Sentences with phrase «conservative election platform»

The Prime Minister thought everything was going as planned, when he announced last October, several measures promised in the 2011 Conservative election platform.

Not exact matches

Surrounded by an enthusiastic studio audience, Stephen Harper tabled the Conservative party election platform in Mississauga this morning.

Based on what Environment Minister Peter Kent recently told CBC's Evan Solomon, the Tories no longer oppose only the broadest form of carbon tax (as proposed Stéphane Dion is his disastrous 2008 election run as Liberal leader), but also the cap - and - trade option, which use to be in the Conservative platform (it's on page 32 here).

The Conservative government proposed it in their 2006 election platform, only to find out quickly that such a target was not achievable.

Although the Conservatives have made fewer announcements than the other parties since the election call, their policy platform really began last October.

As part of its 2006 election platform, the Conservative Party promised to «create an Independent Budget Authority to provide objective analysis directly to Parliament about the state of the nation's finances and trends in the national economy; require government departments and agencies to provide timely information to the Parliamentary Budget Authority to ensure it has the information it needs to provide accurate analyses to Parliament; and ensure that government fiscal forecasts are updated quarterly and that they provide complete data for both revenue and spending forecasts».

With less than four months until the general election, Ontario's Progressive Conservative party is leaderless, and would - be-leaders have already abandoned at least some of the commitments in the party's election campaign platform.

Tory platform says no Brexit deal better than bad one UK prime minister Theresa May unveiled the Conservative Party manifesto on Thursday, setting the stage for the general election on 8 June.

Moving to the general election, Romney has to make his pitch to independent voters, but also do his utmost to build a platform and an organization that can help him bring out the conservative base.

As Sunder pointed out in his post here earlier today, the Conservatives did not fight the election on a platform of completely abolishing the CTF.

Beyond this kind of displacement there has been little serious thought or engagement, even in a Conservative party that has fought successive general elections on a platform that has included support for some form of «English votes for English laws.»

In a tumultuous political environment, rife with trolling, egging and even spitting, it takes a brave soul to disclose on a public platform that you voted Conservative in two consecutive elections.

Former BBC correspondent Martin Bell defeated the sitting Conservative MP Neil Hamilton in the 1997 general election running as an independent on an anti-corruption platform

Asked about the Lib Dems he said, «The problem they have is very simple - they fought the 2010 election on a platform significantly to the left of Labour and then ended up in a Conservative Government with a platform significantly to the right of Labour... there's not really a cure for that.»

To bolster its meagre majority, the Conservative leadership needs a policy platform to win over the two groups which it lost most ground to Labour at the general election: young people and urban voters.

The Conservatives also invested # 1.2 million in Facebook advertising in the run - up to May's general election, while Labour spent just # 16,454.67 on the social media platform.

Only a fool believes Britain will ever leave Europe and an even bigger one believes that the Conservative party could stand on a platform of Britain out and win an election.

At the Euro elections he failed to endorse the Conservative platform, earning a stinging rebuke from David Cameron to «watch it».

«Plus, the Conservative platform this election offered little more than the status quo,» said Alexander.

Might I suggest that the real impetus for mandatory minimum sentences in tobacco smuggling cases has more to do with the Conservative party's 2011 election platform that accurately noted contraband tobacco «results in huge losses in revenue»?

The Liberals and the Conservatives both had it in their election platforms but it has not occurred yet.