Sentences with phrase «last election our manifesto»

Mr Cameron said: «Labour's last election manifesto could not have been clearer on the EU constitution.

At the last election our manifesto commitment on tax was to take the poorest taxpayers out of paying tax altogether, so that nobody...

At the last election our manifesto commitment on tax was to take the poorest taxpayers out of paying tax altogether, so that nobody would pay income tax on earnings below # 10,000.

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He noted that neither Labour nor the Conservatives had mentioned the «M» word in their respective manifestos at the last general election.

The last Labour government was able to plan its 1997 manifesto on the basis of rising departmental spending in the first years after the election.

This hews consistently with Cameron's political manifesto presented last election: that the Conservative Party would seek to renegotiate Britain's EU membership and hold a referendum by the end of 2017.

The APC on Sunday served notice it will sue the NPP for plagiarising its 2016 election manifesto, which was launched last Thursday in Accra.

Harper believes that Miliband, who wrote the Labour manifesto for the last general election which committed the party to House of Lords reform, is playing a duplicitous game, he told the Guardian.

Certainly all three main parties went into the last general election with manifesto pledges to reform the upper house.

It is an ineluctable fact: poll after poll has shown that most Britons are strongly against the expansion of the EU's power - and an even greater majority demand the referendum promised by all three main parties in their manifestos at the last General Election.

One of the books that followed mine was a manifesto for the last election by Neil Boorman entitled It's All Their Fault.

In its manifesto for last week's local elections, the BNP said its councillors would «seek a local referendum asking parents for their backing for a local prohibition on the teaching of homosexuality as an alternative lifestyle choice».

As the fall out from last week's tuition fee vote continued, Tim Farron, the Lib Dem president and possible future leadership challenger, raised eyebrows by claiming a pledge to abolish the fees in some form could still feature in his party's next election manifesto.

April 2005: Labour launches its election manifesto, which proposes a review of the powers of the House of Lords, with the last hereditary peers removed and MPs given a free vote on whether to elect some peers.

In September last year, Miliband was threatening to cap donations to all political parties at # 5,000 as part of its election manifesto.

Arising from the issues outlined above, among others, we request for an urgent meeting with the Leader of the party, and the Party Executive leadership to find lasting solutions to the issues raised so as to prepare the party as a fighting force to deliver more pungently on its manifesto and face the 2019 General Elections with even greater commitment.

«At the last election, all political parties put forward in their manifestos proposals for a partly or mainly elected House of Lords.

And at the last general election, reforming the House of Lords was included in the Labour manifesto by its author, Ed Miliband.

The promise was also used to persuade Eurosceptics to vote Conservative at the election last year, and it featured prominently in the manifesto.

It's incredible because all three parties committed in their manifestos before the last election that they would do just this and finish reform of the Lords left unfinished by Blair.

The chancellor has been under pressure to soften cuts pencilled in by Osborne after last year's general election, as he sought to meet the Conservatives» manifesto pledge to slice # 12bn from the cost of the welfare state.

It is an uncanny echo of Labour's general election campaign last year which started with a manifesto launch focusing on fiscal discipline and ended with the party forced onto health to ensure its increasingly angry and aggrieved base remained mobilised.

They all said so in their manifestos at the last election.

However, her slick performance on the podium at the Ukip manifesto launch belies a particularly high - profile gaffe in the wake of last year's local election results when she blamed London's «more media - savvy and educated» population for the party's lack of success in the capital.

JON SOPEL: Now you went into the last election, the Labour Party did with a very clear manifesto and unless I'm very much mistaken I don't think there was any reference to nationalising key parts of the industrial and financial sectors, getting rid of nuclear weapons, slashing defence spending and higher tax rates for the better off?

Although many lawyers were disparaging of last year's Conservative election manifesto pledge to integrate the SFO into the National Crime Agency, Osofsky was not.