Sentences with phrase «prospect of the next election»

That compact at the heart of the current coalition is now breaking down as resumed growth and the prospect of the next election induce the parties to reposition themselves.

Not exact matches

But, aware that the prospect of a second referendum plays badly with even moderate «Yes» voters, the SNP will spend the next six weeks playing down the independence dimension while the Tories place it at the centre of their campaign, an attempt to turn the general election into a referendum on a referendum.

On 1 — there is no prospect of a refom before the next election.

«Earlier on «Fox News Sunday,» Gibbs predicted that by this time next week the health - care bill will be «the law of the land,» and he welcomed the prospect that the 2010 midterm elections would be a referendum on health - care reform.»

«It has been my pleasure and privilege to serve as Beckenham's Member of Parliament for nearly 12 years now but, with the prospect of a Conservative government after the next election, I have for some months now been considering whether it might be time for me to move over for a younger person.

To a world where a fascinating Conservative - Liberal Democrat clash in shire local elections are now as close as the week after next, and the prospect of a triple - dip recession is looming horribly in next Thursday's GDP update, and the Lords prepares to vote on secondary legislation which basically amounts to the privatisation of the NHS.

New polling suggests Labour's lead over the Conservatives is dwindling, raising the prospect of a possible Conservative majority at the next election.

He looked weak, directionless, spineless — and with no apparent prospect of leading Labour to victory at the next election.

The Conservative party has ruled out the prospect of immediate tax cuts if it won power in the next parliamentary elections.

And the prospect after the next election of an ungovernable Conservative Party with a Prime Minister pulled this way and that and the British people paying the price.

In the event of Labour securing 290 seats, the leader's pitch would offer the prospect of a return to office if Labour could stay unified under Miliband and make another 30 or so gains at the next election.

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

More than two - fifths, 42 %, supported a coalition after the next general election to keep the Conservatives out of power, but 36 % rejected the prospect.

With LibDem support now below 10 % and little or no prospect of the economy coming good by the next General Election, the LibDems are facing obliteration and are rapidly running out of time.

The Conservatives will offer voters the prospect of «real choice» in the UK's relationship with Europe at the next election, David Cameron has said.

But this week has seen the revival of the quadrennial effort to make that detail available to English songwriters, as Peter Mandelson floated the prospect of Gordon Brown and David Cameron going head - to - head on television during the next election.

It's not so much the prospect of Boris becoming leader before the next election — a prospect I regard as less likely than Tim does — but the destabilising effect that constant speculation can have, just as it did for Gordon Brown.

Whatever the outcome of the next general election, legislation remains a distant prospect.