Sentences with phrase «senior coalition ministers»

The issue is likely to be resolved at a meeting of the quad, the most senior coalition ministers, possibly later this week.

Not exact matches

Still, there was degree of complacency in markets that the polls, which had shown a Bersani - Monti coalition, would be able to gain control,» said Westpac Bank's senior currency strategist Sean Callow, referring to center - left leader Pier Luigi Bersani and Mario Monti, the outgoing prime minister who leads a centrist alliance.

David Laws was a senior Lib Dem policy adviser, MP and Coalition minister.

To avoid the Baker scenario, the Liberal Democrats should deploy more than one junior minister in key departments that are led by the senior party of the coalition.

In a candid interview looking back on his five years as deputy prime minister in the Tory - Lib Dem coalition, Clegg said he found the behaviour of his senior Conservative partner «very unattractive, very cynical».

Lib Dem Coalition ministers do have a number of possible & real allies on equality measures even amongst senior Conservatives (e.g. May & occasionally also Cameron); amicable discussion should be retained in this dimension.

Befitting its status as the senior coalition partner, contributing 306 of the coalition's original 363 MPs, and both the prime minister and chancellor of the exchequer, the Conservative Party provided the the primary inspiration for the programme for government that ensued from the negotiations between the two parties.

Senior Conservatives were jubilant at winning the AV vote and preventing any major lose of councils in England but they were under strict instructions from Downing Street not to be seen celebrating, as ministers tried to prevent the election from destroying the coalition.

The mutual contempt between coalition ministers and their senior civil servants is now so bad it is putting the effectiveness of government at risk, a think - tank has warned.

The Daily Telegraph reported yesterday that a senior Cabinet minister had confirmed that the Coalition had not finished with its plans for cutting universal benefits further and that «nothing will remain intact.»

Not budging: Senior Lib Dems including Energy Secretary Chris Huhne (left) and Justice Minister Lord McNally (right) are said to have suggested they would quit if the coalition backed the repeal of the Human Rights Act

It seems more likely that the Coalition of 2010, as organised by a very small clique of political elites (probable ministers and senior party figures), required the bypassing of Westminster and the Coalition agreements, precluding formal democratic procedure and parliamentary government founded on accountability to the electorate.

Many senior Labour politicians, most recently the shadow Cabinet Office minister Michael Dugher, spurn all discussion and planning for a coalition post-2015 as defeatist.

«A coalition would be much better than a looser alliance», one senior minister said.

Other supporters include Labour MPs Tom Harris and Gerald Kaufman and former senior Tory ministers in the Coalition such as Oliver Heald, Sir Edward Garnier and Bob Neill as well as Sir Peter Tapsell, the Father of the House of Commons.

A senior Conservative minister has become the first member of the government to back proposals to field coalition candidates at the next general election.His comments to The Sunday Telegraph came as both parties began a battle to bolster the coalition in the wake of a week of damaging revelations made by Vince Cable and other Lib Dem ministers to undercover reporters.

A very senior Cabinet minister has told me that the Coalition has now scrapped its radical plans to pay for primary elections to choose party candidates in 200 safe seats.

After a budget which exposed strains in the coalition agenda senior Liberal Democrat ministers defend a rise in VAT despite campaigning against the move during the election.

Social Services Minister Christian Porter talks down conservative opposition to the Coalition's superannuation policy, saying changes laid out in the budget have the «solid support» of senior party figures.

The Scottish first minister, Alex Salmond, has hinted he could be open to a coalition between Labour and the Scottish National party (SNP), raising the possibility that he could return to Westminster and take a senior role in the government next May.

If the SNP had enough seats to form a coalition with Labour and Salmond were an MP, there is a chance he could be given a senior role in the government like Nick Clegg, who became the Liberal Democrat deputy prime minister in 2010.

Senior Liberal Democrats pressed the Prime Minister and the Culture Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, to limit the damage to the Coalition by derailing News Corp's bid to buy the 61 per cent of BSkyB it does not already own.

Imagining what could have happened had the Tories not become the senior coalition partners, Mr Pickles warned of a «dour» Gordon Brown as Prime Minister, cursing Tony Blair and listening to the advice of former spin doctor Damian McBride and «policy wonk» Ed Miliband.

But some senior ministers believe Mr Cameron should stay on if Mr Miliband is only able to cobble together a fragile coalition.