Sentences with phrase «slender majority»

So, I think if there's an opportunity — as there appears to be here — and on an issue where David Cameron appears to be out of touch with majority English opinion as well, to actually remind the government how slender their majority is.»

«In these circumstances, it is right and proper that we assert the Scottish interest on fox hunting by voting with Labour against the Tories» proposals to relax the ban - in the process, reminding an arrogant UK government of just how slender their majority is - just as we will vote against the Tory welfare cuts next week, and appeal to Labour to join us.»

Tessa Jowell has represented the seat since its creation in 1997, having won the previous Dulwich seat from the Conservatives with a slender majority 5 years earlier.

David Cameron commands a slender majority, but it is enough to pass most of his legislative programme in a more transparent fashion.

Republicans seized on signs of movement in their direction yesterday as they unleashed a massive election - eve voter mobilization operation in an effort to stave off potentially substantial losses in the House and preserve at least a slender majority in the Senate.

That would almost certainly be enough to overturn the PM's slender majority.

This led to suggestions of deselection, but Streeting is turning his criticism into a virtue in defending his slender majority of 589 against old foe Lee Scott.

However, Brooklyn State Senator Simcha Felder has caucused with the Republicans since his election in 2012, handing the advantage to the GOP — a slender majority bolstered by the eight - member Independent Democratic Conference, which has held a power - sharing arrangement with the Republicans in 2012.

Labour won the seat in May with a slender majority of 103 over the Liberal Democrats.

Brown will be PM for 3 years, calling the election in 2010 Cameron will win a slender majority and be PM for one term, until 2015 This will be followed by a Lib / Lab coalition with Milliband as PM until 2020 when the LDs are all but wiped out as the UK swings Conservative again

Officially, Lynch, the MP for Halifax, has stepped down as she prepares to defend a slender majority of 428 votes, while McGinn wants to spend more time with a young family.

Are we in power, sitting on a slender majority or even in coalition?

He touted the Nassau Interim Finance Authority's critique of the Suozzi budget, and scared voters with details from a mandated multiyear plan that he knew might never come to pass in order to win his slender majority.

However, Brooklyn State Senator Simcha Felder has caucused with the Republicans since his election in 2012, handing the advantage to the GOP — a slender majority bolstered by the eight - member Independent Democratic Conference, which has held a power - sharing arrangement with the Republicans for nearly five years.

Deep cuts to jobs, wages and pensions were passed by a slender majority, and it would not take much of a political shift for Greece to abandon its debts — and the euro.

When the UK went to the polls on June 23rd, few people predicted the outcome that arose, with the Leave campaign scoring a shock win and a slender majority of the UK public voting to leave the European Union.