Sentences with phrase «election manifesto not»

Not exact matches

Mr Alexander said his party would start campaigning for change immediately and if it couldn't convince its Conservative coalition partners it would made a manifesto pledge ahead of the next General Election.

So it's rather disappointing to report that when it comes to their manifesto (pdf), the election's likely kingmakers do not have anything to say about football.

It will be difficult to construct election manifestos or advocate policies if parties can not be sure of delivery, either because of the performance of smaller parties in Scotland, or because, depending on the make - up of English MPs, such policies may be vetoed in the south.

The Labour manifesto for the 2010 general election again reiterated support for the third runway subject to environmental conditions, but added that the party «will not allow additional runways to proceed at any other airport in the next Parliament.»

Speaking at the Launch of an election task - force in the Volta Region, Mr John Asiedu Nketiah aka General Mosquito, dismissed claims that the NDC delayed its manifesto launch to steal ideas from the NPP, adding that the party doesn't steal from losers.

The largest opposition party has stated that it is not in a hurry to launch its 2016 manifesto ahead of the December general elections to avoid the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) plagiarising their ideas.

They will be duty bound to push for their manifesto commitments and although the Liberal Democrats argue that they would help reign in Labour profligacy, it is hard to imagine they would force a second election because public spending cuts are not deep enough.

Some MPs and Party members fear that David Cameron doesn't really want progress on this front at all, because he's hoping for a joint Coalition front at the next election, and therefore a joint manifesto with the Liberal Democrats.

If it did, conference could not change anything from the 2015 manifesto till just before the 2020 election.

Unsurprisingly, constitutional reform does not figure prominently in the party manifestos for the May general election.

The presentation of manifestos does not play a major role in winning an election because most electorate will not read them, Deputy General Secretary of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) Nana Obiri Boahen has said.

In 2008 Harriet Harman — surely the most influential militant feminist politician of her generation — introduced a piece of legislation which hadn't been trailed in the Labour party's 2005 election manifesto.

I'm just saying that saying that the Lib Dems have gone against a lot of their manifesto is both a trivial and meaningless point to make: the Lib Dems didn't win the election, and in other very similar circumstances, the Lib Dems would be getting * absolutely none * of their campaign pledges enacted, as opposed to the limited quantity now.

This prompted fears that services the public takes for granted could be hit, [91] and concern that the Conservative Party had not explained the policy clearly in its manifesto before the 2015 election.

During the 2010 election, it was he who famously admitted that he had not actually read all of his party's manifesto.

The Conservative manifesto for the 2015 general election contained a promise not to raise income tax, VAT, or national insurance for the duration of the parliament.

In an unusually frank passage, this year's Conservative general election manifesto made clear that House of Lords reform «is not a priority in this parliament».

I think you have confirmed my interpretation that he is saying, in effect, «Labour policy is okay for an election manifesto but not okay for governing».

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.

Alexander told BBC Radio 4's The World at One: «Nick Clegg has made clear, and I share this view, that Lord Rennard will not have a role in the election campaign or in drawing up the election manifesto.

The state government is not empowered by any section of the APC constitution or manifesto to schedule modalities for the conduct of intra-party elections in our party.»

Reacting to the report today, the Communication Workers Union (CWU) accused the government of initiating a privatisation agenda when it spoecifically promised not to do so in its election manifesto - a point made also by the Conservatives.

We didn't lose the election because our policies weren't good enough or because our manifesto wasn't long enough.

Theresa May ran for election not on a manifesto, or a Brexit plan or even as a party leader.

All three of Westminster's mainstream parties supported such a move in their 2010 general election manifestos and will not stand in the way of the bill as it progresses through the Commons.

As he launched Labour's election manifesto, Miliband said Labour would not promise anything it could not fund.

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.»

One problem which could emerge is that, despite the «invitation to join the government of Britain» emblazoned on the front cover of the Conservative party's election manifesto, many people won't bother turning up at all.

Mr Cameron said: «Labour's last election manifesto could not have been clearer on the EU constitution.

Ukip leader Paul Nuttall said his party would launch its general election manifesto tomorrow because Britain can not «allow our way of life to be undermined» by terrorists.

While climate change scepticism is not official party policy, the words «environment» and «climate change» do not appear in the DUP's 2017 general election manifesto.

«The Conservative election manifesto said that we don't need to have profit at the moment, the Liberal Democrat manifesto said that we don't need profit at the moment and we don't.»

Stephen Byers, holder of the honorary post of Blairite Outrider, condemned it for breaking a manifesto pledge not to raise income tax rates — because it would come in just before the expected date of the next election.

«Shadow transport secretary Theresa Villiers said this week that the Conservatives will back the development of new high speed rail lines in their election manifesto... «I am working hard on proposals to take high speed rail forward in this country to see if we can't at least start to catch up with countries like France and to deal with the capacity problems on our network,» she said.»

[2] Despite the research carried out by the Jenkins Commission in 1998 suggesting an AV + system for Westminster elections, the 2001 manifesto did not make such a promise.

Tory lite policies in 2010 and 2015 (lol) Even if this was true we still did better in those elections that when we had hard left manifestos like 1983 (27.2 % Tory MJority of 144) and it wasn't just the SDP or the Falklands, as if the SDP didn't exist, those people would just have voted liberal, who as a party were around before labour were, so had a right to stand

Columnist Priti Patel: «In the build up to the next general election and the formation of our manifesto, as a Party we should not be afraid to continue to debate Europe.»

They remain torn between the demands of a shadow treasury team (which includes Shabana Mahmood, the previous universities spokesperson) who are eager not to be seen to make unaffordable promises and a political opportunity to put a radical offer on tuition fees at the centre of the Labour election manifesto.

Even the government of the day can not involve the civil service formally in manifesto preparation for the next parliament, as I remember from my time as a special adviser prior to the 2010 general election.

The issue has not gone away, however, and in the run up to the 2015 election, parties gave space in their manifestos to the need for change.

Because if June's election taught us one thing, it's that if we stand behind Jeremy's principled leadership, if we stand united as a Party, and if we stand on a radical manifesto, there is absolutely no seat that we can't win.

But the Conservative manifesto ahead of the 2015 election promised that NICs would not rise as part of a five - year «tax lock».

The Chief of Staff slammed other political parties for not producing their manifestos a few weeks to the crucial elections.

The former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, also said the Nigerian electorate should not vote for the APC or the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in future elections, because neither can boost of any manifesto or policies that would impart positively on the lives of the people.

The lesson from the election manifesto is that punishing the old is not a sensible way to attract younger voters, but is a recipe for losing support of older generations.

However, senior Labour sources made it clear the party was not in favour of renationalisation, signalling that the leadership was prepared to ignore the motions in its election manifesto.

The Lib Dems rebuffed Brown's February 2010 suggestion in public — not least because an election was coming, and electoral reform is a major plank of the Lib Dem manifesto that they do not want to cede to a Labour government.

Yet despite all the problems - not least the most accident - prone manifesto launch in history, complete with deputy prime minister John Prescott punching a voter - Labour won a second successive landslide election victory.

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.

Given the libertarian coup d'etat that Mr Clegg carried out in ditching the official LibDem manifesto and writing whole swathes of the Orange Book into the Coalition Agreement which his own party had previously massively rejected, Nick Clegg can not be really very surprised that the rasberry he got in the local elections and AV vote is going to be reflected within Westminster machine as well.