Sentences with phrase «one's parliamentary majority»

It had a huge parliamentary majority, the goodwill of the British people and an economic inheritance that could have paid for serious welfare reform.

The Canadian general election last week brought to power a new government with a comfortable parliamentary majority.

You can change a huge amount when you are in Number 10 with a working Parliamentary majority.

Her goal was to rack up an even bigger parliamentary majority in advance of Britain's move to leave the European Union, the biggest challenge the nation has faced in decades.

If we accept that Union citizenship can be removed by a national parliamentary majority of 51 % than we implicitly regard that citizenship as a contingent status of convenience, a discount card in the supermarket that is Europe, rather than a corollary of supranational belonging.

The breakaway «Islamist» AKP, first encouraged by the military in order to weaken Erbakan, won a landslide victory in 2002, becoming the first party in decades to win parliamentary majority.

«To tell you the truth, I didn't push it through because there was such a huge parliamentary majority for it I didn't anticipate that it was going to be controversial.

Politically it is crucial for the Tories that there is no opposition to the latest version of cuts, as this would show the blantant falsity of the claim that the Tories have a commanding parliamentary majority and that There Is No Alternative.

Then Nick Clegg's decision to form a coalition with the Conservatives so detoxified them — and contaminated the Lib Dems — that it allowed the bridgehead created by the collapse of Blairism to be consolidated into today's Conservative parliamentary majority.

Ed Miliband has been put on notice that Labour faces a major battle if it is to secure an overall parliamentary majority next year after the local elections showed that the party is struggling to achieve the sort of breakthrough that would signal a Westminster victory.

As long as elections produced single party parliamentary majorities, this posed no particular problems because government formation did not typically require complex coalition negotiations.

Currently, at the negotiation table in Brussels, May could use her narrow parliamentary majority as a bargaining tool, telling her international negotiating partners that she could never get a deal through Parliament without preferential access to the single market.

On 1 May Labour won its biggest parliamentary majority in history — an overall majority of 179 seats.

Hanging on in power by a thread through a delicate agreement with the DUP, the party must broaden its electoral appeal in order to achieve the healthy parliamentary majority it so dearly craves.

Since 1997, simple parliamentary majorities have been used to radically alter the constitutional make - up of the UK.

They also advised against skirt and blouse to ensure the NDC gets the needed Parliamentary majority to help the President pursue his good policies.

The party also wrestled close to 50 parliamentary seats to gain the most comfortable parliamentary majority since the second parliament of the Fourth Republic.

The 72 - year - old Akufo - Addo beat President John Mahama of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) by over one million votes to win the presidency at the third attempt while his party, the NPP snatched almost 50 of the NDC's seats to win an overwhelming parliamentary majority in the elections.

[1] It was the Liberal Party, a forerunner of today's Liberal Democrats, that was most interested in revision, as the first - past - the - post electoral system produced such disproportionate Parliamentary majorities out of mere electoral pluralities as to render third parties» situation hopeless.

Pensions minister Ros Altmann argued voters would be undermining their «democratically elected leaders» if they vote to quit the bloc, since pro-EU MPs enjoy a significant parliamentary majority.

This should allow the Prime Minister to secure the required two - thirds parliamentary majority comfortably.

What do you think of the view that Vernon Bogdanor and Anthony Barnett have both expressed, that the proposed 55 % rule is of no real consequence since any law embodying it could be repealed by a bare parliamentary majority anyway, restoring the status quo?

An analysis of the constituencies in North West England suggests neither the Conservatives or Labour can gain sufficient ground to win a wider parliamentary majority.

Even if it does better at the next election, there are not enough seats in Wales, Scotland and Northern England for Labour to secure a convincing parliamentary majority.

How much of a lead she will maintain and how much support she will lose will be crucial to her plan of realising an enlarged parliamentary majority.

Although European elections will not change the national political landscape, where Labour enjoys a nine - seat parliamentary majority (out of 69), national issues predominate.

Instead, David Cameron's Conservative Party defied all predictions to win an outright parliamentary majority, securing 331 out of 650 seats.

Mr Blair may have one of the greatest parliamentary majorities this century, but he can not live up to Lord Jenkins's vision alone.

There is probably now a cross-party parliamentary majority for that — certainly for a multi-year transitional deal that could even become permanent.

The other two coalition partners, the Pasok socialists and the conservative New Democracy, have a sweeping parliamentary majority and do not need Karatzaferis's 16 votes.

With its worst electoral performance since 1918, the Labour vote fell by over 3,000,000 votes from 1979 and this accounted for both a national swing of almost 4 % towards the Conservatives and their larger parliamentary majority of 144 seats, even though the Conservative Party's total vote fell by almost 700,000.

The Africa Centre for Parliamentary Affairs (ACEPA) has urged the New Patriotic Party to use its newly acquired parliamentary majority to push through critical bills that will improve governance in the country.

A year later, he helped to broker the deal with the Democratic Unionist Party to boost her fragile Parliamentary majority.

There is an available parliamentary majority for a different Brexit, a much softer model that starts from the economically rational base of customs union and single market membership.

In a humiliating blow after he helped to deliver the first Tory parliamentary majority in 23 years, Shapps was demoted to the lesser role of minister of state at the Department for International Development.

Public opinion and a broad parliamentary majority endorsed these actions, agreeing that federal intervention was needed to improve conditions for Aborigines.

Cameron's plans will apply if he wins an overall parliamentary majority — with at least 326 seats — or if the Tories are substantially the biggest party in the House of Commons.

A Lib - Con coalition will look fine on paper because Clegg and Cameron would enjoy a healthy parliamentary majority.

Since 1997, by contrast, we have seen successive governments use a simple parliamentary majority to radically overhaul the structure of the judicial system; strip the office of Lord Chancellor of most of its historic authority; introduce fixed - term parliaments and devolve substantial legislative powers to selected parts of the United Kingdom.

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.

there are concerns that after losing a parliamentary majority her negotiating position will be weakened and

She ultimately lost her parliamentary majority but held on to power thanks to an agreement with a small Northern Irish party.

But there are concerns that after losing a parliamentary majority her negotiating position will be weakened and she will forced to take a softer approach.

Theresa May called a snap election, hoping to increase her parliamentary majority and her negotiating power with Brussels.

He added that the choices are «consistent with President Emmanuel Macron's strategy to maximize his chances of forming a parliamentary majority after the mid-June legislative elections.

This contrasts with cabinet members such as Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and Environment Secretary Michael Gove, who over the last week have suggested that the public sector pay cap ought to be axed following the shock general election result where the Conservatives lost their parliamentary majority.