Sentences with phrase «taking seats in the parliament»

The year after she resigned, following 26 years as a Member of Parliament, just 24 women became MPs and took their seats in Parliament.

It is only available to those parties taking their seats in parliament, and, critically, is only available to opposition parties.

His successor, David Lidington, consistently stated his opposition saying that «Sinn Féin MPs should not be paid parliamentary salaries or be allowed to claim expenses while they refuse to take their seats in parliament.»

Not exact matches

Greek TV networks predict that New Democracy will take about 127 seats in the parliament, which when combined with the 32 seats for PASOK, give the coalition more than the 151 seats needed to form a government.

This means that the British government - whoever they may be at the time - will always be happy with the fact that Sinn Féin don't take their seats - this time around, that's 7 opposing votes they don't have to worry about in parliament.

«But having taken responsibility for something that happened ten years ago the only proper course of action for me is to resign my Eastleigh seat in parliament which I will do very shortly.

Survation's canvas for the Daily Record suggested Ukip might take six per cent of the list vote, which, according to Weber Shandwick's Scotland Votes seat predicting tool would see the party with a sizeable presence in the Scottish parliament.

While Callum Kerr is widely admired for his stint as MP for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk (BRS) but he has the smallest majority in Scotland and the Conservatives are so confident that their candidate John Lamont gave up the safety net of a Scottish parliament seat to take on the general election campaign.

For evidence, they might point to Eastleigh in the last parliament, when the Lib Dem hold steadied nerves in that party and contributed to the coalition going the distance — only for the Conservatives to then take the seat in 2015.

Labour's 179 seat majority in parliament will not be taken by Tony Blair as a mandate for progressive social reform.

They took a smaller share of the vote than at the previous election, but they managed to more than double their representation in parliament, [31] winning 46 seats, [28] through tactical voting and concentrating resources in winnable seats.

That said, Alison Dickie will probably take the seat, although that won't stop her challengers taking their place in the Parliament Chamber as Sarah Boyack, Ruth Davidson and Alison Johnstone are all also standing on the regional list (Ruth and Alison will definitely be returned as the lead list candidate for their parties, Sarah faces a less certain evening / early morning of May 6th as she is sitting behind Kezia Dugdale and Neil Findlay on the Labour list).

In 1999, at the first elections to the Scottish Parliament, Labour took all the constituency seats across the Glasgow region.

«preserves the single - member constituency link» Biggest mistake Labour ever made, making that the standard in 1947 — you seem to not be aware that multi member seats based on historic boundaries like Boroughs and Counties were the norm throughout most of the history of Parliament, it was taking that into account that led to the creation of BPr / STV.

Although Maclennan had taken the seat from George Mackie (currently the oldest living former Liberal MP), Mackie had taken it in 1964 from the * Tory * (albeit, Independent at the time), David Robertson (who'd kicked - up a stink in Parliament about a local boy slapped about by the Police).

Winning 232 seats in the 2015 general election, the Labour Party took its place as the official opposition at the start of the new parliament last year.

Former teacher Adam Walker takes over after party's vote collapses and Griffin loses only seat in European parliament

In the European Parliament election, 2014, the Sweden Democrats gained 2 seats with 9.67 % of the vote, up 6.4 %, and the Left Party took one seat with 6.3 % of the vote.

The NDC lost the Walewale parliamentary seat in the 2012 general election to the New Patriotic Party (NPP); the NDC again lost the Kumbungu seat to the Convention People's Party (CPP) in a bye - election held in 2013 after Alhaji Mohammed Mumuni, the then sitting NDC Member of Parliament (MP), resigned from Parliament to take up an international position.

The party's most recognisable MP after Nick Clegg lost his Sheffield Hallam seat is back in parliament after winning his old seat in Twickenham and might fancy finally taking the top job.

The SNP are now the third biggest party in the House of Commons with 56 MPs taking their seats when Parliament resumes this week.

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In the event that the leader dies, resigns or loses his or her seat in Parliament, the deputy leader (if there is one) serves as interim leader until a leadership election takes placIn the event that the leader dies, resigns or loses his or her seat in Parliament, the deputy leader (if there is one) serves as interim leader until a leadership election takes placin Parliament, the deputy leader (if there is one) serves as interim leader until a leadership election takes place.

Sinn Fein campaigns for unification between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland; its MPs do not take up their seats in Parliament, as doing so would require swearing an oath of loyalty to the Queen of the UK.

As the Press Association reports, Peter Jinman, Walter Rader and Sharon Darcy will take up seats on the committee on standards in January and will undertake training in the culture and practices of parliament.

He told Good Morning Britain that Ukip had taken votes from all parties, but had «cost Conservatives seats in Parliament,» putting Ed Miliband closer to Number 10.

A: Lord Ashcroft says that he likes his privacy, but he must have known that anyone who takes a seat in the Houses of Parliament becomes a public figure, and as a consequence loses the type of privacy enjoyed by people who are not involved in Westminster politics.

Andrea Jenkyns, a former music teacher and amateur opera singer, was a high - profile winner for the Conservatives, taking Ed Balls» Morley and Outwood seat after being prompted to run for parliament by the death of her father from MRSA contracted in hospital.

In 2007, the Holyrood and Scottish council elections took place on the same day, and saw the introduction of a new design of ballot paper for the parliament vote and a new voting system for the council seats.

However, the party currently holding the majority of seats in Canada's Parliament — or at least the person (s) who must be obeyed — have taken other steps in an attempt to remove the eligibility issue.

Does this mean that Parliament is now installed in the driving seat, and that it has thus «taken back control»?

Never mind that the new Article 13 proposal runs directly contrary to an existing EU law — the eCommerce Directive — which prohibits member states from imposing «general monitoring» obligations on hosting providers, Voss» own party colleague and predecessor, Therese Comodini Cachia (who left to take up a seat in her national parliament in Malta), was against the idea.