Sentences with phrase «to secure a majority»

To secure a majority of votes under AV, candidates will need to be more honest about points of agreement.

Conservative hopes of securing a majority in the next election looked little better than a pipe dream today, with new polling showing them falling significantly behind in two of their target constituencies.

The new Prime Minister, Theresa May, called in April 2017 for a snap general election with the stated aim of securing a majority for Brexit negotiations; [5] it received parliamentary approval the following day, and was arranged for Thursday 8 June 2017.

If the new government can not secure a majority in the Commons within 14 days an election is triggered.

Talk to backbench MPs across the party divide and a common theme emerges: a pessimism shared across the red and blue tribes that their party will secure a majority government at the next General Election.

However, his ill - feeling towards Brussels does lead him to the conclusion that, on balance, he would ultimately prefer to see Britain leave the EU than his party secure another majority at the 2020 election.

Updated Murray Goulburn says it will «commercially assess» the latest move from Saputo after the Canadian dairy giant secured a majority stake in Warrnambool Cheese & Butter.

Whereas the original West Lothian Question was problematic by - and - large in the abstract, the current «West Lothian max» arrangement will see Scottish nationalist MPs securing majorities on bills that were put forward by a Scottish nationalist - backed government yet will only apply outside of Scotland.

Japan didn't secure the majority vote, as many had feared, so lost control of the meeting agenda.

Murray Goulburn will «commercially assess» the latest move from Saputo, as the Canadian dairy giant secured a majority stake in Warrnambool Cheese & Butter (WCB), effectively ending the bidding war for Australia's oldest listed dairy processor.

Incumbent Republican chairman Dan Alfonso, after failing to secure a majority from his caucus, went to minority Democrats, who gave him the votes to defeat caucus nominee Phil Sinagra.

Research by British Future suggested David Cameron could have secured a majority if ethnic minority voters had supported the Tories in equal numbers to their white counterparts.

We are seeking to maximise Labour MPs to secure a majority Labour government» (Good Morning Britain, ITV, 20 April 2015).

Following Chinese steel company Sinosteel's announcement that it had secured majority control in iron ore miner Midwest Corporation last week, questions have been raised regarding the potential of future acquisitions of WA mining companies.

Elliott wants to keep Genish, appointed by Vivendi, but he told Britain's Sunday Telegraph that his position would be untenable if Elliott and its allies secured a majority of board seats at a shareholder vote on Friday.

Mr Hollande secured a majority of support for his plan to introduce eurobonds, which would share the continent's debts more broadly.

I've read conflicting explanations of how the election would be resolved in the case that no candidate secures a majority of electoral votes.

MPs vote overwhelmingly to ban smoking in cars with children, with advocates for the change securing a majority of 269 votes in favour

Despite the controversy Molloy still secured a majority of nearly 5,000, but the joint unionist tactic succeeded in cutting Sinn Fein's vote by 10,000.

The Conservative's expected failure to secure a majority plunges Britain into a political crisis just days before Brexit negotiations begin.

In the nineteenth century, a number of Governments, even with apparently secure majorities, fell apart during the course of a parliament, in part because opposition leaders were able to exploit fracture lines.

But what the No campaign has shown us, I believe, is that arguing for one's case with vigour and conviction, as David Cameron, George Osborne, Sayeeda Warsi and the Conservative machine as a whole (at least for the final couple of months of the campaign) has done - serving as able understudies to Matthew Elliot's splendid overarching campaign, which magnificently secured a majority of Labour MPs (underlining the point that most of Labour are our opponents, not our enemy)- can shift opinion.

Mr Blenkinsop secured a majority of 2,268, at the 2015 election, up from 1,677 five years earlier, but faces a fierce battle with the Conservatives to retain the seat again.

@ Rosie Robertson The fact that Ed Miliband did not secure a majority among party MPs or members is neither inaccurate nor untruthful.

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People (some erstwhile liberal or labor supporters of the freedom movement who never had difficulty accommodating to the ancient practice of white domination and exclusiveness) profess shock and alarm when Black leaders assert that the time has come to secure majority rule in the counties, cities, towns, congressional, senatorial and state assembly districts where Blacks are the majority.

Cultivated relationships with ad agencies to consistently secure the majority of all digital ad budgets.

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Even with a big majority, there were times when backbench rebellions meant their plans for England were pushed through Parliament against the wishes of English MPs, and only Scottish votes secured a majority for Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.

Looking at how the vote was distributed at the general election the Conservatives should, on a uniform swing, be able to secure a majority on a lead of about 6 %.

Arsenal boss Wenger also dominates all three the demographic groups from the survey sample, securing majority votes from 18 - 34 year olds (15 per cent), 35 - 54 year olds (15 per cent) and over 55s (20 per cent).

Nigel Farage has launched UKIP's general election campaign on Canvey Island, Essex, predicting that no party will secure a majority at Westminster on 7th May.

Subiaco - based Nemex Resources has abandoned plans to wholly acquire Wavefront Biometric Technologies, but will instead raise capital and secure a majority stake in the target.

While the proportion of the population that is working - class is falling steadily, it remains hard to see a route to power for Labour if it can not secure a majority in this group.

As the Conservative party secures a majority and David Cameron heads back to Downing Street, three Christians tell us how they're feeling.

Mrs May has been advised by the chief whip that the hybrid option could be the only way of securing a majority in parliament for a Brexit deal.

The SNP won another term in power - but fell just short of securing a majority of MSPs.

Opposition leader Julius Maada Bio of the Sierra Leone People's Party led with 43.3 percent of the vote in the first round of elections but failed to secure a majority vote needed to win, according to the electoral commission.

No group managed to secure a majority in the Italian parliament, heralding weeks of political uncertainty and raising the prospect of a government between sworn enemies - the center - right led by former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi and the center - left under Pier Luigi Bersani.

Whitehall source says defence secretary will be asked to name his price to break deadlock

Pro-Brexit ministers fear Downing Street will try to pick off the defence secretary, Gavin Williamson, in the coming days — to break the cabinet deadlock and secure a majority for Theresa May's favoured customs...

BN lost the popular vote in the 2013 general election, but secured a majority of parliamentary seats.

Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, however, managed to secure a majority to vote his way and thus Operation Twist has been put into place.

party fails to secure a majority in next month's parliamentary elections.

In New Zealand, Prime Minister Bill English» National Party is reported to win the most votes, though he was unable to secure a majority in the parliament.

Sky Sports have secured the majority of the Premier League TV rights in an astonishing # 5.136 billion deal.

And just a year before, Johnson and Gove had been key players in a moderate Conservative General Election campaign that secured a majority for a moderate Conservative Government led by a moderate Prime Minister.

This election has been a disaster for them, as it has too for the Liberal Democrats, who paid the price for locking themselves into a secure majority government for five years rather than seeing what they could achieve by working with a Tory minority administration.