Sentences with phrase «general election promises»

These former UKIP voters have probably gone back to Labour on a conditional basis thinking that Labour is still committed to its General Election promises of ensuring a full Brexit.

It fought the 1983 general election promising to pull us out of the Common Market.

His intervention signals that the Lib Dems are more willing to break their general election promise that winter fuel payments would be delayed until the age of 65, up from 60.

President Akufo - Addo while campaigning ahead of the December general elections promised to investigate the DKM scandal if he gets the nod.

Not exact matches

In the runup to the 2015 UK general election, former Prime Minister David Cameron promised to hold a nationwide referendum on Britain's membership of the EU if he was elected for a second time.

«It's not so bad in a general election because you have got five years to sort it out and the lies and promises will blow back in people's faces,» Sugar said.

The update focused on fulfilling election promises such as removing the tolls on the Golden Ears and Port Mann bridges and increasing the general corporate income tax rate.

Mr Shuker also said the Conservatives had failed to clear the deficit by the next general election like they promised to.

Elsewhere at the conference, the shadow hancellor promised to cut ministers» pay by 5 % and to reduce child benefits in real terms if Labour wins next year's general election.

Cameron promised in his Bloomberg speech in Europe to hold an in - out referendum on Britain's future in the EU during the next parliament if the Conservatives win the next general election.

The PSOE 1982 general election manifesto included the following statement: «The PSOE will keep its promise to hold a referendum, so that the people may decide on Spain's NATO membership.»

Wendy Long is campaigning hard for the pro-gun vote, as evidenced by this video, in which she promises to challenge Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on the constitutional right to bear arms should she make it past the GOP primary and into a head - to - head contest with the Democratic junior senator in the November general election.

In a bid to head off Ukip's threat, David Cameron yesterday promised legal safeguards before the end of the current parliament to guarantee a referendum on the EU after the general election.

There is still four - and - a-half years until the planned date of the next general election, but student anger against the tuition fees hike backed by the Lib Dems - who signed a pledge promising to oppose any increase before the general election - is unlikely to fade away.

Apart from a call for repatriating certain powers, the Prime Minister promised the British people an in - or - out referendum in 2017 should his party win the 2015 general election.

He would try to stop Theresa May formally triggering Brexit unless she promises a referendum on the final deal or calls a general election to approve it.

The government faces frustrating levels of unemployment and the NPP promise to provide jobs was one of the central issues in the 2016 general elections.

At the 1997 general election, both Labour and the Liberal Democrats promised freedom of information laws.

As they had promised, the Lords accepted the Budget on 28 April 1910 — a year to the day after its introduction [15]-- when the land tax proposal was dropped, but contention between the government and the Lords continued until the second general election in December 1910, when the Unionists were again outpolled by their combined opponents.

The United States, US, Government has promised to support Nigeria in ensuring a transparent, credible and peaceful general elections in 2019.

Former Vice President, Paa Kwesi Amisah Arthur, has asked the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) to fulfill all the «170 promises» it made to Ghanaians during the 2016 general elections.

Speaking plainly, Smith told Andrew Marr, «I want us to be part of the European Union», then argued Labour should go into the General Election in 2020 promising to keep Britain in the EU, if it were still an option.

Speaking to about 100 members of the Republican National Committee this week in Florida, Trump's chief strategist Paul Manafort reportedly promised that his candidate was honing a more palatable persona for the general election.

While a final decision on whether to renew Trident has been put off until 2016, the issue promises to resurface periodically between then and now — not least of all in next year's general election campaign and this year's referendum on Scottish independence.

She also displayed her own weakness both before and after the General Election as she promised much rhetorically, only to produce paltry policies.

The Conservative manifesto for the 2015 general election contained a promise not to raise income tax, VAT, or national insurance for the duration of the parliament.

In the July Budget, Osborne also planned to cut tax credits, which top up pay for low - income workers, prompting claims that this represented a breach of promises made by colleagues before the general election in May.

President John Dramani Mahama has promised that the next NDC administration his watch will train about 10,000 female head porters popularly known as «Kayayei» for employment if he is retained after the December 7, 2016 general election.

President John Mahama has promised to build five new stadia in the country if he wins the upcoming general elections.

The party has taken due cognizance of the fact that the government of His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo and His Excellency Alhaji Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia is very much on course to delivering on all the electoral promises we made to the good people of this country in the run - up to the 2016 general elections.

Barely three months to the crucial general elections on December 7 which promises to be keenly contested among the two leading political parties (NDC & NPP), Dr Bawumia seems to intensify his attack on the performance of the Mahama - led administration each passing day.

With at least four months to the 2016 general elections, Nana Akufo - Addo on the campaign trail promised to build one factory in each of the 216 districts.

The Conservatives are unlikely to promise tax cuts at the next general election, the shadow chancellor has confirmed.

General Mosquito promised massive infrastructure projects if the Mahama - led government is given another term in office ahead of the crucial elections.

The Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg launched the Welsh Liberal Democrats» general election campaign at Cardiff's Panasonic factory promising economic growth for all parts of the UK and «a fairer society for Wales».

Alan Johnson will be able to come in and promise an early general election — in the spring of next year; that is, roughly, when there has to be an election anyway and nobody has anything to lose.

It is an ineluctable fact: poll after poll has shown that most Britons are strongly against the expansion of the EU's power - and an even greater majority demand the referendum promised by all three main parties in their manifestos at the last General Election.

This led to the Labour manifesto for the 2015 general election under Ed Miliband's leadership which promised to «legislate to make three - year tenancies the norm, with a ceiling on excessive rent rises».

«I do promise you that being on the ballot twice makes this race a hell of a lot more winnable in the general election,» Wilson told The Sun.

Of all the vote - catching strategies laid out by the ruling All Progressives Congress in the lead up to the 2015 general elections, its promise to prosecute...

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Sagnarigu, Alhaji A.B.A Fuseini has promised to connect every town in his constituency to the national power grid before the December 7 general elections.

During the 2017 UK general election campaign Liar Liar GE2017, a song by the reggae band Captain SKA, which criticised unfulfilled Conservative party campaign promises from previous elections, was banned by all major British broadcasters.

The free SHS policy had been a major promise by the Akufo - Akufo government during run up to the December 7 2012 and 2016 general elections.

If Cuomo is successful in his promised efforts at Democratic unity and winning seats for Democrats in the April special elections and November general elections, and he himself wins reelection, he may have the opportunity to see virtually all of his professed progressive goals passed in 2019.

The Conservatives are looking to find ways of cutting back on the number of promises they make to voters before the 2015 general election, it has emerged.

Both Mr Cameron and his shadow chancellor, George Osborne, have rejected promising tax cuts so early in the parliament, saying it is «highly unlikely» they will be part of the next general election manifesto.

The nationalists can point to Brown's promise of a second reading bill before the general election as proof that the English can't deliver what they promised.

He promised to mobilise PDP members across the nation of the 2019 general election.

Speaking plainly, Smith told Andrew Marr, «I want us to be part of the European Union», then argued Labour should go into the General Election in 2020 promising to keep Britain -LSB-...]

Free SHS was a major campaign promise of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the 2012 and 2016 general elections.