Still, as polling day approached, Lord Falconer, the Labour peer charged by Miliband with preparing the party for the transition to government, was working on three
possible electoral outcomes — all three involving a hung parliament.
Not exact matches
«What I'm saying here is pointing at a very, very irrational
possible outcome of our potty
electoral system, which is that a party that has spectacularly lost the election because fewer people are voting for it than any other party, could nonetheless according to constitutional tradition and convention still lay claim to providing the prime minister of the country.»
To prepare the ground for a referendum on
electoral reform the various
possible questions and
outcomes need to be investigated.
The Liberal Democrat leader said that the party had examined «every
possible outcome» but warned that any alliance would be conditional on support for
electoral reform.