Sentences with phrase «general election pact»

Douglas Carswell, a leading Eurosceptic who favours a UK exit from the EU, says the Tories should form a general election pact with Ukip.

These fears have been compounded by the recent announcement from the Liberal Democrat's Deputy Leader, Simon Hughes that there will be no General Election pact between the Conservatives and his party.

Not exact matches

I can easily see a LibLab pact after the next General Election but it's harder to envisage a CleggLab pact.

[30] This Lib - Lab pact failed to form because Labour's massive majority after the 1997 general election made it an irrelevance for Labour, and because Labour were not prepared to consider the introduction of proportional representation and other Lib Dem conditions.

Farron had stuck resolutely to his line of «no coalitions, no pacts,» with other parties, in the wake of the general election result, which led to a hung parliament.

UKIP may have cost the Conservatives up to 20 seats at the 2010 general election with a split in the eurosceptic vote, leading to talk of a ceasefire, pact or merger between the two parties.

The Countryside Alliance and the UK Independence Party have both dismissed suggestions they have formed a tactical pact with pressure group Fathers 4 Justice to contest Labour seats at the next general election.

«The failure of a once powerful political party to respect a pact on power shift and a single term led to its fall at the center in the 2015 general elections.

«This autumn both David Cameron and Nick Clegg should ask their parties to approve a binding agreement to fight the 2015 general election as coalition partners... If the voters choose to keep our current system of electing MPs, as I fervently hope they will, the pact would give parliamentary candidates in constituencies in seats held by a coalition party a free run against other parties.

If the Conservatives look like getting 305 seats at the next General Election but could get an extra 20 - 30 seats by forming a short - term narrow pact with Ukip, and if Ukip believe they can force Miliband to promise an in - out referendum by forming a short - term narrow pact with the Conservatives, we should not allow personality issues to prevent us from doing the deal.

This may be a thesis too far for many Conservative and LibDem MPs as Boles wants their parties to agree to an electoral pact well in advance of the next general election.

A Conservative MP is suggesting an electoral pact with UKIP ahead of the 2015 general election, to prevent a spit in the «small c Conservative vote».

The prime minister rejected calls from Eurosceptic Tories to form a pact with Ukip before next year's general election.

Good Piece, However i think your wrong, the liberals will pull out once the AV is defeated and allow a minority goverment to continue on a vote by vote basis and start the campaign to repair themselfes ahead of the next general election, only to find themselfes in the same position again, except this time it will end up a lib — lab pact.