Sentences with phrase «immediate election»

I suggest instead the sanction of an immediate election if the target is not met.

Yet, the longer the West tries to back Mubarak to manage an orderly transition and to avoid an immediate election in which the Islamists come out as dominant force, the more it spins itself a Gordian knot that may prove impossible to cut in the future.

Instead of an immediate election, it might be possible for Nick Clegg to offer to form a government, with either Labour or the Conservatives as the junior partner.

One senior minister said that if Brown survived there was no chance of an election before next spring but, «if we remove him and somebody else takes over, then clearly you would want to have an immediate election».

He urged the Prime Minister, whom he accused of treating people like fools, to call an immediate election, as he set out the Tory programme on tax, the family, schools and the NHS.

Mr McDonnell was asked if he felt he should call an immediate election if he won - given that it would signal a sharp change of direction: «My view is like this,» he said, «I think there needs to be a period of time in which you can demonstrate what you're doing and what you want to do, and then go to the electorate yourself.»

But if there is not to be an immediate election, the parties must act quickly to purge their ranks.