Sentences with phrase «new election manifesto»

The incident overshadowed the unveiling of Labour's new election manifesto.

Not exact matches

FI joins call for new deal for dads in election manifestos The Fatherhood Institute has joined a coalition of charities and trade unions, to call on the UK's political parties to include policies aimed at promoting involved fatherhood in their election manifestos.

The new year started with the Green party announcing a universal, non-means tested weekly payment of # 72 to every British adult as its flagship economic policy, only to drop it this week from the party election manifesto after the programme's costing failed to withstand rigorous scrutiny.

The presentation of manifestos does not play a major role in winning an election because most electorate will not read them, Deputy General Secretary of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) Nana Obiri Boahen has said.

The 1997 General Election Labour Party manifesto was entitled «new Labour because Britain deserves better».

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) in its 2016 manifesto promised to «oversee the direct election of Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) within 24 months of election into office, to coincide with the next District Assembly elections in 2019.»

Welcome to this new section of ConservativeHome - FutureConservatism.com - where I'll be setting out the kind of electoral manifesto and machine that can help give David Cameron a majority at the next election.

In 2008, none of the political parties had issued its manifesto for study and scrutiny by the electorates at the apogee of the elections i.e. the New Patriotic Party (NPP), the National Democratic Congress (NDC), the Convention Peoples Party (CPP), the Peoples National Convention (PNC) and the Democratic Freedom Party (DFP).

The ruling New Patriotic Party also touched on providing a similar scheme in its manifesto under Creative Arts at cited on page 171 Chapter 17 Section III during the 2016 general elections.

Every press release featured an earnest - looking photograph of Mr Kennedy - in the style of the Tony Blair shot which appeared on Labour's election manifesto - under the slogan «A new leader for new times».

She assured that as the Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, she would play her role of delivering on the New Patriotic Party's (NPP) manifesto promise on behalf of the government by guiding the processes and activities leading to the election of MMDCEs on partisan basis in Ghana.

«Shadow transport secretary Theresa Villiers said this week that the Conservatives will back the development of new high speed rail lines in their election manifesto... «I am working hard on proposals to take high speed rail forward in this country to see if we can't at least start to catch up with countries like France and to deal with the capacity problems on our network,» she said.»

Officials of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) on Sunday, October 10, launched the party's 2016 manifesto, barely two months to the general elections on December 7.

«We must examine critically the track records and manifestoes of the contending parties before we make our choices in the election,» he said in a New Year message to Ghanaians.

«Before the next election — when we know the circumstances we will face — we will set out for our manifesto tough new fiscal rules to get our country's current budget back to balance and national debt on a downward path.

Some critics from the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) have gone as far as alleging that, the NDC is only delaying its manifesto launch in a bid to incorporate some of the NPP's policies and programmes ahead of the election.

Writing a New Labour election manifesto is easy.

This was terribly unfair as, although we had done a U-turn on our election manifesto promise, the new deal was actually going to be a lot better and fairer for students.

The New Patriotic Party in the election manifesto said, the office will «be independent of the Executive, to investigate and prosecute certain categories of cases and allegations of corruption and other criminal wrongdoing, including those involving alleged violations of the Public Procurement Act and cases implicating political officeholders and politicians.»

At the February 1974 general election, Labour's manifesto promised renegotiation of Britain's terms of membership, to be followed by a consultative referendum on continued membership under the new terms if they were acceptable.

This is a change from the 2015 Conservatives» manifesto which pledged to open 500 new free schools over the course of the 2015 - 20 parliament — a target the government looked set to miss before the election was called.

Scrapping the ban on opening new selective schools was a key pledge in the Conservative manifesto for this month's general election, but after failing to secure a working majority the party's pledge looks set to be dropped.

The new government stood for election with tourism highlighted in its manifesto and since Uhuru Kenyatta's inauguration, commitments have been made to increase the intensity of Kenya's tourism marketing activity, to double the number of tourists to three million a year and to provide incentives to encourage investment in tourist accommodation.

At their national convention on 20 - 23 April 2017, the Norwegian Labour Party (Arbeiderpartiet) will discuss and — if there is support — adopt a draft decision for its 2017 election manifesto that proposes Norway initiate and pursue a new legally - binding instrument «to regulate the development and use of fully and semi-autonomous weapons systems and other new technology that could challenge the fundamental principles of the law of war.»