Sentences with phrase «labour election pledges»

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With the BC Federation of Labour pledging the «mass mobilization» of its 450,000 - strong membership on Dix's behalf, this could also be the most polarizing election in a generation.

Pressure is mounting on the Prime Minister and Chancellor to relax austerity, with several Tory MPs calling for an end to the pay cap after the party disastrously lost its majority in the General Election to anti-austerity Labour, which has pledged to scrap the 1 per cent ceiling.

«Our children deserve real jobs with real pay and Labour win any election by pledging to be a lighter shade of blue.»

From Harold Wilson in 1975 opting for a referendum to quell internal disquiet in the Labour Party, to Tony Blair's pledge on the single currency and the constitutional treaty as gambits to close down the European issue for an election but to encourage conflict within the Conservatives, EU referendum commitments have been driven largely by British politics.

And at the last election, it wasn't the Labour Party that pledged to give the NHS the money it asked for to meet its five - year plan — it was this party, the Conservative Party...

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.

In April 2013, Miliband pledged ahead of the upcoming county elections that Labour would change planning laws to give local authorities greater authority to decide what shops can open in their high streets.

That Sunday, in a car park in Hastings, Miliband unveiled an 8ft 6in slab of limestone, into which had been carved Labour's six election pledges.

At present Labour is losing support to the SNP in Scotland, to UKIP in its English and Welsh heartlands and, in the light of Corbyn's half - hearted support for Remain, may well see the support of disappointed middle - class pro-Europeans shift towards the Liberal Democrats (who have pledged to go into any future election committed to reversing the decision to leave the European Union).

Labour's election pledge is its most symbolically powerful break with the economics of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown - but will it save money?

Before the general election, Labour pledged to not begin necessary public expenditure cuts until the economic recovery was secure so the pain would be reduced.

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.

Alexander, writing for the Guardian's Comment is free, also discloses that the Labour election campaign is expected to be built round a spine of five pledges.

It is welcome news that Labour has pledged to oppose the plans in parliament and will scrap the entire project if they win the next election.

Labour has unveiled five pledges to help struggling families ahead of the local election campaign.

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.

To the bemusement of their own party, the Tory leadership will go into the election accepting Labour's spending plans, proposing that 45 % of GDP is taken in tax, and pledging a tax increase to match every tax cut.

Labour leader Ed Miliband will pledge to repeal the controversial housing benefit reform known as the spare room subsidy - or the «bedroom tax» - if his party win the next General Election in 2015.

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.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has named the Labour Party's five key election pledges and said keeping the country on the «road to recovery» is central to his strategy, as Gary Gibbon reports.

During the election campaign, Labour officials said the foxhunting pledge had helped them enormously on the doorstep.

[132] The Daily Mail and Daily Express praised Theresa May for election pledges that were condemned when proposed by Labour in previous elections.

But he made clear both that the free movement of Labour and people would come to an end, and that Labour would not fight an election pledging to overturn the result.

Ed Miliband has pledged to reverse changes to housing benefit which he called the «bedroom tax», if Labour wins the 2015 general election.

Factors contributing to the Labour victory were a strong economy and falling unemployment, as well as that Labour was seen as having delivered on many key election pledges that it had made in 1997.

Ed Miliband has pledged to reverse changes to housing benefit which he calls the «bedroom tax», if Labour wins the 2015 general election.

Come 2015 or whenever the next election is, Labour isn't going to go into the election pledging to spend # 1 billion on giving cash handouts to the richest 15 % of families, and in a fortnight there are # 12 billion in welfare cuts plus untold billions more in cutting public services which will be higher priorities to oppose and pledge to reverse.

The pledge opens up a clear policy divide between Labour and its Conservative and Liberal Democrat opponents and is likely to be a major issue at the next election.»

Liberal Democrats, Labour and the Green Party have all pledged to follow the vInspired lead and will deliver five election promises for young people on Twitter, as part of their manifestos; so groundwork has been made.

What Wintour did not say was that Bell is now best - known in Labour circles as the architect of the famous «Ed Stone» - the 8ft tombstone engraved with Miliband's top six pledges for the 2015 general election.

There was astonishment aplenty as the Labour leader unveiled a giant stone inscription bearing Labour's six election pledges, to be installed in the Downing Street garden if he becomes prime minister.

But he is now best - known in Labour circles as the architect of the EdStone - the 8ft tombstone engraved with six pledges for the 2015 general election.

The Labour leader has unveiled a giant stone inscription bearing Labour's six election pledges.

Prior to the 2010 general election, the Labour Party and the Liberal Democrats pledged to introduce fixed - term elections.

During the 2017 general election campaign on 2 May 2017, Labour's pledge to recruit an extra 10,000 police officers was overshadowed by Abbott's inability to give accurate funding figures.

ToryDiary: «The Government's pledge to reduce net migration is a key plank of the next election campaign - CCHQ regularly issues infographics and updates reminding everyone that the Coalition's record starkly contrasts with Labour's incompetence in border control.

While he pledges to fight «to the last second of this election», the Telegraph warns that Labour may be heading for the worst defeat of any governing party for a generation.

In his final party conference speech before the general election, the Labour leader put the NHS at the heart of his pitch, pledging a fund to pay for tens of thousands more doctors, nurses and midwives.

So, whilst all three unionist parties must honour Gordon Brown's pledge to deliver the «sharing of sovereignty» through a «federal state» within two years in order to forestall another independence referendum, Labour faces a massive task if it it is to recover its core support in the Westminster and Holyrood elections it faces in Scotland over the next two years.

«We welcome the extension of crime mapping introduced before the election, including measures that were included in Labour's policing pledge.

This regime collapsed within a year, after May reversed her previous public pledges and called a general election (which Jeremy Corbyn's Labour agreed to under the terms of the Fixed Term Parliament Act).

Gordon Brown has responded to Labour's worst local election results for 40 years by pledging to «take the fight» to the Conservatives.

Mr Corbyn has accepted a share of the responsibility for the by - election defeat but pledged to «finish the job» rather than standing down as Labour leader.

Marcus Jones, a Conservative, says before the general election Labour pledged to cut spending roughly in line with the coalition's current rate of deficit reduction.

Labour will fight the next general election on a # 25 billion pledge to retain Britain's independent nuclear deterrent - Independent

Labour launches its general election manifesto with pledges to reduce the deficit and bring down debt.

Instead, reformers are meant to be cheered that at least Labour's next manifesto will now include not only the detailed Lords reform plan contained in that draft bill but also a pledge for a referendum on the alternative vote system of election for the Commons.

Labour issued a new pledge card at the 2001 election, saying «thank you for helping us build the foundations,» and voters gave Mr Blair the benefit of the doubt against a feeble Conservative Party.

Then the 2015 election became the first where Labour featured the tightening of immigration controls as one of its top five pledges — with pledge cards and campaign mugs to underline the commitment.