Sentences with phrase «alternative vote referendum»

He faces a more real threat from energy and climate change secretary Chris Huhne, who has been at the forefront of dissent against the Conservatives» approach to the rejected alternative vote referendum.

Parish council elections and the national Alternative Vote referendum were held on the same day.

The Liverpool Council election, 2011 to the city of Liverpool council happened on the same day as the United Kingdom local elections, 2011 and the United Kingdom Alternative Vote referendum, 2011 on 5 May.

Shortly before 23:00 BST Mr Davidson received vocal criticism after pointing out that the SNP's proposals were not always accepted — as was the case with his support for the «yes» campaign in the defeated alternative vote referendum.

Though Labour remained officially neutral, he in a personal capacity supported the ultimately unsuccessful «Yes to AV» campaign in the Alternative Vote referendum on 5 May 2011, saying that it would benefit Britain's «progressive majority».

When I published the first phase of Project Blueprint in May 2011, David Cameron's first anniversary as Prime Minister, political comment was dominated by the relationship between Conservative and Liberal Democrat MPs following the Alternative Vote referendum.

Meanwhile, a Lib Dem victory in the alternative vote referendum could even more extensive reprecussions.

It can be argued that Cameron has double - crossed Clegg on democratic reform before — taking a more active role in the no campaign in the alternative vote referendum last year than he had promised in private.

In the run - up to the 2011 Alternative Vote referendum, the party adopted an equivocal stance, advising its supporters, on 8 April, to «vote as you see fit».

The chance to change the voting system, viewed by many as the root of all evils in British political culture, was crushed early in this parliament by the alternative vote referendum defeat.

Tagged: Alternative Vote Referendum · AV · David Cameron · Electoral Reform · Nick Clegg

The alternative vote referendum, as part of the Conservative — Liberal Democrat Coalition Agreement drawn up after the 2010 general election, was a nationwide vote held on Thursday 5 May 2011 (the same date as local elections in many areas) to choose the method of electing MPs at subsequent general elections.

The total cost of the alternative vote referendum will not be known until the autumn, but government sources provided a rough costing this morning

It found last year's alternative vote referendum a nightmare to organise and wants a period of at least 28 weeks - 12 for the finalisation of the rules, and a 16 - week campaign period.

Three case studies will form the majority of my thesis: the Plant Report 1990 - 1993, Jenkins Commission 1998 and the Alternative Vote Referendum 2011, with the arguments put forward by defenders of FPTP and supporters of reform reanalysed and reappraised.

It was the Alternative Vote Referendum in 2011 which drew my attention to the split in the Labour Party over whether to support First - Past - the - Post (FPTP) or the Alternative Vote (AV).

Exclusive: as Nick Clegg confirms the date for an alternative vote referendum, YouGov's Peter Kellner says research for Channel 4 News suggests an AV general election could have produced a Lib - Lab deal in May.

In 2011 a campaign to encourage Muslims in Britain to vote YES in the UK was launched in response to the Alternative Vote referendum.

Miliband has, though, offered to share a platform with Clegg on the alternative vote referendum, the next fascinating dilemma for centre - left politicians.

Why didn't people opt for at least modest reform in the alternative vote referendum three years ago?

The shock value of the «No» campaign's baby unit posters in the Alternative Vote referendum, or the Leave campaign's Breaking Point» poster of a long queue of migrants show that, under the current free - for - all, campaigners find that courting controversy is worthwhile if there are votes to be won.

During the alternative vote referendum, they channelled funding to Labour - led groups that specialised in scurrilous personal attacks on Nick, which led to one of the few cases of real verbal fisticuffs in Cabinet.

Clegg, faced with hostility to the plan and bruised after the failure of the alternative vote referendum campaign, is attempting a more sensitive approach this time, bringing in a package of measures that would appeal to ordinarily sceptical MPs and peers.

Unlike many other polls asking about voting intention in the referendum YouGov's tracker on the Alternative Vote referendum starts with text briefly summarising what First Past the Post and Alternative Vote actually are.

Tories say the redrawing of Britain's electoral map was originally a quid pro quo for the alternative vote referendum.

In his speech to the Lib Dem conference on Tuesday, Huhne, who fell out with Conservative cabinet colleagues over their tactics during the Alternative Vote referendum in May, will warn David Cameron to keep the Tory right under control, saying: «We don't need the Tea Party tendency in Britain.»

In this, the EU referendum is similar to the UK's Alternative Vote referendum in 2011, in which voters were asked if they wanted to replace the first past the post voting system with the «alternative vote».