Sentences with phrase «over parliament like»

In fact, Miliband had simply forgotten the brief passage about the deficit — the one addressing the issue that had hung over parliament like an ominous cloud for the previous four years.

Not exact matches

Like all E.U. law, the bill that passed Tuesday is a messy compromise hashed out over months of three - way negotiating between parliament, the Commission, and the member states.

However, cotton, like almonds, is highly reliant on irrigated water, making the sector vulnerable to drought and rising water prices as well as political stoushes, as is occurring currently in the Federal parliament over the next stage of the Murray Darling Basin irrigation plan.

Legal challenges to the government's consultation, concerns over the hybrid nature of the legislation (this means it takes much longer to work its way through parliament) and the coalition's decision to split the legislation into two parts are worrying interested spectators — like Labour's Eagle.

It is the EU that has a final veto over any policy proposed by the UK or Scotland; indeed, each of the remaining 27 member states (and even subordinate parliaments like the parliament of Wallonia) can block proposed changes to the status quo, and the status quo once Article 50 is triggered next week is a fixed negotiating period, which ends in 2019.

Like Iain, I noted the role of ideas, but for me, the key ones were Manchester School Liberalism (as propagated by the pamphlets, letters and speeches of the Anti-Corn Law League); the appeals to class conflict and religiosity (again, as exploited by the League); and Peel's own redefinition of Conservative ideology as a means to preserve traditional aristocratic control over Parliament.

«We've got over 250,000 more affordable homes - and here's a statistic he'll like: in the last Parliament we built more council houses than in 13 years of a Labour government,» he said.

Ed Miliband supports giving back more control to national parliaments, and for the UK this must include control over social legislation like working hours and agency workers.

Addressing lobby journalists over lunch in parliament's Churchill Room, George Osborne started as he meant to go on - with a pop at the weakness of the woman who he allegedly would like to see chopped up in bags in his freezer.

Over the next parliament disabled people as a group stand to lose # 9 billion in financial support and that doesn't even include the loss of local services like care and support, subsidised transport and respite services.

The prospect of John Prescott's maiden speech in the Lords hung menacingly over parliament today, like the raincloud which finally broke over Westminster in late afternoon.

The Bawku Central Member of Parliament, Mahama Ayariga, has sued the Akufo - Addo administration at the Supreme Court over the implementation of some of its key initiatives such as the Infrastructure for Poverty Eradication Programme (IPEP), Free Senior High School, Planting for Food and Jobs as well as the operations of existing agencies like the Microfinance and Small Loans Center (MASLOC)...

«As the Labour party begins to look back over this parliament, the route map of its own destruction laid behind it will become clear, like the vapour trail from a jumbo jet.

Before entering parliament this year as MP for Boston and Skegness, Matt Warman spent over a decade at the paper — including a lengthy stint as its technology editor during which time he interviewed the likes of Jeff Bezos and Sir Tim Berners Lee.

Less clear is the level of flexibility the Scottish parliament would have over things like income tax bands or tax rates.

To do this, it sounds like he had good Whitehall source, who was able to provide him with true information about the employment of thousands of illegal immigrants in Whitehall and one in parliament, an internal ministerial letter about the dangers of rising crime caused by the recession and a list of potential Labour rebel MPs over the anti terror laws.

I am responsible for the whip in this parliament and how we vote in this parliament, and so for instance over things like the equality regulations or whatever.

The Bawku Central Member of Parliament, Mahama Ayariga, has sued the Akufo - Addo administration at the Supreme Court over the implementation of some of its key initiatives such as the Infrastructure for Poverty Eradication Programme (IPEP), Free Senior High School, Planting for Food and Jobs as well as the operations of existing agencies like the Microfinance and Small Loans Center (MASLOC) and others.

«We are investing more than # 1.3 bn in recruitment over this Parliament and have recruited more trainees in key subjects like physics and maths than last year.»

The Scottish Parliament Building, a discordant ode to steel, oak and granite, and the streamlined neo-fortress of the Museum of Scotland are both comfortably embedded among precarious medieval buildings that teeter - like grey - stone Jenga towers over Old Town's cobblestone streets.

In Westminsterian governments (Australia, UK, Canada) whilst political bodies (the parliament, senate or House of Commons) can order investigations they do not conduct them, the investigation is handed over to actual investigators like judges, lawyers and police (oh crap, these are government employee's too, thankfully I'm not a paranoid nutbag).

Think about moments like Idle No More, when an Indigenous - led uprising across Canada took over intersections and shopping malls with round dances, brought ten thousand people to Parliament Hill and forced Indigenous issues to the front and centre of Canadian politics.