Atlantic Sentinel

Tag: UK Election 2015

Parliamentary elections were held in the United Kingdom on May 7. The Atlantic Sentinel endorsed a continuation of the Conservative-Liberal coalition, but Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservatives won an outright majority of 330 seats. Labour went down from 258 to 232. The separatist National Party won 56 of the 59 seats in Scotland.

  • Britain’s Conservatives Beat Expectations, Win Election

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    Aerial view of the Palace of Westminster in London, England (iStock/Robert Ingelhart)
    • Britain’s ruling Conservative Party has won 330 seats in the House of Commons, a gain of 28 and four more than are needed for a majority.
    • David Cameron is due to stay on as prime minister.
    • Labour went down from 256 to 232 seats. The Liberal Democrats, who have governed in a coalition with Cameron since 2010, lost 48 of their 56 seats.
    • The Scottish National Party took 56 out of 59 seats in Scotland.
    • Nigel Farage’s United Kingdom Independence Party failed to win any seats. (more…)

  • Five More Years: British Should Reelect Cameron, Clegg

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    Prime Ministers David Cameron of the United Kingdom and Pedro Passos Coelho of Portugal meet in Lisbon, September 4, 2015 (10 Downing Street/Adam Brown)

    With Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservatives expected to once again fall short of a parliamentary majority in the election this week, this website is hoping the Liberal Democrats will scrape together enough seats to keep the two parties in power. The last five years of coalition government have been stable and successful. The alternative, a Labour government held to ransom by Scottish separatists, would be anything but. (more…)