Sentences with phrase «deal electoral coalition»

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A deal with Labour would require a grand coalition with other parties and could be electoral suicide for the Lib Dems in southern England.

I believed at the time it was signed that the coalition deal wiped out support for electoral reform because it meant its core left wing rump, which felt it would ensure more left wing government in future, suddenly felt that wasn't true any more.

The coalition deal utterly destroyed support for electoral reform.

He knew full well that entering the coalition deal would destroy electoral reform for a generation.

With electoral reform at the heart of any coalition deal, today's noisy protest will go some way towards strengthening Mr Clegg's hand in his talks with Tory leader David Cameron.

I would campaign for a red - yellow deal including electoral reform and an agreed manifesto, were it possible, both now and (perhaps more realistically) in the event of a hung parliament, and for Labour to have a manifesto which did not contain coalition red lines for the LibDems, as that would.

It's time to stop the puffing of electoral pacts and hints of eventual mergers, and accept that the Coalition is a short - term and not a long - term arrangement: a specific deal meeting specific needs, that's delivering a great deal of good and which should last the full course of this Parliament.

As for voters, they should reflect that such shady, unsavoury deals constructed on half - truths and exaggerations, struck far away from the public gaze, are part and parcel of coalition politics - and would be entrenched for ever in Westminster if we adopt an electoral system such as the alternative vote.

His comments come after a senior party official has said electoral reform was «not a deal maker and not a deal breaker» for a possible coalition deal.

And, amazingly, a survey of activists found that 30 % of them thought that electoral reform should not be a «deal - breaker» in post-election negotiations on forming a coalition government.