Sentences with phrase «second largest opposition»

The statement issued by the second largest opposition party was in relation to the deportation of the three suspected terrorists from South Africa.

But there are various scenarios in terms of who would become the second largest opposition party, which could have consequences beyond Labour.

Not exact matches

The polls were predicting a tight race between Labour and the Conservatives for second place, although most commentators believed that Labour would just about hold on to its position as the largest opposition party.

[24] With the Liberals thus in disarray, Labour won 142 seats in 1922, making it the second largest political group in the House of Commons and the official opposition to the Conservative government.

Labour is currently the Official Opposition in the Parliament of the United Kingdom, having won the second - largest number of seats in the 2017 general election.

[9] Instead the leader of the second largest parliamentary opposition party at the time, Nigel Dodds of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), usually asked a single question later in the session followed by at least one MP from another smaller party such as the Scottish National Party or Plaid Cymru.

The lawsuit is part of a growing effort to use litigation to overcome union opposition to changes in the way teachers in the nation's second - largest school district are assigned, retained, evaluated and granted tenure.