Sentences with phrase «labour against coalition»

Liberal Democrat MP Don Foster said his party could vote with Labour against coalition colleagues to try and block the News Corp takeover of BSkyB.

Not exact matches

The VAT hike was particularly poorly timed for this campaign and became a keystone of Labour rhetoric against the coalition's «broken promises».

But the changes are in the interests of everyone (* except * the Conservatives, perhaps), including a viable Labour coalition partner for the Liberal Democrats, for the Liberal Democrats to have increased power against the Conservatives.

It was lowest among those who thought the Lib Dems should have formed a coalition with Labour or stayed in opposition (35 %), voted in protest against the bigger parties (46 %), and to stop the party they most dislike from winning (31 %).

Solidarity had a conference in Motherwell on Saturday and urged its supporters to «lend» their votes to Nicola Sturgeon's party at the general election — helping, in a small way, to increase the SNP's chances of building a left coalition against Labour.

With Labour, the DUP and the Lib Dems also due to vote against the plans, it will be for this coalition of opposition parties to tempt a small number of more sceptical Conservatives into the no lobby with them.

Second, the voting public knows full well that every country is hurting at the moment, and will judge both the level of blame to be ascribed to Labour, and the reasonableness of the coalition's cuts, against that benchmark.

The other big news in the last seven days is that the Labour Party have now officially come out against the possibility of a formal coalition with the SNP, in part to reduce their vulnerability to the Conservatives adopting a «Vote Ed, get Alex» strategy.

She has also been involved in the Stop the War coalition, and faces off against Labour's Michael Shanks, a charity worker and Labour activist.

Labour will support government plans to join airstrikes against Islamic State (IS) when the House of Commons votes to join America's broad coalition of countries fighting the insurgency in Iraq, Good Morning Britain has heard.

For the Labour leadership, the choice is simple - take a principled view that they support an elected House of Lords and so ask their MPs to vote with the Government, saving it from possible defeat; or take a more pragmatic view that their job is to break up the Coalition and so ask their MPs to vote against the Bill.

Balls» Budget response showed an improved ability on the Labour benches to deploy damaging framing devices against the coalition, with the shadow chancellor branding yesterday's housing policy a «spare home subsidy».

Last year, I counselled against too brutal a reaction to the idea of a future coalition between the Liberal Democrats and Labour.

Opponents to the coalition's bid to introduce more competition into the NHS had won a sweeping victory, but Labour's fight against the reforms appears to be far from over.

The rebellious backbench Tory MP stepped up his calls for the immediate breakup of the coalition after Liberal Democrat ministers voted with Labour against boundary changes earlier this week.

In Wales, Plaid is self - critical for its dalliance in coalition with a Labour Party that, under Rhodri Morgan, retained a modicum of «clear red water» against Westminster and just held on to Assembly power, despite the British electoral disaster.

However, he is 74 and his prominence in the coalition government may count against him with the electorate, particularly in Labour seats.

Labour's 27 % may look bad when compared to the Tories» 43 %, but it's frankly miraculous when you consider that the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition — which recently condemned the «Blairite coup» against Corbyn — attracted 0.1 % of the vote in the 2015 general election.

She will barely mention the governing coalition, focusing instead on a fight against Labour.

The Labour Assembly Against Austerity saw over 200 party activists come together to discuss the cost of living crisis being caused by coalition austerity and the need for Labour to present an inspiring alternative vision that will win the 2015 election and then go on to change people's lives for the better.

There was a period in 2014 when disillusionment with austerity, the possibility of Scottish independence, and a firmer push against nuclearism by the Liberal Democrats in coalition and Labour under Ed Miliband could have aligned to shift the debate, but that moment has passed — at least for now.

Today Mr Prescott went one step further, by demanding Labour voters vote against the introduction of AV and treat the referendum as a vote on the coalition government.

Ed Balls, who had advised Brown that Labour should reprise its «Vatman» campaign from the 1992 election (a caped Norman Lamont was depicted as «Vatman»), is now leading the charge against the coalition's VAT increase.

My guess is that the reason is that Labour are really the only major opposition party to the coalition and hence many people will be telling pollsters they'd vote Labour as the only mainstream way of voting against the coalition.

Labour politicians, especially the surly Ed Balls and Ed Miliband, are portrayed as the bad guys: tribal, belligerent, arrogant and against coalition.

Liberal Democrat MP David Laws was at the heart of talks with the Conservatives and Labour as a Coalition Government deal was thrashed out against the clock in May.

The Labour narrative at this point talks cheerfully of a Labour win against the dispirited and divided coalition.

The Tory right would set up an Independent Conservative Party probably backed by UKIP, to stand against the Coalition and many Lib Dems on the left will join Labour (or for the really leftwing ones, the Greens).

Labour leader Ed Miliband yesterday appealed to disgruntled Liberal Democrats to work with him against the UK coalition Government.

«Labour may have made huge polling inroads against the Lib Dems since the coalition but converting this to vital gains in a general election might be challenging,» Smithson writes, adding: «Labour's task will be made much harder because in several they would be fighting popular and well - known incumbents,» including Simon Hughes, Sarah Teather and Lynne Featherstone.

Mr Johnson also said Labour had an «important role» to play in opposition against the new Conservative - Lib Dem coalition government

Caretaker Labour leader Harriet Harman also questioned the coalition's spending cuts: «Already Labour is responding to people's concerns about jobs and public services and mobilising against Tory / Lib Dem decisions which will harm this country.

In a straight vote against the Conservatives, DUP and UKIP on the Right, the Left coalition of Labour and Liberal Democrat wins.

«THOMPSON Park replaced the House of Commons as Labour leadership hopeful Ed Miliband challenged Burnley Lib - Dem MP Gordon Birtwistle to vote against the coalition Government's budget during an impromptu debate.