Sentences with phrase «labour election manifesto»

Writing a New Labour election manifesto is easy.

They remain torn between the demands of a shadow treasury team (which includes Shabana Mahmood, the previous universities spokesperson) who are eager not to be seen to make unaffordable promises and a political opportunity to put a radical offer on tuition fees at the centre of the Labour election manifesto.

Not exact matches

He noted that neither Labour nor the Conservatives had mentioned the «M» word in their respective manifestos at the last general election.

He was, after all, the man that wrote the Labour manifesto at the 2010 election.

Instead, Labour will set out, in our general election manifesto, tough fiscal rules that the next Labour government will have to stick to - to get our country's current budget back to balance and national debt on a downward path.

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.

Hunting became a particularly high - profile political issue in the late 1990s, with the election of Tony Blair's Labour government, which in its 1997 manifesto promised MPs a free vote on a ban on hunting with hounds.

The last Labour government was able to plan its 1997 manifesto on the basis of rising departmental spending in the first years after the election.

That's hardly surprising; having been promised in Labour's 2005 election manifesto a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, and having seen other member states hold one, the public is eager to have its say.

The Labour manifesto for the 2010 general election again reiterated support for the third runway subject to environmental conditions, but added that the party «will not allow additional runways to proceed at any other airport in the next Parliament.»

Broad consensus exists between the unions collectively and Momentum on policy following the success of Labour's 2017 election manifesto, overseen by the underestimated Andrew Fisher.

Abolishing tuition fees is Labour's most memorable policy from the 2017 election manifesto.

The Party of European Socialists has attracted some rather unfavourable comment in the FT and The Economist (and much positive coverage elsewhere) on our manifesto for the 2009 European elections — agreed by all member parties including Labour at our meeting on December 1 in Madrid: check it out at http://www.pes.org/content/view/1457/72.

The Labour Party first pledged itself to a Freedom of Information Act in its 1974 election manifesto, but the precarious positions of the Wilson and Callaghan governments made progress impossible.

With campaigning kicking off for the London Mayoral Election it would be easy to forget that Labour's manifesto is yet to be written.

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.

He accepts that Labour has lost its «emotional connection» with millions of people, but believes that the 2015 manifesto was the «best one» he has supported in four general elections.

On 15 May 2012, Miliband appointed Owen Smith to replace Peter Hain — who retired from frontline politics — as Shadow Welsh Secretary, and also promoted Jon Cruddas to the Shadow Cabinet, putting him in charge of overseeing Labour's ongoing policy review with a view to draft Labour's manifesto for the next election.

John McDonnell says voters can expect to see «no increases in income tax for middle or low earners» in Labour's election manifesto.

With little more than a week and a half to go to the Scottish Parliament election (albeit with Labour remarkably still to unveil its manifesto) it seems there is nothing that can stand in the way of a second SNP overall majority.

Similarly, Tony would link his case for Labour members to control the party's election manifesto with the struggles of the chartists, suffragettes and, sometimes, Jesus Christ.

In 2008 Harriet Harman — surely the most influential militant feminist politician of her generation — introduced a piece of legislation which hadn't been trailed in the Labour party's 2005 election manifesto.

Harper believes that Miliband, who wrote the Labour manifesto for the last general election which committed the party to House of Lords reform, is playing a duplicitous game, he told the Guardian.

Gordon Brown should propose, in Labour's election manifesto, a referendum to introduce the Alternative Vote for Commons elections, alongside a second chamber which would be 80 per cent elected, by proportional representation.

«There was a strong consensus from the Meeting that it would be better to take some of the heat out of this public debate; this would entail taking forward a calmer internal party review of funding which would be more comprehensive and balanced (including importantly, addressing the Conservative multi-million pound donations at and between elections) and putting that forward as part of Labour's manifesto offer for party funding reforms.»

This has continued since the election as the Liberals have sacrificed many of the manifesto pledges that they used to pose themselves to the left of the Labour Party, such as the scrapping of Trident, proportional representation, an amnesty for illegal immigrants and opposition to nuclear power — the latter on which it will now abstain in any parliamentary votes rather than oppose it as its manifesto had stated.

Michael Gove is facing demands from Labour to explain whether the government has abandoned a Conservative general election manifesto pledge to give MPs a free vote on whether to overturn the foxhunting ban.

The 1997 General Election Labour Party manifesto was entitled «new Labour because Britain deserves better».

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.

I think you have confirmed my interpretation that he is saying, in effect, «Labour policy is okay for an election manifesto but not okay for governing».

The leaking of the Labour manifesto finally brought the election to life, but left questions about Labour's priorities

Labour is to fight the election on a manifesto pledging to offer jobs but cut long - term benefits to anyone who has been unemployed for more than two years.

Here in percentage terms (after factoring in fixed costs and manifesto pledges) are the degree to which the IFS thinks you are in the dark: you don't know 87 per cent of the cuts Labour would have to make if they stuck to their election promises, 82 per cent of the Tory cuts that would come your way, 74 per cent of the cuts the Lib Dems would have to make.

There is expected to be wrangling among Labour chiefs about how Lords reform is addressed in the party's next election manifesto.

10 out of 39 Labour MPs surveyed said that their next General Election manifesto should have a commitment to hold an EU referendum.

«Labour is committed to bringing forward proposals on the future of the House of Lords in its election manifesto,» he said.

Charlotte, 30, retweeted messages pointing out devolved regional parties have separate election manifestos and saying Plaid leader Leanne Wood's politics are closer to Corbyn's viewpoints than the Welsh Labour leader's are.

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If you were to go by the Labour and Conservative manifestos, in this general election over 80 % of the population supported a hard Brexit.

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».

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.

Launched at Labour party conference 2013, Labour Uncut's first book, «Labour's manifesto uncut: How to win in 2015 and why» maps out a centrist view of what the party's electoral offer could be at the next election.

It was Labour's turn on Tuesday, and yesterday it was the Lib Dems opportunity to launch their manifesto for the General Election on June 8th.

[183] The idea of a London mayor of a Greater London Authority (GLA) had been included in Labour's 1997 election manifesto, and after their election a referendum was scheduled for May 1998, in which there was a 72 % yes vote with a 34 % turnout.

Tagged: General Election 2015 · Labour manifesto · London Mayoral selection · NEC · Parliamentary Selections

The Labour Party proposed the creation of a Welsh Office run by a Secretary of State for Wales in their manifesto for the 1959 general election.

Mr Blair has ambitions which go far beyond implementing Labour's election manifesto: in his time in office Mr Blair hopes to realign the centre left to keep the Tories out of office for generations to come.

The incident overshadowed the unveiling of Labour's new election manifesto.