Sentences with phrase «of electoral pacts»

It's time to stop the puffing of electoral pacts and hints of eventual mergers, and accept that the Coalition is a short - term and not a long - term arrangement: a specific deal meeting specific needs, that's delivering a great deal of good and which should last the full course of this Parliament.

Zac Goldsmith's decision to resign as a Tory MP and contest his Richmond Park seat in a by - election as an independent, in protest at the government's decision to build a third Heathrow runway, has raised the thorny issue of electoral pacts.

UKIP has been making in - roads into the Conservative vote, and some on both sides are talking of electoral pacts to stop the political left taking advantage of a split right - of - centre vote.

UKIP has been making in - roads into Conservative votes, and some on both sides are talking of electoral pacts to stop the political left taking advantage of a split right - of - centre vote.

• Nick Clegg firmly ruled out the prospect of an electoral pact with the Conservatives at the next election.

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Norman Tebbit said the result was a product of the Tories» core vote «kicking back» while Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan called for a limited electoral pact between his party and Ukip.

So, as the next election date hoves into view the pressure to have an electoral pact would be immense — especially in the face of a resurgent Labour Party.

The inevitable logic of an entrenched coalition is a future electoral agreemnt or pact between the two parties!

Nick Boles MP, a one - time Cameroon confidante tipped for promotion, formally introduced the possibility of a Tory - Lib Dem electoral pact, it made a few cursory headlines and then David Cameron and Nick Clegg promptly denied any such intention.

«60 % of Tory members think pact with UKIP will help Tories win next election Main «Yesterday, the Conservative Party suffered its worst single electoral setback since Black Wednesday».

These include proportional representation, which the left and the party generally are divided on, and for which, as indicated by the 2011 alternative vote fiasco, there is little public support, but it is linked to the proposal for an electoral pact with some of the smaller parties, and for that reason needs to be considered well before the election, as does the issue of winning back the Labour vote in Scotland, or at least starting to.

His comments are likely to disappoint some of his colleagues on the frontbench, who have previously called for such electoral pacts.

Nick Boles, the «modernising» Tory MP for Grantham and Stamford who is a close friend and ally of the Prime Minister, went public on 13 September with a proposal that would bind the two parties in an electoral pact by the end of the year.

While the other party leaders grapple with their own futures — Mr Clegg to hold on to his leadership; Mr Miliband to ponder whether he needs to adapt his «no risk» strategy to get into Number Ten; and Mr Cameron to try to deliver progress on EU reform sooner rather than later and to head off calls for an electoral pact with UKIP — Mr Farage has the luxury of planning his next steps while momentum is on his side.

Some of the wilder talk about electoral pacts was sparked by the Prime Minister's ambiguous early remarks wishing the Liberal Democrats well.

Conservative Chairman Sayeeda Warsi has refused to rule out electoral co-operation and a recent ConHome poll of Tory members found that 35 % were wholly opposed to a limited non-aggression pact in Lib / Con marginals.

Mr Boles urges a limited electoral pact between the Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties or, he fears, the chances of a split are «overwhelming».

Tactically, it means there is no longer a large group of centrist MPs who might be open to being folded into an electoral pact — as the former Liberal Party agreed to with the SDP, running as the Alliance.

Nat le Roux argues that a one - off electoral reform pact between Labour and some or all of the minor parties in 2020, with a common manifesto commitment to introduce a new voting system, would likely result in a broad - left coalition government.

This may be a thesis too far for many Conservative and LibDem MPs as Boles wants their parties to agree to an electoral pact well in advance of the next general election.

These sorts of distortion can be caused by several factors, including tactical voting (as perhaps in Birmingham), electoral pacts (as perhaps in North East Lincolnshire), one party piling up votes in safe seats but losing out in marginals (as in Leeds), or turnout being particularly low in one party's safe seats (as in Sefton).

If voters strongly associate a small party with one of the major parties — and an electoral pact or formal call for tactical voting would be a clear signal — they will believe a vote for the small party is effectively a vote for a government led by its proximate major party.

An electoral pact could encourage Labour and Green supporters to vote tactically for the party in Conservative - Lib Dem marginals in the south of England, boosting its prospects.

On the moderate wing of the UUP, she was critical of the party's electoral pact with the DUP [3] and with Unionist demonstrations at Belfast's Saint Anne's Cathedral [4] against the Anglo - Irish Agreement.

A Conservative MP is suggesting an electoral pact with UKIP ahead of the 2015 general election, to prevent a spit in the «small c Conservative vote».

The formation of the SDP wasn't a Sudden thing, at the last stages of talks, Roy Jenkins had approached David Steel, to see if he could join the Liberal party, both had come to the conclusion if Michael Foot did win the leadership, for there to be a breakaway party, and Jenkins would be in more of a position to take one tenth of the CLP with him, and form an electoral pact, followed by a merger years later, of which would really be a take over.

A one - off electoral pact with some or all of these parties would likely result in a broad - left coalition government.

Tactical union: David Cameron swayed sceptical Tories by revealing Gordon brown's plans to concede electoral reform as the price of a Lib - Lab pact

Cameron divulged that Gordon Brown was intent on offering the Liberal Democrats the guarantee of electoral reform in return for a Lib / Lab pact.

He said there was «no prospect» of a coalition or electoral pact with Corbyn's party.

It is why Michael Fabricant MP said the unsayable this week by talking of Conservative electoral pacts with UKIP.

I'll explain in detail next week why this is so, both from the Conservative and Liberal Democrat points of view, and why it's an error to presume that the only options at the next election are the status quo or an electoral pact.

An electoral alliance may take the form of a bipartisan electoral agreement, electoral pact electoral agreement, electoral coalition or electoral bloc.