Sentences with phrase «unionist opponents»

With neither Labour nor the Conservatives likely to be capable of forming a majority government and given the SNP's fragmented unionist opponents north of the border, Britain's first - past - the - post electoral system could allow Nicola Sturgeon's party to exact a high price for support of a government in the Commons.

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As they had promised, the Lords accepted the Budget on 28 April 1910 — a year to the day after its introduction [15]-- when the land tax proposal was dropped, but contention between the government and the Lords continued until the second general election in December 1910, when the Unionists were again outpolled by their combined opponents.