Sentences with phrase «manifesto pledges»

This bill was a key Conservative manifesto pledge in the run - up to the general election.

Experience of this government's broken manifesto pledge also demonstrates that 10 year targets are just not good enough.

His official spokesman said a referendum before the next poll - which was a Labour manifesto pledge - was only an «option».

The party secured agreement on key manifesto pledges around tax cuts, a pupil premium, political reform and a sustainable economy.

The income tax threshold is rising to # 10,000, following a Lib Dem manifesto pledge - though it's not a policy many Conservatives are uncomfortable about.

Should they become the norm rather than the exception, they could give parties an easy excuse for abandoning manifesto pledges and a temptation to make pledges they had little intention of keeping.

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

That's welcome progress on 2015, when neither party made specific manifesto pledges.

He shows me a file of past Conservative manifesto pledges that highlights similarities between policies then and today.

It should not be used to meet a Labour manifesto pledge to maintain overall school budgets.

And Osborne's standing with the public has plunged since the abstract manifesto pledge of «welfare cuts» was translated into specific proposals to slash tax credits for working families, and to cut the amount disabled people receive to help them dress themselves or go to the toilet.

Critics pointed out the Brexit Budget would mean breaking as many as seven Tory manifesto pledges made only 13 months ago at the general election.

Her support for a third runway at Heathrow, as part of her work with the Group, was not welcomed by environmentalists like Zac Goldsmith - especially after the Tories» 2010 manifesto pledge not to build a third runway in the present parliament.

«I am shocked that the Chancellor is threatening to break so many key manifesto pledges on which all Conservative MPs were elected,» he said.

School funding experts have broadly welcomed government proposals to overhaul early years funding and invest an extra # 1 billion so providers can deliver the Conservative party's manifesto pledge for 30 - hour free childcare.

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.

The Scottish government was re-elected last year on a specific manifesto pledge which said this: «The Scottish Parliament should have the right to hold another referendum... if there is a significant and material change in the circumstance that prevailed in 2014, such as Scotland being taken out of the EU against our will.»

The Conservative manifesto pledged in 2010 to make Royal Prerogative powers, such as the declaration of war, subject to «greater democratic control».

Clegg, whose political reputation never recovered from his party's support for a rise in higher education tuition fees in contradiction to a Lib Dem manifesto pledge before the general election, said: «This is a breach that is entirely of their own making.

The Welsh Liberal Democrat manifesto pledged to expand the Pupil Premium.

Ceferin is the only election candidate to have evinced a firm manifesto pledge to challenge the ever - increasing power of the likes of Real Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern and the Premier League billionaires.

The issue is not opposing the 50 % tax on its merits or demerits, but on opposing the tax on the basis that there is yet another Labour manifesto pledge gone.

That included a consultation on primary assessment and a U-turn on a government manifesto pledge that all children who do not achieve the required score in reading and maths at the end of primary school must resit their exams at secondary school.

While the Telegraph, which was once the most reliable of papers for the Conservatives, today posts a picture of the party's 2015 manifesto pledge alongside the headline «Tories break tax vow.»

In the run - up to the general election the Conservative party's English manifesto pledged that a Conservative government would consult the Commons Procedure Committee on its proposals before seeking approval from the whole House, and that it would pilot the new rules on «one or more» bills.

Tories should have plenty of aspirations for the next parliament borne of good ideas, but no firm commitments or manifesto pledges without looking at the books.

This is not least because the Lib Dem's original manifesto pledge, to cut carbon emissions produced by generating electricity to a specified level by 2013, has not been adhered to.

«It's all very well the Tories in Wales saying their Welsh manifesto pledges fair funding, but the idea that their Welsh manifesto trumps the UK version is nothing short of absurd.

Bear in mind that the issue here is not the «treaty» but the fact that it is a breach of trust / breaking a clear manifesto pledge.

So if (a big if, but all the same) Cameron's renegotiation secures an acceptable agreement which will return powers to Britain, the Lib Dem manifesto pledge commits them to support an in / out referendum - which is exactly the policy Nick Clegg is now opposing.

Our guess is that more political appointees in key Whitehall departments may be needed to ensure Sir Humphrey et al do not frustrate manifesto pledges.

Philip Hammond has been accused of breaking a key Tory manifesto pledge after announcing a rise in National Insurance contributions for the self - employed.

As a major manifesto pledge of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) since 2008, the government has commenced the programme which has seen only first year students entering public senior high schools for free.

If abandoned, the plans will be the latest Tory manifesto pledge scrapped in the wake of the snap election in June.

We may also see a renewed focus on early years, given the Conservative Party manifesto pledge to introduce a new capital fund to help primary schools develop nurseries where they do not currently have one.

Prime minister Theresa May omitted key education manifesto pledges from the Queen's speech today — meaning schools can expect no new major policy changes in the next two years.

Last June, Schools Week revealed nearly 2,500 «missing» language teachers were needed to meet the government's EBacc manifesto pledge.

Crucially, it meant he did not break a 2010 manifesto pledge of opposing a rise in university tuition fees; the Lib Dems never really recovered from their ministers voting for a trebling of fees.

Yet, after a broken manifesto pledge to scrap Tuition fees, this may sound like empty words to the thousands of young people across the country that will start their first year of university with fees of # 9,000 looming in front of them — leaving them indebted for years to come.

«I am shocked that the Chancellor is threatening to break so many key manifesto pledges on which all Conservative MPs were elected - I could not support these plans to cut the NHS and increase taxes on hardworking families,» Tory MP Steve Baker said.

PM will reportedly abandon election manifesto pledge to give MPs free vote on whether to overturn foxhunting ban

It follows public uproar from Conservative MPs after he appeared to break the party's 2015 manifesto pledge not to increase income tax, VAT or NI contributions.

Naturally Labour are allowed to abandon manifesto pledges.

«Rent to Own» was a Welsh Liberal Democrat manifesto pledge and formed part of the Progressive Agreement that led to Kirsty Williams joining the Welsh Government as Education Secretary.

The SNP would have to stand for Holyrood next year with that as a firm manifesto pledge, and then win the Holyrood election.

The Conservative policy was reported to have divided the shadow cabinet, but Cameron defied calls for a U-turn and confirmed that a higher tax threshold would be a firm Tory manifesto pledge - to the delight of Labour strategists.

Although the green fog of the energy performance certificate (EPC) has clouded the project, HIPs continue to be a government manifesto pledge to improve the house buying and selling process.

The Labour manifesto pledged to abolish all university tuition fees.