Sentences with phrase «issue of the next general election»

Labour and Lib Dems would stand united on the most important issue of the next general election.

Not exact matches

While a final decision on whether to renew Trident has been put off until 2016, the issue promises to resurface periodically between then and now — not least of all in next year's general election campaign and this year's referendum on Scottish independence.

As the next general election nears disgruntled backbenchers will do more and more to get their way on specific issues, skewing the terms of engagement more and more in their favour.

At the next general election the electorate has to be convinced on three fronts: that we understand the issues, that we will act on them if they vote for us, but also that we can prove our worth through our record of achievement in office.

The call from Joan Walley, who chairs the Commons» environmental audit committee, comes as the opposition party draws up its policy on green issues ahead of next year's general election.

The Irish Times (1st February 2017) has reported that hospital campaigners are considering running a candidate in this constituency at the next general election over the issue of cardiac services in University Hospital Waterford.

The issues raised were of great intrinsic importance, in political terms the thinkers and politicians involved were trying to lay the basis for a way forward for the Labour Party that broke with Blairism and New Labour, renewing the party's appeal to its traditional supporters and providing a credible electoral framework for the next general election.

With no party likely to win a majority of over 40 in next May's general election, the issue could prove decisive in determining its winner.

It will apparently not take place in this current Parliament, as Straw envisages final House of Lords reform being a fourth term issue — assuming there is to be a Labour fourth term — involving a manifesto commitment being endorsed at the next general election.