Sentences with phrase «with dup»

News that the government had located the magic money tree for its # 1.5 bn deal with the DUP prompted (unsurprisingly) renewed calls for more funding for legal aid; you can read Catherine Baksi's article about this here.

They have to recover from the election result, to regroup, and believe their deal with the DUP will give them the breathing space to do so.

(Just please, please tell me you're not spending time looking up writing jobs in the cesspool that rhymes with Dup Jerk...)

Exploring both her past with the DUP, and the two years prior when she was living on the streets with her brother, First Light is a microcosm of everything that was both good and bad with Sucker Punch's newest iteration of its super powered franchise.

However the UK government's policy strategy on full transparency is likely to be highly influenced by their # 1 billion deal with the DUP.

Why is James Brokenshire colluding with the DUP to cover up Northern Irish donations between 2014 and 2017?

645 voters could have deprived the Conservatives of a majority with the DUP, depriving them of a deal.

Indeed, if 75 voters in the right seats had voted differently the Conservatives would have a working majority, meaning a deal with the DUP would have been unnecessary.

But Mr Fallon insisted that just because the Tories are seeking an alliance with the DUP it «doesn't mean we agree with all their views»

Speaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, Mr Fallon said there is an «understanding on the outline proposals» with the DUP but that any deal would «not be a coalition».

But if Sinn Féin voluntarily end the practice of double - jobbing, the Conservatives will have less of a bargaining chip if they enter negotiations with the DUP.

Sources close to the prime minister say that she understands the concerns of liberal Tories like Ruth Davidson about the possible price of a deal with the DUP, and she will not offer them any promises to reduce the rights of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, trangender or intersexual community, or to reduce womens» rights to abortion.

She is hiding the true source of this donation and the only conclusion here, is this protects the deal the government has with the DUP.»

On the moderate wing of the UUP, she was critical of the party's electoral pact with the DUP [3] and with Unionist demonstrations at Belfast's Saint Anne's Cathedral [4] against the Anglo - Irish Agreement.

In 2015, he sat (along with the DUP MP and Brexit campaign manager Jeffrey Donaldson) on the All Party Parliamentary Group on unconventional oil and gas, and later became the vice-chair.

The prime minister has sent a team of officials, led by her chief whip, Gavin Williamson, to Belfast to negotiate the details of an alliance with the DUP.

«I wasn't co-operating with the DUP I was working for Vote Leave at the time,» Reynolds told openDemocracy.

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Cameron refused to rule out a coalition with DUP MPs but said he «profoundly disagreed» with the DUP's policy on gay rights and would «never validate» it.

It was this attitude that promoted David Cameron to speak out when the prospect of a coalition with the DUP was raised in 2015.

The prime minister has sent a team of officials to Belfast to negotiate the details of an alliance with the DUP.

Theresa May's grip on power appears far from secure despite a potential deal with the DUP to support her in Parliament.

If you thought young activists posing for selfies with the DUP's Arlene Foster was as strange as it could get, think again

After the agreement with the DUP is formed, the government is still a minority one.

Yonge thinks he should look to do a deal with the DUP, who are closing on double figures.

But if so, and assuming that the Tories do end up in an agreement with the DUP, would it just be a case of retroactively «authorising» the start of the talks?

The deal with the DUP, to give the Conservatives the majority they want, apparently hasn't yet been finalised,

Given that: Brexit negotiations are due to start tomorrow (19 June 2017), The deal with the DUP, to give the Conservatives the majority they want, apparently hasn't yet been finalised, At least not...

Constitutionally and democratically, there is nothing wrong with what May is doing with the DUP.

McGuinness» resignation letter spoke of his «deep personal frustration» with the DUP's foot - dragging around cultural and equality issues and «shameful disrespect» towards nationalists and minorities.

Scots and Welsh MPs are demanding full details of the government's deal with the DUP in case it means they are missing out on millions of pounds of cash.

The Conservatives lost their overall majority and will have to try to form some sort of working arrangement with the DUP if they are to have any hope of governing.

Ms Villiers, generally perceived as detached from local affairs, caused consternation in Belfast by openly campaigning with the DUP ahead of the EU referendum.

The more seats a party or grouping has, the more chance it has of forming a government - with 198 seats out of 646 the Conservative Party could only form a government if significant numbers of other MP's decided to back them, as happened in 1924 when there was a situation that the Conservatives didn't want to form a coalition with either other main party and equally the Liberals didn't want a coalition with Labour and the Liberals and Conservatives saw it as an opportunity to allow Labour into government but in a situation in which legislation was still reliant on Liberal and Conservative votes and they could be brought down at the most suitable time, supposing the notional gains were accurate and in the improbable event of the next election going exactly the same way in terms of votes then 214 out of 650 is 32.93 % of seats compared to at 198 out of 646 seats - 30.65 % of seats and the Conservative Party would then be 14 seats closer towards a total neccessary to form a government allowing for the greater number of seats, on the one hand the Conservatives need Labour to fail but equally they need to succeed themselves given that the Liberal Democrats appear likely to oppose anyone forming a government who does not embark on a serious programme to introduce PR, in addition PC & SNP would expect moves towards Independence for Scotland and Wales, the SDLP will be likely to back Labour and equally UKIP would want a committment to withdraw from Europe and anyway will be likely to be in small numbers if any, pretty much that leaves cutting a deal with the DUP which would only add the backing of an extra 10 - 13 MP's.

This paper does not recall such demonstrations when Gordon Brown sought a deal with the DUP in 2010, or when Ed Miliband did the same in 2015.

• You report that Theresa May's deal with the DUP will cost # 1bn.

Speaking after meetings with the DUP and Sinn Fein, among others, Mr Blair said: «I think this is the last chance for this generation really to make this process work.

Given the Conservatives distasteful campaign, the unrelenting politicisation of Corbyn's relationship with the IRA, their call for an end to the «unfair» prosecution of British soldiers for crimes committed during the Troubles and their present desire for a deal with the DUP, one might be forgiven for wondering how a Conservative government might ever expect to be perceived by nationalists as independent guarantors of the Nothern Irish peace process.

The government continues with DUP support with an enthused Labour Party and the SNP licking their wounds.

Hanging on in power by a thread through a delicate agreement with the DUP, the party must broaden its electoral appeal in order to achieve the healthy parliamentary majority it so dearly craves.

In the current 2017 UK general election which has resulted hung parliament, Theresa May is trying to get a deal with the DUP.

Labour lost the General Election and the Conservatives appear intent on striking a deal with the DUP in order to hold onto power.

One in which Labour have the most seats, one where the Tories have the most seats, and a third where the Tories do but would not be able to command a majority even with DUP and Lib Dem support.

Without either the SNP or the Lib Dems, Miliband's chances of a majority (alone or with the DUP or with the other left - wing MPs) are just 1 %.

It is entirely legitimate for her to stay on while she tries to sort out a deal with the DUP, asks for a delay in talks, then presides over a leadership contest.

The same applies to whatever deal she can cut with the DUP's 10 strong team in Westminster.

Despite this morning's Tory swagger, they are precariously placed - if these results were applied at parliamentary level, the Conservatives would lose their ability to govern with the DUP, their only viable Brexit allies.

Nick McPherson, the former Treasury chief, suggested on Twitter that the # 1bn deal reached by May with the DUP is no more than a downpayment.

That's a pretty big obstacle to doing a deal with the DUP.

Not exact matches

The first phase of exit negotiations should have concluded in October, but only ended last week after a last - minute push to bring May's junior coalition partner — Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party (DUP)-- on board with the deal.