Sentences with phrase «to win a parliamentary majority»

When the Liberal Party won a parliamentary majority in the 2015 federal election, their platform included an exciting promise for Canadians: they intended to legalize marijuana in Canada.

None of this ignores the fact that Labour is still some way from winning a parliamentary majority at a general election.

After our review, Harper won a Parliamentary majority in 2011 and since then a great deal has changed.

In the 2017 election, the Conservative manifesto will be more heavily scrutinised than the Labour or Liberal Democrat manifestos, since the Conservatives are expected to win a parliamentary majority on the basis of the published polls.

Peter Kelner of YouGov suggested it would be almost impossible for Cameron to now win a parliamentary majority.

This would prevent a repeat of what happened in 2005 when Tony Blair's New Labour won a parliamentary majority of 66 with just 35 per cent of the national vote.

«One of the key reasons why the Tories haven't won a parliamentary majority in a general election since that time is the way that Britain's electoral geography has been biased against them.

Last year, the Conservative Party of Canada, led by Stephen Harper, won a parliamentary majority after being in a minority government for five years.

If Labour fails to win a parliamentary majority at this election it had better respect the wish of the British people - something for which Barder apparently has very little respect - which would have spoken clearly against having a Labour government.

London (CNN) British Prime Minister Theresa May has failed to win a parliamentary majority in the UK election, leaving the country with what's known as a «hung parliament.»

The nation's general election on June 8 resulted in Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party failing to win a parliamentary majority.

The breakaway «Islamist» AKP, first encouraged by the military in order to weaken Erbakan, won a landslide victory in 2002, becoming the first party in decades to win parliamentary majority.

Each election, they invent names such as «Essex man» or «Worcester woman'to describe archetypal voters representative of marginal constituencies necessary to win a parliamentary majority.

Anyhow, this will be my last word on the NHS Bill for some time but if we are to win a parliamentary majority we need to get back to the position that David Cameron fought so hard to achieve at the last election - and neutralise the NHS as an election issue.

In this context, the vote shares of both the Conservatives and Labour have declined steadily, as has turnout, but Labour are the only one of the two major parties to have won a parliamentary majority in the last four elections (they managed it in three), suggesting their death twitches, as you may describe them, are a little more animated than the Tories.

In the mid-1970s, the Minister for Local Government, James Tully, attempted to arrange the constituencies to ensure that the governing Fine Gael — Labour Party National Coalition would win a parliamentary majority.

And then there is the political wing of the Establishment, the Conservative Party, which failed to win a parliamentary majority in the last election but is still pushing far - reaching policies it never put before the electorate.

It was the SNP's ambition and positivity, not the independence issue, that won them the Parliamentary majority.

Whether the budget bill, set for a vote in late May, will win a parliamentary majority is unclear.