Sentences with phrase «progressive alliance»

So we are resolute in wanting to explore the potential for progressive alliances with other parties that will deliver fair votes.

As summer has drawn to a close, it's time to look back on our efforts in the General Election and look forward to the party conferences and plans for Progressive Alliances in the London Council Elections next May.

He added: «Such progressive alliances are now essential not just because that is the only way we can beat the Tories but because that is the way we will make better decisions and take more of the country with us.

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«So I hope than in 2008 the Liberal Democrats and the Green party will join us in putting pressure on the government to decentralise power, and that together we can create a new progressive alliance to decentralise British politics.»

I can't think of another issue where I've had more communication and it's unprecedented for so much of that to come from England and what people have been saying to me is if what you meant during the election that you cared about more than Scotland, you wanted to hold out a hand of friendship to people in England, build progressive alliances where you could, if you meant that, then please on this issue vote with us to retain the ban on foxhunting.

... My worst scenario is that you won't end up fracturing towards the end but you will find that Nick will say — and this is where his heart really lies — that we should have a «national progressive alliance» with the Tories.

And Labour's Clive Lewis, who also took his Norwich South seat from a Lib Dem, wants to hold on after publicly backing progressive alliances, de-backing Brexit and leaving Corbyn's top team.

Leading figures from the left and centre left gather for progressive alliance discussion Cable, Lewis and Lucas to speak at public meeting about «alliance - building» on the left Leading figures on the centre left and left of British Politics will hold a public meeting today (Tuesday...

Mr Tristram Hunt could offer chapter - and - verse on this radical progressive alliance, if you think it may offer a useful entryist strategy.

«I don't think this will be a socially progressive alliance.

Scotland's first minister says she will seek progressive alliance with Labour and admits second referendum was factor in losing 21 seats

Such progressive alliances are now essential not just because that is the only way we can beat the Tories but because that is the way we will make better decisions and take more of the country with us.

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We hope that together we can create a new progressive alliance to decentralise British politics.

And a progressive alliance of Labour, the Liberal Democrats, and the Greens could do much to ensure the integrity of progressive politics in Britain.

Gordon Brown's calls for a progressive alliance with the Liberal Democrats seem to be dead in the water, with Nick Clegg calling the prime minister desperate.

Cameron was also very keen, particularly in the early days of the Coalition, to describe it as a «progressive alliance», quite deliberately attempting to poach progressivism from the left.

Mr Clegg welcomed Mr Brown's early congratulations but made a pointed dig at Mr Cameron's appeal to the Lib Dems to work with the Tories in a «progressive alliance.»

The only way a split could be made to work would be for Corbyn's Labour and the progressive alliance to form a «non-compete» pact, allowing each a clean shot against the Conservatives in pre-determined seats.

Even if that new moderate party were to join with the Liberal Democrats and Green Party in a progressive alliance, it would still only garner 22 % support, according to the polling, dwarfed by support for the Conservatives, on 40 %.

Conservatives would win 375 seats, Corbyn's Labour 166 and the progressive alliance 31 — giving the Tories a majority of 100.

In an article aimed at Lib Dem leadership candidates Chris Huhne and Nick Clegg, Mr Cameron appealed for a «progressive alliance» between the Conservatives, the Lib Dems and the Green party.

There's also the fact that under a more proportional voting system, Labour would probably be in power right now in a progressive alliance.

The progressive alliance of which Corbyn is a creature and so fond will take Labour only so far when the party would gain, according to analysis published in The Guardian, just 11 seats if each and every one of the Greens» 1.2 m voters in 2015 joined Corbyn's Labour crusade.

A progressive alliance, in those circumstances, can do little more than scoop buckets of water from the deck of the sinking Titanic.

A «progressive alliance» is an idea that has plenty of support but few obvious prospects for success - with Ukip bleeding votes to the Conservatives, Tory dominance is on the way

Meanwhile campaign group Compass is bringing together activists from different parties to try and create some form of «progressive alliance» to stave off the Conservative tide at local level.

But he rejected any notion of a progressive alliance, despite taking part in lengthy conversations with Labour during the 1990s about working together.

He wrote: «These so - called «progressive alliances» are almost always anti-Tory and always end up denying voter choice.

The trouble with a progressive alliance is there aren't enough progressives to go round.

Yet my time spent plucking feathers from the yellow bird of freedom makes me a natural choice to suggest how Labour can rebuild our hopes for a «progressive alliance».

A progressive alliance may have a small impact in certain seats, mostly in London, perhaps most effectively not even against a Tory MP but Labour Leaver Kate Hoey.

I'd have been in favour of putting together a progressive alliance with the Lib Dems if it had worked, much though it would have pained me...

Your party has spent the last year alienating itself from any progressive alliance, and is rapidly disappearing off up its own backside into irrelevance.

In recent months the question of whether Labour ought to consider a «progressive alliance» with other anti-Tory parties has become a major talking point on the left.

For many, the events of the past fortnight render talk of a progressive alliance as naïve at best and even contemptable.

It was of no surprise, therefore, that there have been renewed calls for a progressive alliance from key Labour MPs.

Labour could play an important part in that progressive alliance, but only if it can leave behind its arrogant belief in its own exclusive role.

Even if Labour have fewer seats than the Conservatives, they have more choice in prospective coalition partners, so could be more likely to form a «progressive alliance».

For the second time since 1997, the attempt to form a progressive alliance has failed.

The plan for a progressive alliance forged in the white heat of GE2017 should explicitly be about challenging this growing rightist, Tory hegemony.

«We are all getting tired of Andrew George pretending he wants a progressive alliance when really he just wants Labour people to vote Lib Dem, for him.

A progressive alliance need only be a temporary arrangement to effect PR.

Charles Kennedy wants Labour MPs to join a «progressive alliance» to defeat the Conservative rebels

The Greens have called for a «progressive alliance» between those parties lined up to oppose the Tories and their Brexit at all costs.

The Shadow Defence Secretary said Labour should try to make «progressive alliances» with other left - of - centre parties to defeat the Conservatives.