Sentences with phrase «electoral pacts with»

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

Plaid is certain to be reluctant to enter a coalition once more after their electoral beating this time round, while a Labour pact with the Tories is highly unlikely.

«60 % of Tory members think pact with UKIP will help Tories win next election Main «Yesterday, the Conservative Party suffered its worst single electoral setback since Black Wednesday».

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.

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

The original Southern Discomfort research allowed a new electoral approach to disguise a non-aggression pact with capital.

His party would justify a pact with the devil to secure electoral reform.

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.

Nat le Roux argues that a one - off electoral reform pact between Labour and some or all of the minor parties in 2020, with a common manifesto commitment to introduce a new voting system, would likely result in a broad - left coalition government.

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.

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.

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.