Sentences with phrase «party in a hung parliament»

It suggests the Tories would remain the largest party in a hung parliament, losing just two seats to end up with 301.

«I absolutely believe that if we'd have had that election that Gordon Brown would no longer have been prime minister and that the Conservatives would have been the largest party in a hung parliament.»

The Conservatives are on course to be the largest party in a hung parliament, according to an analysis of online search terms.

Well, the only situation where a Lib / Lab coalition would be democratically acceptable after the next election would be one where Labour emerges as the largest party in a hung parliament or has an extremely small majority.

If Labour ends up the largest party in a hung parliament there's plenty of material for a Lib / Lab pact.

He has won two Scottish elections, the first as the largest party in a hung parliament and the second in 2011 with an overall majority, which, under the proportional voting system introduced after the 1998 devolution settlement, was forecast as highly improbable.

Ed Miliband insists he is aiming for an overall majority, while some recent reports have suggested Labour are planning for a minority government if they are the largest party in a hung parliament.

David Cameron is on course to lead the biggest party in a hung Parliament after the General Election -LSB--RSB-

For some time this website has pointed out that, despite the relentless negativity of the right - leaning press, Labour is on course to win the next election, albeit probably as the largest party in a hung parliament.

Its deadly seriousness is underlined by Nick Clegg's statement that he would probably allow the largest party in a hung parliament to form a government, even if it were the Tories.

A Guardian / ICM poll today indicates that Cameron would lead the largest party in a hung parliament.

Tonight's remarkable exit poll figures predicts the Conservatives will be the largest party in a hung parliament, with 316 seats to Labour's 239.

But an ICM poll put the Tory lead at just 4 per cent, suggesting Labour is on course to become the largest party in a hung parliament.

By the time the GE came around Farage had blown what had made UKIP successful chasing BNP votes, and pushed Tory voters back... especially with the worry about Labour being the biggest party in a hung parliament and reliant on an authoritarian Sturgeon to get them into govt.

The Liberal Democrats could be the deciding party in a hung parliament.

If Labour loses so badly in London and the south, it will struggle to remain as the largest party in a hung parliament.

The threat came as Angela Eagle, Labour's shadow leader of the Commons, revealed it was prepared to speak to any other party in a hung Parliament — including the SNP — to «try to build a majority».

Not exact matches

A general election on March 4 resulted in a hung parliament in which no one party or coalition of parties won enough of the vote to govern alone.

In the event of a hung parliament, the Italian constitution specifies no time limit for parties to reach an agreement or call a fresh election.

Italian stocks fell at the start of this morning's trading, after populist parties won almost half the vote in Italy's Sunday elections, and early results suggested the country is heading for a hung parliament due to no party or coalition of parties meeting the 40 % threshold for stable governance.

«For sure, the priorities are immigration, the control of borders, of Europe, (the issue of) cultural identities and the understanding of how the Italian society should move ahead in a globalized world,» Terzi di Sant «Agata said, following the Italian election result which pointed to a hung parliament where no one party or coalition gained a majority of the vote that would allow it to govern alone.

«There's been a lot of discussion on the fringe of this conference about our party's next steps; about our relationship with the other parties; and about what we should do in the event of another hung parliament,» he said.

It's called a hung parliament because no party won a majority of seats in the House of Commons.

In a hung Parliament, who would you go into coalition with?A coalition between the Greens and the Labour Party might be a good idea.

What these three countries have in common is not just that the same leader has been re-elected, but that in their recent elections Scotland, Wales and the Republic of Ireland all saw the return of a hung parliament in which no party gained an overall majority.

For a party which is now openly plotting to take advantage of another hung parliament by securing five more years of Lib Dems in power, it makes complete sense.

The current endeavor by Tory backbenchers to repeal the Act is based on a simple calculation — most forecasts predict that the 2015 general elections will result in another hung Parliament, in which the joint seat share of the two dominant parties, Labour and the Conservatives, will be eroded even further.

It is therefore vital that a truly meaningful vote should be held within the time frame of the article 50 negotiations and not be left to verbal assurances — not least because there is no guarantee who will be leading the Conservative party by next autumn, nor indeed where the balance of power might be in any future government or hung parliament.

But there is uncertainty associated with all the forecasts and some forecasters are trying to estimate the extent of that uncertainty, which in turn can be used to calculate probabilities of particular events (hung parliament, largest party, etc..)

The details of the stillborn coalition negotiations between the two centre - left parties comes as senior figures in both parties start building bridges ahead of what is expected to be another hung parliament in 2015.

Of course a successor will lead in the same nightmarish context of a hung parliament, but he or she will not have been culpable for the last election and will have every intention of leading the party into the next one.

In 2015, they suggested an altogether different outcome, a hung parliament in which the Scottish National Party would hold the balance of poweIn 2015, they suggested an altogether different outcome, a hung parliament in which the Scottish National Party would hold the balance of powein which the Scottish National Party would hold the balance of power.

In a hung parliament the Labour leadership, with other parties, has an opportunity to remove all political space for the cornered prime minister.

Mr Cable admitted it would be «difficult to work with the Conservatives or Labour» in the event of a hung Parliament, but added that it was the Liberal Democrat's mindset to show «we can work with other parties in the national interest».

And now we have a more explicit outlining of an emerging new Tory constitutional doctrine in an extraordinary Guardian report on Tuesday — based on anonymous briefings from «senior shadow Cabinet members» — that the Conservatives intend to mount a partisan attack on existing constitutional conventions, and the Cabinet Secretary's protocols for handling a hung Parliament, even though a primary motivation for these has been to protect the Monarchy from being dragged into party political controversy.

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 parliaparty 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 parliaParty, should the Alternative Vote deliver another hung parliament.

But «hung Parliaments» where no party has a majority have occurred in 1974 and 1977 - 79, and now in 2010.

The audience was unimpressed and warned him to treat voters with enough intelligence to deserve answers on which parties he would or would not work with in a hung parliament.

Meanwhile, smaller parties such as the Greens, the Liberal Democrats, the UK Independence Party (UKIP) and the Scottish National Party (SNP) could hold the balance of power in a hung parliament after May 2015.

If the Conservatives were merely the biggest party in rump UK, but lacked a majority — i.e. rump UK would also have a hung parliament — the Liberal Democrats could switch sides after the departure of the Scots, and remain in power.

More importantly, even if I strip out UKIP and re-run the election projections based on the party only polling the 3 per cent or so it achieved in 2010 we're still on course for a hung Parliament.

That would be good enough to save some 40 to 45 Lib Dem seats and give the party leverage in the event of a second hung parliament.

High - February 15th: Hedging their bets - A Guardian report that Clegg would rule himself out of a coalition in the event of a hung parliament was quickly rebutted, leaving the position clarified and enabling party activists to go about their jobs with the position clear in their heads.

Despite the perversities of the outcome, a real prospect of electoral reform will only come if the 2020 election again produces a hung parliament where minor parties may be in a position to press for reform.

In an interview with the Guardian, the MP for Hull West and Hessle said that when the Lib Dems came to talk to Labour in May 2010, just after the general election resulted in the first hung parliament in 36 years, he believed the two parties would form a coalitioIn an interview with the Guardian, the MP for Hull West and Hessle said that when the Lib Dems came to talk to Labour in May 2010, just after the general election resulted in the first hung parliament in 36 years, he believed the two parties would form a coalitioin May 2010, just after the general election resulted in the first hung parliament in 36 years, he believed the two parties would form a coalitioin the first hung parliament in 36 years, he believed the two parties would form a coalitioin 36 years, he believed the two parties would form a coalition.

It seeped into the public's consciousness, and was difficult to handle without insulting the intelligence of the electorate — because of course left - of - centre parties would at least talk to one another in the event of a hung parliament.

It not only deprived him of seats that are rightly his, it undermines any hope that Clegg will be able to carry his party into a second coalition with Cameron in a future hung parliament — a parliament which is now more likely because of the failure of boundary changes.

[32] Lib Dems state that they want «three - party politics» in the Commons; [144][145] the most realistic chance of power with first past the post is for the party to be the kingmakers in a hung parliament.

Elections fought under AV would either wildly increase the majority of the winning party (e.g. Labour in 1997, the Tories in the 1980s) or create hung parliaments by giving the balance of power to the third party.

Waste, penned by British playwright Harley Granville Barker in 1906 before being revised in 1926, is set against a hung parliament with the incumbent administration facing defeat at its upcoming Queen's Speech — while an expectant Tory party waits with bated breath to seize back control.