Sentences with phrase «election manifesto after»

The new year started with the Green party announcing a universal, non-means tested weekly payment of # 72 to every British adult as its flagship economic policy, only to drop it this week from the party election manifesto after the programme's costing failed to withstand rigorous scrutiny.

Not exact matches

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

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.

I suppose after the Tories misled voters at the general election with a manifesto that could be filed on the fiction shelf, impersonation is an obvious principle - free option for Conservatives without scruples.

This would be 12 days after the election, by which time deals will have been done, manifestos compromised, and patronage promised.»

We're hoping our crowd - sourced discussions can feed into that process and help influence the party manifestos for implementation after May's General Election

After what has thus far been an excruciatingly bad Tory election campaign yesterday's manifesto launch was effective, professional and uplifting.

But sources close to Miliband confirm that they intended to implement the plan after the 2015 election but had been hoping to keep it secret apart from a vague commitment in the 2015 manifesto to the reform of political funding.

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.

It is an ineluctable fact: poll after poll has shown that most Britons are strongly against the expansion of the EU's power - and an even greater majority demand the referendum promised by all three main parties in their manifestos at the last General Election.

Ed Miliband, who wrote the manifesto, junked the whole lot until after the leadership election.

The Flagbearer of the Progressive People's Party, (PPP), Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, says successive governments have under - performed largely because Ghanaians have failed to critically and objectively examine manifestos of political parties after they win elections.

[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.

The former minister's proposal is likely to be rejected outright by Conservative ministers, after the party pledged to protect payments to older people in their 2010 general election manifesto.

After the prime minister's social care u-turn, Neil did not pull any punches, most notably by stating: «This must be the first time in modern political history that a party has broken a manifesto pledge before an election.»

«Right after the the congress, we will launch our campaign team for the 2016 elections, we will unveil pour manifesto and our vision for 2016 and if everything goes well, we will hold a press conference and tell the whole world what the NDP is about and we will unveil our vision to capture political power in 2016».

After all, the party's election manifesto declared: «If spending is cut too soon, it would undermine the much - needed recovery and cost jobs».

After a general election we would see unseemly horse trading between parties, with manifesto promises and campaign commitments being jettisoned.

The referendum was called after Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron made a manifesto commitment in the 2015 UK general election to undertake a renegotiation of the UK's membership to the European Union which would be followed by a in - out referendum.

The launch comes three weeks after thousands of party supporters gathered at the Sunyani Coronation park in the Brong Ahafo region to witness the launch of the main election manifesto document.

The Child Trust Fund scheme was promised in the Labour Party's 2001 election manifesto [3] and launched in January 2005, with children born on or after 1 September 2002 eligible.

The Lib Dem vote collapsed in the 2015 general election, after the party joined the Conservatives in coalition and broke a manifesto pledge not to increase tuition fees.

The chancellor has been under pressure to soften cuts pencilled in by Osborne after last year's general election, as he sought to meet the Conservatives» manifesto pledge to slice # 12bn from the cost of the welfare state.

Now make that three Labour ministers caught doing so just hours after the Labour Party launched its election manifesto telling us all how quickly and decisively the present Labour government had acted to clean up the parliamentary expenses scandal.

He is expected to pledge in the Tory manifesto for the 2015 general election that he would hold a referendum after using the next major EU treaty negotiations, which are likely to endorse moves towards a fiscal union for the eurozone, to repatriate social and employment laws to Britain.

Labour pledged a referendum on electoral reform in its 1997 election manifesto but the idea was kicked into the long grass by Tony Blair after his landslide victory.

He became close to Harold Wilson after Wilson had been elected as party leader, and was the main author of the Labour Party manifesto for the 1964 general election.

Labour's Scottish election campaign has suffered an additional setback after the manifesto was produced without costings, and has had to undergo a comprehensive rewrite.»

Scrapping the ban on opening new selective schools was a key pledge in the Conservative manifesto for this month's general election, but after failing to secure a working majority the party's pledge looks set to be dropped.

From the introduction to the POLICY MAKING MANIFESTO «We have entered what some refer to as a «post-factual» era of democracy — particularly after the Brexit vote and the Trump win in the US election.