Sentences with phrase «labour forming the next government»

Which means reversing loss of support to new insurgents could be vital to determining whether Labour forms the next government.

Not exact matches

That's why the central task of the whole Labour party, must be to rebuild trust and support to win the next general election and form the next government.

The Scottish Labour leadership contest this autumn is important for the entire Labour Party in Britain, because how the party performs in Scotland will be a significant factor in whether Labour can form the next UK government.

Only when these negotiations failed did Heath resign, and Labour, the largest party by five seats, was invited to form the next government.

Following the election of Tony Blair as Labour leader in July 1994 after the death of his predecessor John Smith, Ashdown pursued co-operation between the two parties because he wanted to form a coalition government should the next general election end without any party having an overall majority.

These changes would constitute a massive shift in how the UK is governed and is likely to be heavily resisted by the Labour party as it would place huge and possibly terminal restrictions on their powers should they form the next government in 2015.

It comes as a series of new polls suggest that the party are making no progress in the marginal seats they need to win from Labour in order to form the next government.

Labour's Scottish executive committee chairwoman Cathy Peattie said: «Our next deputy leader in Scotland will have a crucial role in supporting Richard Leonard as we seek to form a government at British and Scottish levels, to deliver an economy that works for the many, not the few.»

Even if it comes to office with a healthy majority, when the next Conservative government is formed, serious consideration should be given to offering Labour MP Frank Field the position of Secretary of State for Work and Pensions.

The more seats a party or grouping has, the more chance it has of forming a government - with 198 seats out of 646 the Conservative Party could only form a government if significant numbers of other MP's decided to back them, as happened in 1924 when there was a situation that the Conservatives didn't want to form a coalition with either other main party and equally the Liberals didn't want a coalition with Labour and the Liberals and Conservatives saw it as an opportunity to allow Labour into government but in a situation in which legislation was still reliant on Liberal and Conservative votes and they could be brought down at the most suitable time, supposing the notional gains were accurate and in the improbable event of the next election going exactly the same way in terms of votes then 214 out of 650 is 32.93 % of seats compared to at 198 out of 646 seats - 30.65 % of seats and the Conservative Party would then be 14 seats closer towards a total neccessary to form a government allowing for the greater number of seats, on the one hand the Conservatives need Labour to fail but equally they need to succeed themselves given that the Liberal Democrats appear likely to oppose anyone forming a government who does not embark on a serious programme to introduce PR, in addition PC & SNP would expect moves towards Independence for Scotland and Wales, the SDLP will be likely to back Labour and equally UKIP would want a committment to withdraw from Europe and anyway will be likely to be in small numbers if any, pretty much that leaves cutting a deal with the DUP which would only add the backing of an extra 10 - 13 MP's.

«I am therefore appointing Ian Lavery, Co-National Campaign Coordinator, to the additional role of Labour party chair to strengthen our campaigning and party organisation, as we prepare to contest a new general election and form the next government.»

Their concerns date back to those five febrile days in May after the cliffhanger poll result left the future of the country in the balance as Cameron, Clegg and Labour negotiators bartered behind closed doors over who would form the next government.

Meanwhile his decision to repeatedly state that the party with the largest number of seats should form the next government is set to undermine the legitimacy of any minority Labour government should we see one next month.

If Labour are to form a coalition government with the Lib Dems following the next election, then I would rather deal with Clegg than Cable.

Labour needs economic credibility to form the next government.

Labour will need to win 68 back at the next election to form a majority government.

They need a united Labour party in Holyrood that is fighting the SNP and ready to form Scotland's next government.

The weakness of the offer on the NHS is one reason why it isn't even clear that Labour will form or lead the next government, or have a majority large enough to push through the changes we want.

He resigned the next morning and Ramsay MacDonald formed the first Labour government, but that only lasted nine months.

While winning economic credibility should remain a Labour priority and I've written in the current Progress magazine on how this might be done, it may be that a perceived dearth of authenticity, rather than economic credibility, is the most immediate cause of a heightened risk that Labour will not form the next government.

Whilst I don't think this strategy would be a road to win Holyrood it would be a way to rebuild in their old heartlands in the central belt and break the SNP hegemony as when Labour does next form a government they probably will need a decent showing in Scotland to get a majority.