If they lose a confidence vote—often tied to a budget—they can be brought down, triggering another election. For example, in 1979, a minority Progressive Conservative government collapsed ...

And on election night… González refused to recognize ... campaign since the return of democracy in Ecuador, from the year 1979 onward. And I say shady because it’s been the campaign with ...

Pope Francis was a man of the people, who will be remembered most for his compassion, his courage and his humility, writes ...

A show now at the Seattle Art Museum is the largest in the U.S. in the 40-year career of the renowned Chinese artist.

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The death of Pope Francis has triggered a period of mourning in the Vatican and signals the start of a millennia-old process ...

Donald Trump has stepped up his attacks on Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell at the same time that the Supreme Court is considering a case that could make it easier for the ...

But minority governments are unstable by nature and can collapse if they lose a confidence vote — potentially triggering another election, as happened in 1979 when a Conservative minority government ...

The birth of the Byron Community Centre in 1980 was a profoundly important moment in the history of the Shire – an event ...

After the three day week Edward Heath went to the country and held an election in 1974, which he lost to Labour. That was even more disastrous and by the time the 1979 election came around (after ...

‘There are times, perhaps once every thirty years, when there is a sea-change in politics,’ he told a colleague on the eve of the 1979 election. ‘I suspect there is now such a sea-change – and it is ...