Sentences with phrase «started coalition negotiations»

In that same 22 Days in May postscript, Laws also notes that the Lib Dems» retreat towards economic liberalism, combined with a move towards social liberalism for the Tories under David Cameron, gave the parties some common ground on which to start coalition negotiations.

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People should start putting pressure on these parties to begin such negotiations as soon as possible so that immediately after the election they would be prepared to go to the Governor General with the request that they be recognized as a majority coalition government.

The details of the stillborn coalition negotiations between the two centre - left parties comes as senior figures in both parties start building bridges ahead of what is expected to be another hung parliament in 2015.

Even if negotiations are started by the current Coalition government, its position on Trident and Faslane may be altered by the new government.

There will be a sense of urgency to the coalition talks to form a new British government because the Brexit clock is ticking: formal negotiations between the British government and the EU are due to start on June 19 — just 10 days away.

While it took almost a full hour - and - a-half for it to be formally acknowledged, what viewers were actually seeing from the start of the debate were coalition negotiations unfolding before their very eyes — as the Conservative Party press office pointed out on Twitter.

When negotiations started in June, the diplomats, who negotiate on all manner of U.N. declarations, were slow to come to the table with their proposals, according to Ann Keeling, chair of the NCD Alliance (NCDA), a coalition of more than 2000 NCD organizations from 170 countries, which has been close to the negotiations and was pushing for a document with more teeth.

The euro had a troubled start, however, thanks to news over the weekend that negotiations to form a coalition government in Germany failed to pan out.