Sentences with phrase «out of the coalition deal»

The 55 per cent threshold means that Prime Minister Cameron could survive at the head of a minority Conservative government even if the Lib Dems pulled out of the coalition deal.

Not exact matches

The priority the government gives to different reforms set out in the coalition deal, the extent to which it implements them, and the personnel involved promise a welter of competing pressures that Merkel will need all her political skill to balance.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

Clegg: if I felt changing strategy, changing leaders, pulling out of coalition... wld deal with challenges I wouldn't hesitate to advocate it

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.

Diaz, the entire Bronx Council delegation, along with members of the Northwest Bronx Comnunity and Clergy Coalition and the city's biggest retail workers union, fought for living wage jobs as part of a Community Benefits agreement with the developer, the Related Companies, but a deal couldn't be worked out.

That would almost certainly be a minority government — particularly now Miliband has completely ruled out entering a coalition with the SNP or, indeed, doing any kind of deal with the party whatsoever.

After weeks of questions about a Labour - SNP deal, Ed Miliband has formally ruled out a post-election coalition with Nicola Sturgeon's party.

Liberal Democrat MP David Laws was at the heart of talks with the Conservatives and Labour as a Coalition Government deal was thrashed out against the clock in May.

The Liberal Democrats emerged from a meeting of their Parliamentary party and Federal Executive to announce that the coalition deal had been «approved overwhelmingly» shortly after midnight on 12 May, and later the same day the two parties published the Conservative — Liberal Democrat coalition agreement setting out the terms of their deal.

Excluding the out come of the Scottish referndum, Ed will have to get around the choice for mayor of London, Diane Abbott has proved a lose cannon for him, his choice Sadiq Khan is the least popular, with David Lammy and Christian Wolmar, being the front runners, I don't think Doreen Lawrence a brave lady now in the lords will stand and then Ed will, if the Tories form another coalition govt have to deal with an EU referndum in 2017 ′, can he argue the case to stay in Europe when his main founder Len Mkluisky and his policy advisor Jon Cruddas are anti the EU,

The speculation was as detailed as it was impossible to confirm: exploratory talks had already been had with Nick Clegg over the possibility of a post-election deal; Clegg had delivered what the plotters wanted to hear: he could work with Labour, but not with Brown; in the event that Labour came third in the poll of votes, but with enough seats to form a coalition government and keep the Tories out, Brown would have to go — and quickly.

With the Tories coming out as the biggest party in terms of votes and seats, the assumption from those backing Mr Cameron to stay in Number 10 is that «if the seats are there,» the Liberal Democrats will do another deal with Cameron and we'll have coalition 2.0.

I think that the public felt the thing had come out of the blue as the result of some arrangement between the coalition partners and they didn't see why AV was such a big deal.

However, as the coalition points out, saying nothing communicates a great deal to children — that you may be insensitive to their needs (not realizing that they are confused and struggling), uncaring about this important event in their lives, disapproving of conversations around death, and other negative messages.

Now that the Coalition has come out in favour of rooftop (domestic) solar — confirming its intention to maintain the Small - Scale Renewable Scheme (SRES)-- Labor's rejection of any deal involving cuts to the LRET can be seen for what it is: an effort to protect the wind industry, in which it holds a financial interest.

A petition filed by the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society on behalf of the «Whales Need US» coalition and Species Survival Network, urges Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar to invoke U.S. conservation legislation known as the Pelly Amendment against Iceland, a move that could deal a deathly blow to Iceland's out - of - control whaling industry.