Sentences with phrase «opposition in parliament»

Almost immediately he was re-appointed to the Conservative front bench, now the opposition in Parliament.

The MoU was laid before before Parliament on Tuesday recommending to Parliament to ratify the agreement, but it was rejected by the opposition in Parliament.

High street «institution» HMV has gone into administration, prompting despair from the opposition in parliament.

A senior party source said: «This shows the impossible challenge Jeremy now faces in forming a full opposition in parliament, whether or not he can cling on as leader.»

Trade union funding is to be drastically curtailed by law, boundaries are to be altered, even money for research by the opposition in Parliament is to be cut.

She obviously thought that the absence of any functioning opposition in parliament gave her the breathing room to do a quick raid on people who would otherwise be thought of as core Tory supporters.

Your reviewer served as a Conservative Whip 1990 - 2001 but that was in opposition in a Parliament with a totally overwhelming Labour majority.

Labour is currently the Official Opposition in the Parliament of the United Kingdom, having won the second - largest number of seats in the 2017 general election.

This united front of public opposition to government plans gave a further substantial impetus to opposition in parliament.

And let me pay particular tribute to those parliamentary colleagues who stepped forward in the summer to fill the gaps in the shadow cabinet and ensure that Labour could function as an effective opposition in parliament.

There is a sense of deja - vu with events in Ukraine excepting that Western backing this time round lies with the pro-Western and nationalist opposition in parliament.

This can occur in two ways: either the PLP simply selects its own leader, thus commanding the largest opposition in parliament (nowadays dubbed the Hains option) or it forms a new party entirely, perhaps in combination with the Lib Dems, a longstanding ambition of many.

«We have not been able to proceed on Lords reform, frankly, because there is opposition in parliament and the opportunism of the Labour party,» he said.

Knowing that a new government treaty like the FTA or NAFTA for further Canada-U.S. integration would never survive the opposition in Parliament, «Proponents have moved underground to promote «deep integration.»

Not exact matches

They have also demanded a new vote on the budget for next year after the government approved the spending plan by not putting it though parliament, but holding the vote in an nearby chamber, with a high number of government supporters — something that the country's opposition deemed as «illegal.»

While approval is not a given since the ruling coalition government led by Abe's LDP does not have a majority in the upper house of parliament, most analysts do not foresee any problems given signs this week that main opposition parties will not block the nominations.

After returning to Serbia in late 2015 after 12 years in detention, Seselj led his party back into parliament last year as the strongest opposition force, and he now hopes for success in a presidential election due in April.

Poland's biggest political standoff in years began on Friday when opposition lawmakers objected to plans by the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party to curb media access to parliament, and blocked the plenary hall podium ahead of a budget vote.

Allegations of sexual abuse have ranged from a charge of rape by an activist in the opposition Labour Party by a senior party member, to unconfirmed details of serial «sex pests» on a list reportedly drafted by aides and researchers in parliament.

Only this January, following the threat from the opposition parties to form a coalition and wrest control of Parliament from the Conservatives, did the government unveil a $ 35 - billion stimulus package including $ 18 billion in infrastructure spending.

Also in the past two days, opposition leaders in the Ukrainian parliament have demanded impeachment proceedings against President Petro Poroshenko, who allegedly owned assorted assets through a British Virgin Islands holding company.

There is a chance that May's opposition could gain power in parliament, and influence a stronger relationship with Europe — i.e., a «soft Brexit,» in which the U.K. might remain in the free trade zone.

Kosovo's opposition lawmakers release a teargas canister inside the country's parliament in before a vote for an agreement to ratify or not a border demarcation deal signed in 2015 with Montenegro.

The Attorney General is also being replaced and that's going to create a further bump in the investigation,» Wong Chen, a member of Malaysia's parliament from an opposition party told CNBC on Wednesday.

Friday's opposition vote to defeat the Conservative government for «contempt of Parliament» was an exercise in self - delusion, testosterone and faulty logic that will surely result in Stephen Harper returning after the May 2 election as prime minister — and likely with a majority.

«We should be ready, if we don't have 100 percent participation and if Europe doesn't want to give us more money,» Christos Staikouras, a member of the Greek Parliament from the center - right New Democracy opposition party and its economic spokesman, said in an interview.

At that time I wrote: «Friday's opposition vote to defeat the Conservative government for «contempt of Parliament» was an exercise in self - delusion, testosterone and faulty logic that will surely result in Stephen Harper returning after the May 2 election as prime minister — and likely with a majority.

With Greece at boiling point following the adoption of yet more internationally mandated austerity measures in the wake of parliament's vote to slash 25,000 jobs in the public sector, opposition leaders said it was wrong for Schäuble to be visiting at all.

In January 2018, the opposition - led Venezuelan parliament invalidated the petro, calling it an illegal attempt to mortgage the country's oil reserves.

Instead of running ads, they would define Scheer more slowly, over time, with a series of forced choices in Parliament, through government motions, much as opposition parties usually seek to define governments (you'll note that «define» in Ottawa politics is almost always pejorative by implication) through clever use of their occasional opportunity to define a day's parliamentary debate through so - called «supply motions.»

The legislation containing the amendments, tabled in the Senate immediately following the government's announcement, is expected to pass quickly through the Canadian Parliament without opposition.

Opposition Leader Adrian Delia's declaration of assets to Parliament has revealed a substantial amount in loans, totalling up to $ 713,356.

Tom worked as regional policy advisor to the Leader of the Opposition in the South Australian Parliament before working at Elders Rural Services, one of Australia's largest agri - retailers, from 2006 - 2013.

In May, the opposition Congress Party succeeded in delaying the GST reform measure in Parliament, forcing the review process to start agaiIn May, the opposition Congress Party succeeded in delaying the GST reform measure in Parliament, forcing the review process to start agaiin delaying the GST reform measure in Parliament, forcing the review process to start agaiin Parliament, forcing the review process to start again.

Twice denied an opportunity to run for the leadership of the Wildrose Party, controversial Conservative Party Member of Parliament Rob Anders is still lurking in the shadows of the deflated Alberta conservative opposition party.

However, the chances of her party gaining significant support in the election tailed off when the Tokyo governor confirmed her reluctance to stand for parliament herself, increasing uncertainty about the opposition's strategy.

The prospect of a shake - up in the Japanese political landscape increased when the center - left Democratic party — previously the main opposition to the LDP — announced it would not field any candidates in the election, freeing its representatives in the Japanese parliament to seek nominations from Ms. Koike's party.

Puritanism was one of the most effective forces in colonial America in «mobilizing the general mood» and effectively organizing both ideas and actions in opposition to Crown and Parliament.21 Puritanism had consistently pointed to, preached, and attempted to live out the central values and beliefs that gave coherence and meaning to Puritan society.

In an escalated war of words between the ruling alliance and the opposition on the now scrapped project of Shaktiman Mega Food Park, the Union minister for food processing industries Harsimrat Kaur Badal made a statement in Parliament refuting the charges of scrapping the projecIn an escalated war of words between the ruling alliance and the opposition on the now scrapped project of Shaktiman Mega Food Park, the Union minister for food processing industries Harsimrat Kaur Badal made a statement in Parliament refuting the charges of scrapping the projecin Parliament refuting the charges of scrapping the project.

I first started feeling disappointed in the man after i saw television footage of him addressing opposition members on the floor of Parliament.

The opposition wants to see a cap on earnings from second jobs in the next parliament, as well as a ban on MPs taking on new paid directorships and consultancies.

However, after the 2008 elections, the party went into opposition with a minority in Parliament.

Under this Fourth Republic, we have been lucky to have managed our differences so well that despite the high profiled bitter contest of 1998 in Sunyani, Candidate J.A Kufuor who emerged as our flagbearer courted the support of other opposition parties to win the 2000 first and second round elections to become the second President of the Fourth Republic with an appreciated votes at the presidential level for the party and increased seats in Parliament that we occupied the Majority side of Parliament.

Ruling party and opposition Turkish lawmakers on Monday exchanged punches and kicks and hurled water bottles at each other as a new mass brawl erupted in parliament over changes to the constitution, television broadcasts showed.

Indeed the Northern Peoples Party's leader Chief Dombo's action showed great magnanimity towards NOT Busia, but the building of a strong opposition to Nkrumah and his CPP who were having a field's day at elections since 1951 and also in Parliament.

Inside the Parliament, the second opposition party (Save Romania Party - about 9 % in both Chambers) tried to fight adopting these changes in an unusual way, as described in this article:

It is far from obvious why Parliament should have indulged in his crotchets one eccentric backbencher in opposition to the Government of the day.

Unless and until Labour achieves some sort of coherence, it is a peculiarity of this parliament that opposition to a government with a truly precarious majority, arises in the oddest places: powerful individual performers, such as Keir Starmer and Angela Eagle, or dynamic parliamentary committees, such as the Women's Committee, chaired by Maria Miller.

Serious opposition to the austerity consensus is scarcely to be seen in Parliament.

In this way, the legislative advantages of ruling parties, which enjoy far more sticks and carrots to enforce discipline than opposition parties, helps to explain the failure of the Kenyan parliament to defend democracy.