Nick Clegg launched the Liberal
Democrat election manifesto highlighting five key priorities on day 17 of the campaign.
Not exact matches
In the 2010
election manifestos, the Liberal
Democrats, Labour and the Conservatives each promised to legislate and the coalition agreement included it as a firm proposal.
If the Liberal
Democrats can ensure that their party structures operate so as to allow a clear voice to come through, they have every chance of putting forward a distinctive
manifesto at the next
election - one that will, in all likelihood, put it closer to a reformed Labour Party, should the Alternative Vote deliver another hung parliament.
They will be duty bound to push for their
manifesto commitments and although the Liberal
Democrats argue that they would help reign in Labour profligacy, it is hard to imagine they would force a second
election because public spending cuts are not deep enough.
Some MPs and Party members fear that David Cameron doesn't really want progress on this front at all, because he's hoping for a joint Coalition front at the next
election, and therefore a joint
manifesto with the Liberal
Democrats.
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The 2017
election campaign stepped up a gear this week as Labour, the Conservatives and the Liberal
Democrats all published their
election manifestos.
In the 2017
election, the Conservative
manifesto will be more heavily scrutinised than the Labour or Liberal
Democrat manifestos, since the Conservatives are expected to win a parliamentary majority on the basis of the published polls.
Roger Williams, deputy leader of the Welsh Liberal
Democrats, says the party's General
Election manifesto will include proposals to increase Wales's borrowing limit from # 500million to around # 1billion - giving Wales's proportional borrowing powers with Scotland.
It was, to some degree, and the Liberal
Democrats, who had the most pro-reform
manifesto commitment, got 23 % of the vote in the general
election.
Following the
election, the Liberal
Democrat Leader in the Lords, Lord Wallace, argued that the convention which constrains the Lords from voting down the governing party's
manifesto promises (the Salisbury convention — established following Labour's landslide victory in 1945, when the party had just 16 peers) was out of date.
The Welsh Liberal
Democrats have today released their 2015 General
Election manifesto - a detailed and credible plan to build both a stronger economy and a fairer society.
«In Government, the Liberal
Democrats have delivered on the front page of our previous General
Election manifesto.
This commitment has been made in General
Election manifestos published by both the Liberal
Democrats and the Welsh Liberal
Democrats.
Liberal
Democrats, Labour and the Green Party have all pledged to follow the vInspired lead and will deliver five
election promises for young people on Twitter, as part of their
manifestos; so groundwork has been made.
«As the Liberal
Democrats made clear throughout the
election and in negotiations, they had four key priorities which were set out on the front page of the
manifesto,» the statement added.
The Welsh Liberal
Democrats today unveiled their
manifesto ahead of next month's assembly
election, promising to build «a fair future, a green future,» if elected.
«The Conservative
election manifesto said that we don't need to have profit at the moment, the Liberal
Democrat manifesto said that we don't need profit at the moment and we don't.»
Ahead of the 2001 general
election, the Liberal
Democrats campaigned on a platform of abolishing tuition fees outright, while Labour claimed in its
manifesto that it had made the introduction of top - up fees illegal.
A decision to substantially keep control orders would present problems for the Liberal
Democrats who promised in their
election manifesto to scrap them.
However, the party is announcing today that the Welsh Liberal
Democrat General
Election manifesto will include proposals to increase the borrowing limit from # 500 million to around # 1 billion.
On 17 May 2017, the Liberal
Democrats launched their
manifesto for the 2017 General
Election.
The Liberal
Democrats have announced their vision for skills policy over the next parliament in their
election manifesto.
The Liberal
Democrats concentrated on education, while a UKIP figure suggested himself as a future leader, as the two parties launched their
election manifestos on Wednesday.
Liberal
Democrat women who accused Lord Rennard of sexual harassment have criticised their party for not taking disciplinary action against the former chief executive and allowing him to return to his job of helping to write Nick Clegg's 2015
election manifesto.
Responding to the launch of both the Liberal
Democrat and UKIP
manifestos, Mr Osborne said there is «a clear choice in the this
election» and that is to back a «strong» David Cameron.
Liberal
Democrat Education Minister David Laws has outlined the «the big priorities» of any future Lib Dem government, ahead of the
election manifesto launch.
Following the General
Election in 2015, NFER, in collaboration with Full Fact, reviewed the education promises made in the Conservative, Labour and Liberal
Democrat manifestos.
The Welsh Liberal
Democrats promise to create a «Wales that works for you», as they publish their assembly
election manifesto.
The Welsh Liberal
Democrats have promised to create a «Wales that works for you», as they published their assembly
election manifesto.