Sentences with phrase «increase at the next election»

We are going to see another increase at the next election.

Not exact matches

Owusu Amankwah is touted as the key man to increase the party's presidential votes from 37, 853, representing 71.41 per cent in 2012, to at least 40,000 in the next elections according to the party's estimation, and maintain the party's seat in Parliament.

This morning Baroness Altmann, who quit as pensions minister last month, said she believed the commitment to increasing by 2.5 % should be dropped at the next general election.

Ultimately therefore the decision to extend voting rights to younger people will depend on both whether Labour wins the next election and crucially whether the party sees it as advantageous to increase its vote share slightly at the expense of becoming more reliant on a coalition of disparate interests.

[21] On 27 November 2006, the Press Association reported that she had commissioned an opinion poll from YouGov which found that Harman would be the most likely potential deputy leader to increase the Labour vote at the next general election.

While our colleagues in Scotland have gone from one poor election result to the next, faced with a similar situation in 1997 the Welsh Conservatives have made significant progress, bouncing back to increase our share of the vote at each general election since and increasing our representation, taking 8 seats this year - two more than than in John Major's surprise election victory in 1992.

Always good to hear the likelihood that Labour will be ousted at the next election is increasing as PoliticsHome suggests, but I hope that we do not turn out to be the same lack of substance and abundance of spin that Blair / Brown brought to the table.

I can't see how the Torys can increase their share of the vote at the next general election without an economic miracle

«The simple truth is that Cameron needs to increase the Tory vote share at the next election if he is to secure a parliamentary majority.

Increases in child benefit will be capped at one percent until 2017, if Labour win the next general election.

No postwar prime minister has ever governed for a full term and then increased their party's share of the vote at the next general election.

The interviews given by leading Lib Dem MPs over the weekend suggest that their narrative at the next election will go something like this: «We have protected the poorest and most deserving by raising the personal tax allowance, providing the biggest ever increase in the state pension, and giving schools a «pupil premium» - more money for every child on free school meals.

It will increase the policy options that he has at the next election but will also create distance between him and the more radical thinking.

It's also worth noting that the small chance of getting in now will be even smaller next time if, as seems likely, the proportion of women is increased further before the next election in two years: although the parliamentary party settled on a quota of 31.5 % women, there was in fact a majority (of 139 to 107) for at least 40 %.

In essence, as far as the Tories are going to be concerned, the Lib Dems have increased the chances of them losing their seats at the next election.

One legacy of an expected Cameron victory at the next General Election will still be very potent, however, and that will be the «Class of 2010» — the largest increase in the number of Conservative MPs in modern times.

Does anyone think that in many safe Tory seats at the next general election (Many of which have the Lib Dems in second place) that the Conservatives will be down by less than the Lib Dems, and so there will perhaps be increased majorities in these seats as a direct result, a la 1992?

It may be hard to believe in the midst of another contentious election cycle, but the next quarter century in the United States promises to be a period of increasing moderation and stability — at least according to a little - known but compelling theory about how the ratio of available men to available women alters our lives.

Combined with the sting of the struggling economy, the new Liberal government is already facing increasing pressure to meet its election vows to cap annual deficits at $ 10 billion over the next two years and to balance the federal books in the fourth year of its mandate.