Sentences with phrase «power after the general elections»

She also suggested that 10,000 new police officers would be paid # 30 - per - year if Labour gain power after the General Election.

Speaking at the NASUWT union conference in Cardiff, Mr Hunt promised a «new deal» for teachers and a more teacher - friendly approach if Labour got into power after the general election.

Not exact matches

Asquith's controversial social welfare programme and Lords reform, which restricted the legislative power of the House of Lords, came after the Upper House successfully blocked the «people's budget», forcing a general election.

We can only hope that Pakistan's democratization process will move forward; and civilian leaders who assume power after the forthcoming general elections will act as pragmatically as Jinnah and show the due political resolve to institutionalize his secular, progressive ideals of statehood.

According to him, the positive responses he gave and developments after the December 7 general election when he called the winner, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo, to concede defeat to him, even before the Electoral Commission (EC) announced the results of the presidential election, constituted a major reason the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) requested him to participate in two missions to Banjul, The Gambia to get Yahya Jammeh to accept the will of the Gambian people and hand over power to Mr Adama Barrow, but which he refused.

The venue was the scene of Labour's 1997 general election party which saw the party elevated back to power after 18 years in the political wilderness.

The damning condemnation of the parties comes on the day that Labour campaign chief, Lord Mandelson, clashed with journalists who tried to pin him down on which spending programmes will be reigned in or scrapped if the party is still in power after the 6 May general election.

It is an ineluctable fact: poll after poll has shown that most Britons are strongly against the expansion of the EU's power - and an even greater majority demand the referendum promised by all three main parties in their manifestos at the last General Election.

The most recent occasion when the monarch has had to exercise these powers was in February 1974, when Edward Heath resigned from the position of prime minister after failing to win an overall majority at the General Election or to negotiate a coalition.

The crucial when and how details on the renegotiations — and the referendum is dependent on the Conservatives being in power after the next general election − will not begin for some time and he can focus on the economy, the Maghreb terrorist threat, gay marriage and other issues requiring his attention.

What's more, the lunatic fringe of politicians and their apple - polishers should note that the fact that they are seeking power, or are aiming to cling onto power, does not give them an audacity to engage in electoral violence, before, during and after the 2016 general elections.

Britain's future status as a nuclear power was one of three issues on which the coalition's two parties «agreed to disagree» after the general election.

The review of counter-terrorism powers was set up immediately after the general election, with a specific remit to look urgently at the future of control orders and the wider matter of counter-terror measures and programmes.

After the 2005 General Election the 1922 committee investigated the matter and concluded that it should have been referred to the Ethics and Integrity Committee, that there was a denial of natural justice to Howard Flight and that the Chief Whip did not have the power to conclude that Howard Flight had brought the party into disrepute and withdraw the whip.

Less than three weeks after the election, a passage appeared in a New York Times editorial urging Cuomo to «hand over the power to investigate public corruption in Albany to the new attorney general, Eric Schneiderman.»

The wild card is the Independent Democratic Conference, led by pro-charter senator Jeff Klein, who has said he'll end his power - sharing deal with the Republicans and join the regular Democrats after the general election.

Alex Salmond will make Scottish devolution a key battleground in the general election after Labour resisted pressure to bring forward legislation to strengthen Holyrood's powers.

More than two - fifths, 42 %, supported a coalition after the next general election to keep the Conservatives out of power, but 36 % rejected the prospect.

The campaign forms part of the NDC's strategies toward reorganizing its support base and re-energise party faithful as it plans to recapture power in the next general elections to be held in 2020 after suffering a humiliating defeat in the general elections held on December 7, 2016 at the hands of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP).

President John Mahama of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) will be hand over power to Nana Akufo - Addo Addo of the New Patriotic Party on January 7, 2017 after losing the December 7 general elections.

In a comment made in a speech on the eve of the 2017 General Election and less than a week after the London Bridge attack, she vowed to beef up counter-terror powers by restricting «the freedom and the movements of terrorist suspects when we have enough evidence to know they present a threat, but not enough evidence to prosecute them in full in court... And if human rights laws stop us from doing it, we will change those laws so we can do it.»