Sentences with phrase «election pledge following»

The Government has been accused of playing politics with the issue in order to protect Mr Clegg from criticism that he had dropped a second key election pledge following his backing for a rise in university tuition fees.

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Following the 2015 election, the Liberal government abandoned pledges to run annual deficits of no more than $ 10 billion and to balance the books in four years.

Following the election of President Donald Trump, who ran on an economic platform of bring back manufacturing jobs that had been sent from the U.S. to points overseas and pledged to «Make America Great Again,» more attention has been paid to the offshoring trends that have permeated the economy for a generation.

O'Flynn's blistering attack followed Farage's decision to renege on his pre-election pledge to stand down as Ukip leader if he failed to win South Thanet in last week's general election.

The incident took place at the Great Thurlow hunt following days of speculation about whether Theresa May will abandon her general election pledge to grant MPs a free vote on whether to overturn the foxhunting ban.

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.

«As such, a reasonable solution is the following: Both sides will pledge to come together to win [two special elections coming next year].

Conservative candidates in the European elections in June 2009 are being required to sign up to the following pledge:

Following pledges by all three major parties to reform the Lords at the last general election, the Electoral Reform Society said parliamentarians had «squandered consensus, in the name of cheap point scoring and political games».

Going into the elections, the organization NY Uprising asked all candidates to sign a pledge to support nonpartisan redistricting during the following legislative session.

He told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme: «What I have done following Michael Howard's election is to pledge a # 2m fighting fund to go directly into the marginals, into the constituencies that we have to win in order to significantly reduce [Labour's] majority at the next election or even go for the win.»

Following Clarke's comments yesterday, George Osborne, the shadow chancellor whose pledge on inheritance tax is believed to have persuaded Brown to abandon an early general election in the autumn of 2007, embarked on a damage limitation operation.

After calm returned to the hall, each of the candidates in unequivocal terms condemned the question and the act that followed and pledged their commitment at maintaining law and order ahead of election.

Standing last week before a legislature that appears to have become more conservative following the fall elections, Gov. Janet Napolitano, a Democrat, pledged not to increase taxes and admonished the lawmakers that «we can not let education be paralyzed by politics.»

The coalition document confirms many other Conservative election pledges, including promises to allow state schools to offer the iGCSE favoured by some independent schools, to «review» the national schools tests (Sats) and to create «Technical Academies», where students can follow vocational courses from the age of 14.

Upon the removal of the current Board and election of BVF's nominees, subject to the nominees» fiduciary duties, BVF pledges the following:

Citizens could pledge money on an escrow basis so that it only gets sent to the candidate if they follow through on their election promises.