtually guarantee Netanyahu continuing as prime minister in the next parliament, no matter which candidates ran and no matter which alliances were formed against him.

Mr Osborne said if spending reductions are made in the next spending review period at the same rate as took place in this parliament, welfare savings of # 10 billion will have to be made.

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.

However, if the chancellor can succeed in nudging commentators and taxpayers into the habit of referring to income tax and NICs as one and the same thing, then he will perhaps have laid the groundwork towards a Nigel Lawson - style reforming Budget in the future - possibly in the next parliament.

And if there is no overall majority, will the rump of Liberal Democrats who remain in the next Parliament prefer to stick with Mr Cameron or to take their chance with Mr Miliband?

«We are already in the third year of the Parliament, so if a House business committee is not established before the next Queen's Speech, the coalition agreement will not have been complied with.

Starting now and right across the next Parliament every one of the 50,000 most chaotic families will be part of a family intervention project — with clear rules, and clear punishments if they don't stick to them.

Looking at the numbers I suspect what Cameron has done is see what the talent pool he'll have to draw on if he wins looks like, reckons (quite reasonably in my opinion) that by the end of the next Parliament at least 35 of his ministerial posts will be filled by a woman, and sees no harm in letting other people know that.

Asked if Mr Cameron could see his former Eton schoolmate make a comeback as a Member of Parliament at the next election, he replied:

Ending the Commons stages of Lords reform by the autumn of next year is designed to ensure that the parliament act can be used to force the reforms through, if peers object, by the time of the 2015 general election.

In a major blow, the Lords voted 335 to 244 in favour of an amendment which would hand parliament the power to decide what happens next if MPs reject the deal she strikes with the EU.

Lord Mandelson, the business secretary, said at a Labour press conference: «The IFS figures relate to 2016 - 17, beyond the life of the next parliament for which the general election is being held now.

Cameron was also asked if he could promise to stick to his pledge to retain defence spending at 2 % of GDP in the next parliament, on a trip that saw him pay a farewell visit to Camp Bastion in Afghanistan and the RAF base at Akrotiri in Cyprus where Tornados that have been bombing in Iraq are based.

Some of this might be achievable during this parliament, in collaboration with the Liberal Democrats but Cameron will also make it clear that much will only be possible if the Conservatives can win the next election and govern on their own.

It smacked of a 35 percent strategy: a timid desire to play it safe politically - to score on «open goal» policy issues such as the NHS - in the knowledge that due to an electoral quirk, Labour will win a majority in the next Parliament if it breaks the 35 percent threshold.

If the economy continues to recover, and the Tories succeed in getting to grips with the country's debt mountain, they hope to «go further» by the end of the next parliament, either by offering more money in tax reductions, or increasing the numbers of people who qualify for them or both.

Well, if that were to happen, then of course we can return to this subject in a manifesto for the parliament after the next one.

Which is a reminder that it's possible that none of his plans may be effected, since we don't know what parts of them Nick Clegg's party would agree to in this Parliament, if any, and there's no guarantee of a Conservative Government in the next one.

However, Miliband said Labour would not respond to the Ukip surge by offering a guarantee of an in - out referendum on EU membership in the next parliament if elected.

Replying to Labour criticism of Conservative plans to recognise marriage in the tax system, Philip Hammond, the shadow work and pensions secretary, told Channel 4 News: «What we have said, and we've clarified that this afternoon just so there shouldn't be any confusion, we are absolutely committed to introducing a recognition of marriage in the tax system during the course of the next parliament, if we win the election.»

Ed Miliband asked David Cameron if he would be voting yes or no in the referendum set to take place in the early part of the next parliament, as promised by the PM if the Conservatives won the general election expected in 2015.

Graham Allen, who was Labour chairman of the Commons Political and Constitutional Reform Committee in the last parliament, said MPs should be recalled next Monday, if no party wins a majority to discuss the election outcome — including the electoral system.

Recently, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) warned staff that schools were due to face the first real - term cuts since the 1990s, with cuts of up to eight per cent in the next Parliament.

Given what he knows about National Insurance and pension costs, he thinks that the right figure for a real - terms cut in funding over the life of the next Parliament from the IFS forecasts is closer to 12 than to seven per cent.

Bob Neill, the Conservative chair of the House of Commons» justice committee, said that he hoped, if the PM wins the election, then the legislation could be reintroduced «as a matter of priority» in the next Parliament.

According to relevant Elections Law, in case of vacancy, if for example, one of the elected Members of the Parliament were appointed as Attorney General of the Republic, the next in line was of the same party in the electoral district and is automatically «elected» as a Member of the House of Representatives.