Sentences with phrase «party at the next election»

Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg announced his party's intention to block boundary changes, thought to be worth around 20 MPs to the Tory party at the next election, as a direct response to the failure of his plans to make the Lords reform a mainly elected second chamber.

Only just over half (52 %) of Conservative defectors to UKIP, and only 60 % of Lib Dem defectors to Labour, ruled out returning to their 2010 parties at the next election.

For the 2011 and 2012 local elections the model is fairly certain that the Conservatives will be the largest party at the next election.

We fear, sadly, that Nick Clegg's lustre is too tarnished to be of much assistance to the party at the next election.

The uncertainty produced by the rise of UKIP is even more dramatically illustrated by a second model, which predicts the probability that the Conservatives or Labour will be the largest party at the next election.

This forecast (which, incidentally, is almost identical to Steve Fisher's latest forecast — based on polling data — for all parties except the Liberal Democrats) suggests that the Conservatives are likely to be the largest party at the next election.

«This is what will make the difference between a slender victory for the Labour party at the next election or a substantial working majority.

I've talked to two Conservative MPs in the last week in parliament who are now talking about the threat of annihilation of the Conservative party at the next election.»

8.30 pm update: Ian Gibson, the Labour MP for Norwich North has been barred by a Labour disciplinary panel from standing again for the party at the next election (the same fate was delivered to three MPs who had already announced they were standing down: Margaret Moran, Elliot Morley and David Chaytor).

One in four Labour voters could switch to another party at the next election amid confusion over its stance on Brexit, according to a new poll.

Robin Cook, the Shadow Secretary of State for Trade and Industry stated that he would not run, as he did not believe he was attractive enough to the general electorate and that this would damage the party at the next election.

These are terrible figures for a man who says he will lead his party at the next election, suggests YouGov President Peter Kellner

The Tories have risen four points, with 43 % of voters saying they would vote for the party at the next election, while Labour has dropped two points to 27 %.

This provides some opening for the party at the next election.

Not exact matches

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Despite the rough first year, Premier Redford's Tories still have at least three years left until the next election to fulfill the promises made and mend fences with the bloc of moderate voters who saved their party from defeat one year ago today.

He could quietly complete his term as a Wildrose MLA and retire at the next election, or he could run for another party or as an Independent candidate (given his style, this may be the likely option).

At this moment, the Republican party, and the conservative cause with it, has a better than even chance of claiming an across the board supremacy in next November's election.

For those unfamiliar with Westminster systems, most parliamentary votes are, as the British say, subject to the party whip: that is, members are expected to vote with the party leadership and are subject to severe retribution (such as being «de-certified» as a party - supported candidate at the next election) if they resist the whip.

If the party rejects the true believers, they risk driving them into a new party which will, at least for the next election, leave the Democrats as the largest party with other votes split.

«The next election» said Kirsty Walk on Newsnight on November 12th «will at least be partly fought on the parties» understanding of how modern families work».

This is deeply at odds with the party leadership who are thought to prefer another deal with Cameron after the next election.

Owusu Amankwah is touted as the key man to increase the party's presidential votes from 37, 853, representing 71.41 per cent in 2012, to at least 40,000 in the next elections according to the party's estimation, and maintain the party's seat in Parliament.

Not having a two party system is probably also helping to suppress it - our current wannabe demagogue is named Pauline Hanson, and she's relegated to a minor party (although she likes to publicly make - believe that her party will form government at the next election).

An inkling of the movement for constitutional reform at the practical level of electoral politics may be traced to the Joint Commission on the Constitution set up in 1981 by the Alliance, with the purpose to «examine the policies for reform of the British constitution, in particular of the electoral system... that our parties should present together at the next election for implementation» (Joint Liberal / SDP Alliance Commission on Constitutional Reform 1983: 1).

Although, Mr Draper said the union wholeheartedly supported the election of a Labour government at the next general election, he urged Labour leader Ed Miliband to put clear blue water between the party and the Tories.

Yet a transnational template to the contrary was received with virtually unanimous acclaim across the ideological spectrum right from the beginning of the constitutional and organic legislative revision process, well before many parties had even been formed, let alone knew anything about their fortunes at the next elections.

To take into account the aspects explained above, I introduce the following control variables: MP received an office budget uplift; MP is a London MP; MP held a frontbench position in 2014 - 15 [12]; MP stood down at the next election; the time it takes to drive from the constituency to Westminster; and the MP's party affiliation.

At the same time, Cuomo is being pushed to call elections for Senate seats that could potentially open, including one expected to be vacated in the Bronx next month by Ruben Diaz, Sr., in order to keep the party's numbers in the chamber.

Now may not be the best time to propose adoption of a nomination vote at Westminster, when the next election seems far away, and both major parties claim they are confident of winning an overall majority.

Ultimately therefore the decision to extend voting rights to younger people will depend on both whether Labour wins the next election and crucially whether the party sees it as advantageous to increase its vote share slightly at the expense of becoming more reliant on a coalition of disparate interests.

What I don't really see is how the Labour party holding three pilots in this Parliament, or even selecting all of its candidates in some form of primary at the next election or the time after would make any really significant difference to arguments for or against first - past - the - post, the Alternative Vote, AV +, AMS, STV and various hybrids thereof.

The Labour manifesto for the 2010 general election again reiterated support for the third runway subject to environmental conditions, but added that the party «will not allow additional runways to proceed at any other airport in the next Parliament.»

The Liberal Democrats will stand at the next general election on a platform of derailing Brexit and keeping Britain in the European Union, the party has announced.

Jeremy Corbyn has talked up Labour's chances at next month's local elections despite pollsters predicting his party is headed for a drubbing.

However, I predict that Labour's unwillingness to engage with a left - wing Euroscepticism could lead to the alienation of the roughly one - quarter to one - third of Labour voters who oppose British EU membership, leading many of them to turn away from the party at the next general election.

«All those supporting it will achieve is split their own party, cast questions over the prime minister's authority and indirectly help Labour's prospects at the next general election.»

Instead of mucking in with the multifarious resistance movement - which, as you rightly state here, does not require universal agreement in order to progress, that sort of Leninist thinking is weedkiller to the grassroots - Labour is already positioning itself for the next election, terrified of doing anything at all which might upset the few swing voters in key marginal seats that the party has repositioned itself towards over the past twenty years.

Writing for the ConservativeHome website, Morgan warned that the party could lose support at the next election if it appeared to be lacking empathy and compassion.

When David Cameron made his big speech in January 2013, he was hoping to unite his party and put the issue to bed until at least after the next general election.

In our analysis of 100 years of fiscal squeezes in the UK, we found that hard revenue or spending squeezes were associated with a 77 to 86 per cent likelihood of the incumbent parties in government losing at the next general election, compared with the 38 to 42 per cent likelihood of losing the next election that was associated with soft revenue and spending squeezes.

Using the right techniques local elections can give us a pretty good indication of how well parties might do at the next national election.

Or if the Libertarians get a lot of votes, the popular party will become more liberate and get the votes back at the next election.

The actual numbers give mixed support for the idea that local elections tell us how well a party will do at the next election.

Nearly two - thirds of the time the party that receives the most number of votes at local elections goes on the get the most votes at the next national election.

These figures suggest that local election can give us a general idea of how well a party will do at the next election, but one that is only a rough estimate at best.

The stakes could not be higher: a poor speech puts May at immediate risk of an internal leadership challenge; a solid speech means the assumed timetable of a two year premiership remains viable; a great speech means people might even start believing she's capable of leading the Party into the next election.

To make it count, each must show the Labour party that they can unite it, probably on a moderate anti-austerity platform, and convince it that there is still all to play for at the next election.

And it still depends on fluking a hung Parliament at the next election, with Labour as the largest single party and having enough LibDems to produce a workable majority... and that's before the horse - trading on policies begins.

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