Sentences with phrase «electoral pacts»

It is why Michael Fabricant MP said the unsayable this week by talking of Conservative electoral pacts with UKIP.

This could even entail electoral pacts in some constituencies.

Lewis also wants to see Labour forming progressive alliances or electoral pacts with other parties across the left including the Greens, Liberal Democrats and SNP.

These sorts of distortion can be caused by several factors, including tactical voting (as perhaps in Birmingham), electoral pacts (as perhaps in North East Lincolnshire), one party piling up votes in safe seats but losing out in marginals (as in Leeds), or turnout being particularly low in one party's safe seats (as in Sefton).

Some of the wilder talk about electoral pacts was sparked by the Prime Minister's ambiguous early remarks wishing the Liberal Democrats well.

It's time to stop the puffing of electoral pacts and hints of eventual mergers, and accept that the Coalition is a short - term and not a long - term arrangement: a specific deal meeting specific needs, that's delivering a great deal of good and which should last the full course of this Parliament.

He insisted that the process for uniting progressives had to be «organic» at the outset, with no electoral pacts.

Zac Goldsmith's decision to resign as a Tory MP and contest his Richmond Park seat in a by - election as an independent, in protest at the government's decision to build a third Heathrow runway, has raised the thorny issue of electoral pacts.

UKIP has been making in - roads into the Conservative vote, and some on both sides are talking of electoral pacts to stop the political left taking advantage of a split right - of - centre vote.

His comments are likely to disappoint some of his colleagues on the frontbench, who have previously called for such electoral pacts.

UKIP has been making in - roads into Conservative votes, and some on both sides are talking of electoral pacts to stop the political left taking advantage of a split right - of - centre vote.

Ideally, the Lib Dems would seek English electoral pacts wherever possible, and likewise in Scotland and Wales.

Norman Tebbit said the result was a product of the Tories» core vote «kicking back» while Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan called for a limited electoral pact between his party and Ukip.

Quite the opposite: the same voices which told Cameron that an in - out EU referendum would neutralise Ukip are now calling for an electoral pact with the party or to adopt tougher positions on welfare and immigration.

But if the opposition parties are stupid enough to walk into what May hopes is her trap, make sure it snaps shut on her by an electoral pact to oust the Tories.

If the Co-operative Party were to disaffiliate from Labour and run on its own, I'd consider joining it immediately, and would definitely argue for an electoral pact until we reform the electoral system.

So, as the next election date hoves into view the pressure to have an electoral pact would be immense — especially in the face of a resurgent Labour Party.

Furthermore, given their widely discredited status, it seems unlikely that forming an electoral pact with the Liberals would provide a winning political strategy for Labour.

The Co-operative Party has an electoral pact with the Labour Party but is technically distinct from it.

Nick Boles MP, a one - time Cameroon confidante tipped for promotion, formally introduced the possibility of a Tory - Lib Dem electoral pact, it made a few cursory headlines and then David Cameron and Nick Clegg promptly denied any such intention.

Ruling out an electoral pact with the Tories at the next election, he said: «Voters tell politicians what they want through the ballot box.

These include proportional representation, which the left and the party generally are divided on, and for which, as indicated by the 2011 alternative vote fiasco, there is little public support, but it is linked to the proposal for an electoral pact with some of the smaller parties, and for that reason needs to be considered well before the election, as does the issue of winning back the Labour vote in Scotland, or at least starting to.

Lord Pearson said that none had asked for UKIP's help - although I suggested in February that David Drew's attendance at a UKIP dinner meant that an electoral pact was on the cards.

2: A cross party electoral pact is emerging that could make securing long overdue electoral reform central to any future coalition government agreement.

Nick Boles, the «modernising» Tory MP for Grantham and Stamford who is a close friend and ally of the Prime Minister, went public on 13 September with a proposal that would bind the two parties in an electoral pact by the end of the year.

Since 1927, the Co-operative Party has had an electoral pact with the Labour Party, with both parties agreeing not to stand candidates against each other.

While the other party leaders grapple with their own futures — Mr Clegg to hold on to his leadership; Mr Miliband to ponder whether he needs to adapt his «no risk» strategy to get into Number Ten; and Mr Cameron to try to deliver progress on EU reform sooner rather than later and to head off calls for an electoral pact with UKIP — Mr Farage has the luxury of planning his next steps while momentum is on his side.

Mr Boles urges a limited electoral pact between the Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties or, he fears, the chances of a split are «overwhelming».

«The Coalition should prepare for extreme unpopularity and govern as if it only has one term Main Why an electoral pact between the Coalition partners isn't as simple as it may seem to be»

An attempt at a limited electoral pact broke down in this constituency.

Tactically, it means there is no longer a large group of centrist MPs who might be open to being folded into an electoral pact — as the former Liberal Party agreed to with the SDP, running as the Alliance.

The Ulster Conservatives and Unionists - New Force (UCUNF) electoral pact between the Conservatives and the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) was dissolved.

This may be a thesis too far for many Conservative and LibDem MPs as Boles wants their parties to agree to an electoral pact well in advance of the next general election.

If voters strongly associate a small party with one of the major parties — and an electoral pact or formal call for tactical voting would be a clear signal — they will believe a vote for the small party is effectively a vote for a government led by its proximate major party.

An electoral pact could encourage Labour and Green supporters to vote tactically for the party in Conservative - Lib Dem marginals in the south of England, boosting its prospects.

On the moderate wing of the UUP, she was critical of the party's electoral pact with the DUP [3] and with Unionist demonstrations at Belfast's Saint Anne's Cathedral [4] against the Anglo - Irish Agreement.

So while Tim Farron would be delighted to receive tactical votes from Labour supporters in marginal seats, he wants nothing to do with any electoral pact or «progressive alliance» that formally associates his party with Corbyn.

A Conservative MP is suggesting an electoral pact with UKIP ahead of the 2015 general election, to prevent a spit in the «small c Conservative vote».

• Nick Clegg firmly ruled out the prospect of an electoral pact with the Conservatives at the next election.

[46] 18 seats were contested in Northern Ireland, where both Irish nationalist parties, Sinn Féin and the SDLP, held their seats, the unionist UUP (in an electoral pact with the Conservatives) lost their only seat and the DUP lost a seat.

They have lost more than 130 seats, and some Eurosceptics have been renewing their call for an electoral pact with Ukip.

The formation of the SDP wasn't a Sudden thing, at the last stages of talks, Roy Jenkins had approached David Steel, to see if he could join the Liberal party, both had come to the conclusion if Michael Foot did win the leadership, for there to be a breakaway party, and Jenkins would be in more of a position to take one tenth of the CLP with him, and form an electoral pact, followed by a merger years later, of which would really be a take over.

Douglas «Kamikaze» Carswell, the upmarket MP for Clacton in Essex, is already demanding an electoral pact with Ukip, a tactic which failed the Tories in the 90s.

And it's in that tradition that Nat Le Roux's suggestion that Labour should form an anti-Tory electoral pact for 2020 is, like so many similar ideas before -LSB-...]

As far as many Ukippers are concerned, the remedy for that is in Cameron's hands: he can offer an electoral pact to them and everybody will be happy.

A one - off electoral pact with some or all of these parties would likely result in a broad - left coalition government.

He said there was «no prospect» of a coalition or electoral pact with Corbyn's party.

I'll explain in detail next week why this is so, both from the Conservative and Liberal Democrat points of view, and why it's an error to presume that the only options at the next election are the status quo or an electoral pact.

An electoral alliance may take the form of a bipartisan electoral agreement, electoral pact electoral agreement, electoral coalition or electoral bloc.

Not exact matches

The inevitable logic of an entrenched coalition is a future electoral agreemnt or pact between the two parties!