Sentences with phrase «election manifesto pledge»

Although many lawyers were disparaging of last year's Conservative election manifesto pledge to integrate the SFO into the National Crime Agency, Osofsky was not.

Labour's election manifesto pledge to do away with tuition fees at a cost of # 9.5 bn played a huge part in boosting support for Jeremy Corbyn among young voters

Many will remember reading the election manifesto pledge and the Prime Minister made clear the need for a «Sovereignty Bill», the purpose of which is to restrain «unaccountable judges».

Theresa May will reportedly abandon her Conservative general election manifesto pledge to give MPs a free vote on whether to overturn the foxhunting ban.

Michael Gove is facing demands from Labour to explain whether the government has abandoned a Conservative general election manifesto pledge to give MPs a free vote on whether to overturn the foxhunting ban.

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.

Rather brilliantly, Harold Wilson had pledged in his 1974 election manifesto to renegotiate the terms of Britain's membership and then hold a referendum.

The Labour Party first pledged itself to a Freedom of Information Act in its 1974 election manifesto, but the precarious positions of the Wilson and Callaghan governments made progress impossible.

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 bill was a key Conservative manifesto pledge in the run - up to the general election.

This has continued since the election as the Liberals have sacrificed many of the manifesto pledges that they used to pose themselves to the left of the Labour Party, such as the scrapping of Trident, proportional representation, an amnesty for illegal immigrants and opposition to nuclear power — the latter on which it will now abstain in any parliamentary votes rather than oppose it as its manifesto had stated.

With a coalition on the cards again for the next government, a capacity to compromise on, and in some cases jettison, manifesto and election pledges will play an important role in any negotiations.

Certainly all three main parties went into the last general election with manifesto pledges to reform the upper house.

The Conservatives are set to woo countryside voters by pledging to introduce «shire deals» for local authorities in their general election manifesto.

Labour is to fight the election on a manifesto pledging to offer jobs but cut long - term benefits to anyone who has been unemployed for more than two years.

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.

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.

Liberal Democrats, Labour and the Green Party have all pledged to follow the vInspired lead and will deliver five election promises for young people on Twitter, as part of their manifestos; so groundwork has been made.

We hope that, following the outcry during the election campaign, Theresa May has now abandoned the manifesto pledge for a free vote on repeal of the Hunting Act.

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.»

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.

As the fall out from last week's tuition fee vote continued, Tim Farron, the Lib Dem president and possible future leadership challenger, raised eyebrows by claiming a pledge to abolish the fees in some form could still feature in his party's next election manifesto.

Plaid Cymru has unveiled its general election manifesto and pledged to be a «very real alternative» to what it claimed was the austerity consensus from Westminster.

Plaid Cymru unveils its election manifesto and pledges to be a «very real alternative» to the austerity of Westminster.

The Conservatives had pledged to restore weekly bin collections in their manifesto before the 2010 general election.

The party's election manifesto will contain a pledge to stop companies that are designated «strategic» or part of the national interest being bought by foreign firms, unless two - thirds of shareholders agree.

In their 2005 election manifesto, he introduced a pledge to ban smoking in all places where food was served.

Labour launches its general election manifesto with pledges to reduce the deficit and bring down debt.

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.

Instead, reformers are meant to be cheered that at least Labour's next manifesto will now include not only the detailed Lords reform plan contained in that draft bill but also a pledge for a referendum on the alternative vote system of election for the Commons.

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.

Clegg, whose political reputation never recovered from his party's support for a rise in higher education tuition fees in contradiction to a Lib Dem manifesto pledge before the general election, said: «This is a breach that is entirely of their own making.

If abandoned, the plans will be the latest Tory manifesto pledge scrapped in the wake of the snap election in June.

Tony Blair, who expressed unease in early 2005 about a «hybrid» house with elected and appointed members, pledged in the Labour manifesto for that year's general election to remove the remaining hereditary peers and to «allow a free vote on the composition of the house».

Ed Miliband, pictured arriving in Manchester ahead of the manifesto launch, will today pledge to cut the deficit every year if Labour wins the election

Language enthusiasts will also watch to see if Ms Morgan sticks to an election pledge, though not part of the manifesto, that a future Conservative government would «guarantee the future» of GCSEs and A-levels in minority languages such as Turkish, Polish and Bengali.

This is a change from the 2015 Conservatives» manifesto which pledged to open 500 new free schools over the course of the 2015 - 20 parliament — a target the government looked set to miss before the election was called.

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.

Carbon Brief also produced manifesto grids which summarised the energy and climate policies being pledged in the elections in France and Germany.