Sentences with phrase «date of the next general election»

There is still four - and - a-half years until the planned date of the next general election, but student anger against the tuition fees hike backed by the Lib Dems - who signed a pledge promising to oppose any increase before the general election - is unlikely to fade away.

Organising a well attended meeting will take a bit of organising, but you have over a year before the most likely date of the next general election.

The Leave campaign says this would abolish the 5 % rate of VAT on household energy bills by the date of the next general election.

The first measure announced this afternoon was legislation to secure fixed parliamentary terms, which will mean the date of the next general election will be 7 May 2015 - «a hugely significant constitutional innovation,» Mr Clegg said.

Not exact matches

Were there an alternative leader in waiting in the wings, possessed of the charisma and intellectual substance to devise a prospectus that would guarantee a victory at whatever date the next general election is thrust upon us, that person would deserve consideration on her or his merits.

the period beginning on 9 November 2008 and ending with the close of the day before polling day for the next general election after that date; and

But this time there is at least one thing that is different from those campaigns of the 1990s, and that is the referendum on Scottish independence in September, some eight months or so before the due date of the next UK general election.

Add to this an allocation of ministerial portfolios which left Liberal Democrats strongly invested, at least in terms of number of bodies and, importantly and often overlooked, the fact that date for the next general election was already long set, should have made for a stable administration.

That process could take a minimum of two years, with Leave campaigners suggesting during the referendum campaign that it should not be completed until 2020 - the date of the next scheduled general election.

Mr. Larimer permitted Mr. Paterson to postpone the special election until the date of the next November general election because the governor argued the state needed time to bring voting machines in the area up to federal standards.

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(a) provide a forum for members of the Party to have their say and influence the policies and platform of the Party; (b) coordinate the policy development process in all provinces and territories with a view to maintaining a current written statement of the policies of the Party (the «Party policies») that will, together with contributions from the Leader and the Caucus and subject to the approval of the Leader, form the basis for the platform of the Party for use in the next general election (the «Party platform»); (c) establish written procedures for the policy development process and publish those procedures on the public website of the Party; (d) maintain an up to date compilation of the Party policies on the public website of the Party; (e) subject to the veto in whole or in part (including a veto line by line) by the Leader, draft the Party platform and, upon its release during an election, publish the Party platform on the public website of the Party