Sentences with phrase «second coalition with»

ToryDiary: Party members want a say in any decision about a second Coalition with the Liberal Democrats in 2015

Paddy Ashdown has urged his restive party to prepare for the possibility of a second coalition with the Tories, saying the Conservatives have proved surprisingly good and trustworthy partners for the Liberal Democrats in government.

After leading the party through the second Holyrood elections in 2003 Elections, again winning 17 MSPs but with a higher share of the vote, he led the party into a second coalition with Labour.

There are three outcomes that should be playing on his mind: a second coalition with the Conservatives, a new coalition with Labour, and a return to opposition.

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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.

Not exact matches

A second «coalition of the willing,» the term used to describe allies in the second U.S. war with Iraq, may be forming to take on Iran more directly, and the roster looks to include Saudi Arabia, U.A.E, Israel, and the United States.

The centre - left Social Democrats (SPD), Merkel's current coalition partners who were the second - biggest party in the election, have ruled out a repeat of an alliance with her conservatives, who won the vote but were left with fewer seats.

Coalition Executive Director of the STEM Education Coalition James Brown delivered a speech at the Second Arkansas STEM Summit about STEM learning pathways in line with the summit's theme of «Spotlighting STEM.»

Now that Samaras has failed to create a government, the mandate goes to Alexis Tsipras, the 38 - year - old head of the Radical Left Coalition, or Syriza, who came in second place with 16.78 percent and 52 seats.

Speaking on Saturday, Hassan Omar, the interior minister, said Omar Elmi Khaireh, the opposition coalition (USN) candidate, came second, with seven percent, or 9,400 of the 133,356 votes cast.

At 1:30 p.m., Crowley holds a roundtable discussion with Jukay Hsu, founder and CEO of the Coalition for Queens, to discuss innovation and 21st century jobs, 47 - 10 Austell Place, second floor, Queens.

The manifesto is carefully calibrated not only to dodge the hostages to fortune of 2010, but also to offer plenty of scope for the Lib Dems to cut a deal with whichever party, Labour or Conservatives, are in a position to offer a second coalition.

In the interview Clegg also suggested that any «coalition of the losers» formed by the second largest party would lack «legitimacy» and he declared his intention to speak exclusively to the largest party first and only negotiate with the second largest party if talks with the first failed.

Mayor of London pours scorn on coalition plans to replace House of Lords with elected second chamber

The collapse of coalition plans for an elected second chamber — with formal last rites likely to delivered next week by a rueful Nick Clegg — is triggering another bout of speculation about the survival of the coalition.

He added that this is the second time Bafarawa is receiving such massive support across the country, saying last month, a group of PDP supporters under the auspices of Northern Youths Coalitions Alliance met in Kaduna and called on him to openly declare or they will match to his house with two million people to put pressure on him to run,» the source stated.

The main vote on the second reading of the bill will pass because Ed Miliband, who supports reform of the upper house, has instructed Labour MPs to vote with the coalition.

Yet the Coalition is preparing to replace that House with a new second chamber elected by means of regional party lists.

«Yet the Coalition is preparing to replace that House with a new second chamber elected by means of regional party lists» Factually untrue, Tories hate closed list PR even more than Lib Dems do, the plan is, and always was, for elections to be run using STV (also known as the British Proportional System, as used for the Australian Senate).

The leaders of the state Senate's majority coalition met for roughly an hour with Gov. Andrew Cuomo Monday morning, but Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was no where to be found on the second floor of the Capitol.

And Cabinet Secretaries and the office have been a steadying and guiding hand with governments under pressure, such as Churchill's last, Wilson's second and Major and then Cameron's Coalition government.

The coalition parties took first and second place in the final poll of the general election at Thirsk and Malton, with Labour coming a disappointing third.

«Even if the senator joined later, especially to ensure his second term election victory, what about his deputy, Prince Eze Madumere, the state chairman of the party, Chief Hillary Eke and others who joined the party the same time with him and who are currently part of the coalition?»

Second, the Green Party may well benefit from a leakage of support from the Liberal Democrats because of their partnering in coalition with the Conservatives.

All three Democratic incumbents are running for a second term and are top targets for Senate Republicans, who are trying to maintain control of the chamber after the Independent Democratic Conference announced it would end its majority coalition agreement with the GOP.

Having met with Iraqi prime minister Nouri al - Maliki in Baghdad the day before Mr Hutton travelled to the country's second city, Basra, where British troops have been stationed since coalition forces ousted Saddam Hussein in 2003.

With the number required for an outright majority falling to 301 in the next parliament, the revised figures based on the 2010 general election result would see the Tories slipping to 291 seats - prompting the need for a second coalition government.

The easing of the planning process for extensions and other work was feted as a rebooting of the coalition with a new growth - orientated approach to the second half of term.

Coalition blues We're going to be going into the next election saying «coalition's a terrible thing, we want to have an overall majority», but actually we want to stand on our record of what's happened over the last five years, so it's going to be slightly paradoxical in that way — the debate on the good or ills of coalition... I have to say both at the time, and particularly now with hindsight, I think we should've had a second electionCoalition blues We're going to be going into the next election saying «coalition's a terrible thing, we want to have an overall majority», but actually we want to stand on our record of what's happened over the last five years, so it's going to be slightly paradoxical in that way — the debate on the good or ills of coalition... I have to say both at the time, and particularly now with hindsight, I think we should've had a second electioncoalition's a terrible thing, we want to have an overall majority», but actually we want to stand on our record of what's happened over the last five years, so it's going to be slightly paradoxical in that way — the debate on the good or ills of coalition... I have to say both at the time, and particularly now with hindsight, I think we should've had a second electioncoalition... I have to say both at the time, and particularly now with hindsight, I think we should've had a second election in 2010.

Unlike Tim Montgomerie, I don't believe that the formation of the Coalition was a mistake, for one reason: if the Liberal Democrats had forced a second election, David Cameron wouldn't have won it on present boundaries (any more than he won that of May 2010); and if they hadn't forced such an election, they would simply have joined with Labour to vote down radical Tory legisaltion in any event.

The Cabinet Office did not want to comment, but officials pointed out that the coalition agreement states that until Lords reform passes: «Lords appointments will be made with the objective of creating a second chamber reflective of the share of the vote secured by the political parties in the last general election.»

While it is widely assumed that Clegg and some of his colleagues, like Alexander and Laws, would be putting the Conservatives second on an STV ballot paper, it is clear that activists and supporters, by a margin of 2 to 1, would rather see the Lib Dems in coalition with Labour.

A coalition of SEIU and GNYHA came in second with nearly $ 7 million in spending.

The the coalition, along with two other states, also filed a second court brief opposing the state of Texas's challenge to federal guidance allowing transgender students to use facilities consistent with their gender identity.

The coalition of activists and members of the Democratic and Working Families parties launched a second website, Smart Vote NY, urging people with second homes in swing districts to register to vote there.

Despite the fact that the European elections were the almost perfect second - order elections — with the coalition divided over Europe, European elections scheduled one year before general elections, and low turnout — and the two «UKIP MPs» were nothing more than rebranded Tory MPs, most of the British media and pundits enthusiastically bought into Nigel Farage's «Purple Revolution».

The Coalition Agreement said that pending reform of the Lords «appointments will be made with the objective of creating a second chamber that is reflective of the share of the vote secured by the political parties in the last general election».

Now, a new survey by ConservativeHome, has found that 55 per cent of Tory members are open to a «non-aggression pact» between the coalition partners in seats where they are first and second - placed, with 11 per cent describing such an agreement as «ideal».

[71] In his first address outside 10 Downing Street, he announced his intention to form a coalition government, the first since the Second World War, with the Liberal Democrats.

The second is whether the Conservative Party should try to prolong the coalition with the Liberal Democrats after the next election (and work to that end before it).

David Cameron last night won strong support from his newly elected MPs for his offer to the Liberal Democrats to form the first coalition since the second world war with a referendum on electoral reform.

• Clegg said he had «no idea» whether his aide, Polly Mackenzie, had drawn up a list of policies that the Lib Dems wanted to negotiate with the Conservatives for the second half of the coalition.

If the Lib Dems succeed in their aim of being the pivotal party and end up in coalition with the Conservatives for the second time, trust between the two parties will probably be damaged as a result of this leak.

Officials with Local 371 and the Public Employees Federation, the state's second - largest public labor union, said they are forming a coalition to convince state leaders to review the Justice Center's effects on the workers who are investigated.

NEW YORK, NY (03/26/2018)(readMedia)-- Today the Let NY Vote coalition released a series of 30 - second video interviews with a variety of New Yorkers, and Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, about why they support early voting.

The commitment is to be written into the Liberal Democrat manifesto, according to David Laws, its chief author, clearing a major obstacle in the path of a second coalition deal with the Tories.

The Lib Dem leader also argued that any coalition with the party that finished second in the election — on most current projections Labour — would lack «legitimacy» with voters, who would question the government's «birthright».

«We're experimenting with Coalition Government, the first one since the Second World War.

With a coalition government there'll be political infighting and possibly a second election.