Sentences with phrase «lab pact»

At present, therefore, we have a single - party minority government as distinct from a formal inter-party agreement, as occurred with the Lib - Lab pact from 1977 — 78, or a formal coalition.

This doesn't mean anyone is about to revive the Lib - Lab pact any time soon (and Clarke said he was confident that the current turmoil in the Labour party would not lead to any Labour MPs defecting to the Lib Dems, in the way Brian Sedgemore did).

Cameron divulged that Gordon Brown was intent on offering the Liberal Democrats the guarantee of electoral reform in return for a Lib / Lab pact.

Tactical union: David Cameron swayed sceptical Tories by revealing Gordon brown's plans to concede electoral reform as the price of a Lib - Lab pact

Almost 30 years since the Limehouse Declaration marked the defection of four senior Labour politicians to found the Social Democratic Party (SDP), a fledgling Lib Lab pact is being forged.

Clegg won't be remembered as the leader who ferried the Liberals back to power after 8o years in the wilderness (their stint in government will be a mere footnote, like the Lib - Lab pact of 1977).

A Lib - Lab pact would bring together two parties with conflicting views about how to tackle the deficit but united on one point - a commitment to dithering and delay.

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.

From the Lib - Lab pact of 1977 to Ramsey MacDonald's 1924 minority Labour government, the United Kingdom is no stranger to hung parliaments.

Labour denied reports of a heated telephone conversation between Brown and Clegg, and support among Brown's Cabinet colleagues remained strong, but one backbencher, John Mann, urged Brown to step aside as Labour leader before the party conference in September, arguing that Brown's continued leadership «rules out the credibility of a Lib / Lab pact».

Discussions between Labour and the Liberal party in March produced the Lib - Lab pact, based on agreement on a series of issues.

The closest this country has come to a minority government in recent years is the 1977 Lib - Lab pact, when a beleaguered Labour government with no overall majority agreed to accept a range of Liberal party policy proposals — on condition the Liberals voted with Labour in any no confidence votes.

The period 1945 - 2010 saw the dominance of single party governments, but with the possibility of minority government in 1974 and the informal Lib - Lab pact of 1976 - 1979.

Yet by 1974 it had a fifth of the vote and went on to support a Labour government in office through the Lib - Lab pact in 1977 - 78.

After Tony Blair left Paddy Ashdown at the altar a decade ago, what sounds like a return to the Lib - Lab pact of the Seventies will hardly rekindle the romance.

the Lib - Lab pact of the 1970s was formed around the special «uncle - nephew» rapport that developed between Callaghan and Steel.

Taunton MP Jackie Ballard is expected to enter the race on a platform of no further extension to the Lib - Lab pact.

As seen with the Lib - Lab pact, once policy objectives have been met, it can be difficult to retain the support of minor parties.

Between 1977 and 1978 the Liberal party, under David Steel, entered into the «Lib - Lab pact» with Jim Callaghan's Labour government.

In 1979, however, the Welsh Liberals suffered from the Lib - Lab pact, and support for the failed devolution referendum resulted in a poor election for the Liberals: over half of their 28 candidates lost their deposit.

An arrangement negotiated in 1977 with Liberal leader David Steel, known as the Lib — Lab pact, ended after one year.

[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.

The intervention may serve to convince some sceptical Labour MPs of the wisdom of a Lib - Lab pact.

If Labour ends up the largest party in a hung parliament there's plenty of material for a Lib / Lab pact.

Well one things for sure, a Lib / Lab pact will be the only way to defeat the Tories if Labour starts sliding down the drain again, which it looks like it is...

His theory for the Lib Dems» next two years is that this is the best «configuration» to start a coalition with, expressing that his «hero» Paddy Ashdown's Lib - Lab pact worried him because he felt it resulted in an erosion of Lib Dem identity, so chummy was the «long - term love - in».

Partly because of his political background, he was generally sceptical of cooperation with other parties, supporting the 1976 - 78 Lib - Lab pact only grudgingly and taking a hard line against a too - generous allocation of seats to the SDP in the early days of the Alliance in 1981 - 82.

Not exact matches

I personally don't mind whether there's a Lab - LibDem coalition if there's a hung parliament, or a semi-formal pact that allows Labour to continue in office with conditional LibDem support.

At a guess, they're the ones who hate Nick Clegg but like Vince Cable and don't want the party to be destroyed — and therefore could coherently both 1) hate the coalition and 2) want to see a Lab / Lib pact next time.

So I tend to discount the idea of the «Lib - Lab» pact so fondly fantasised about around here, as it would be politically suicidal for the Liberal Democrats («we're a new direction... oh hang on, we're supporting the very unpopular previous government»)

Members of Local 81380, which represents lab workers at the plant, voted 61 - 0 for the pact, which was spearheaded by closed - door negotiations between the administration of Gov. Andrew Cuomo and officials of Momentive Performance Materials, which is owned by several hedge funds that include some of the richest men in the U.S.

#ukip #grimsby When I asked what happens when subsidies for renewable energy run out I am insulted by Lib / Lab / Con / Grn pact but none answered

The Lib Dems «worry» says Mandelson, «was that the referendum would be lost because voters might see a Lab - Lib pact as a self - interested stitch - up on both sides, so it might be better to avoid such a test.»

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