Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Of the 57 Liberal Democrat MPs, only two refused to support the Conservative Coalition agreement, with former party leader Charles Kennedy and Manchester Withington MP John Leech both rebelling against. [5] The 11 sections were as follows: Deficit Reduction; Spending Review – NHS, Schools and a Fairer Society; Tax Measures; Banking Reform ...
It was the UK's first coalition government since the Churchill caretaker ministry in 1945. The coalition was led by Cameron as Prime Minister with Clegg as Deputy Prime Minister and composed of members of both Cameron's centre-right Conservative Party and Clegg's centrist Liberal Democrats.
The Liberal Democrats emerged from a meeting of their Parliamentary party and Federal Executive to announce that the coalition deal had been "approved overwhelmingly" shortly after midnight on 12 May, and later the same day the two parties published the Conservative–Liberal Democrat coalition agreement setting out the terms of their deal.
Coalition talks began immediately between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats, and lasted for five days. There was an aborted attempt to put together a Labour/Liberal Democrat coalition (although 11 seats from other smaller parties would have been required).
The 1916 War Cabinet, which contained both Liberal and Conservative ministers. In British politics, a Lib–Con pact is a working arrangement between the Liberal Party (the predecessors to the Liberal Democrats) and the Conservatives. The Liberal and Conservative parties had several working agreements in the first half of the 20th century.
The 2015 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday, 7 May 2015 to elect 650 members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons.The Conservative Party, led by Prime Minister David Cameron, won an unexpected majority victory of ten seats; they had been leading a coalition government with the Liberal Democrats.
David Cameron became Prime Minister and Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg became Deputy Prime Minister. The initial Conservative–Liberal Democrat coalition agreement, dated 11 May 2010, detailed the issues which had been agreed between the two parties before they committed to entering into coalition. On the issue of an electoral reform ...
The 50% top rate of income tax was reduced to 45% by the Conservative–Liberal Democrat coalition. [178] Alongside a reduction in tax and commitments to keep taxation low, the Conservative Party has significantly reduced government spending, through the austerity programme which commenced in 2010, subsequent to the 2007–2008 financial crisis ...