Sentences with phrase «clegg election strategy»

But Huhne has gone and Farron, who two years ago spent the entire conference fielding questions about his leadership ambitions, is keeping his head down and loyally backing the Clegg election strategy.

Not exact matches

The motion in Clegg's name aiming to persuade the party to back George Osborne's deficit reduction strategy in the 2015 election and beyond may be the most significant of all.

Ed Miliband clearly couldn't share a platform with Nick Clegg while at the same time pursuing a strategy in local elections of targeting past - libdem voters over their «betrayal».

Unfortunately they have failed because the electorate simply does not believe Clegg; they think he can not be trusted because he changed his mind on economic strategy prior to the general election yet continued making arguments which ran counter to this change.

• David Steel has said that Nick Clegg should draw up an «exit strategy» from the coalition before the general election, the Sunday Express reports.

While Tory tactical voting has averted a deeper Lib Dem party crisis, the by - election has cost Nick Clegg his governing strategy — his warnings to his party not to seek distinctiveness within the coalition now scrapped in favour of «Operation Detach», and an increasing amount of yellow dissent at every level.

Clegg is embarking on a strategy in which he will take no prisoners as he moves to shore up his party's support in the runup to the 2015 general election.

Douglas Alexander, the man with the plan behind the Labour election strategy, has brushed off Nick Clegg's meteoric rise in recent election polls in a «Twinterview» with Channel 4 News presenter Krishnan Guru - Murthy.

The prime minister will be unable to table his demands for the repatriation of powers before the next election because Clegg has dismissed this strategy as «a false promise wrapped in a union jack».