Example sentences of "at the next [adj] election " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet for Labour to win on its own at the next general election would be a victory on a scale comparable with that achieved by Attlee in 1945 . |
| 2 | Sir : Labour does not need a commitment to proportional representation in order to scoop most of the centre ground at the next general election . |
| 3 | THE GOVERNMENT 'S plans for the NHS could cost the Tories 1.5 million votes at the next general election , Robin Cook , Labour 's health spokesman , claimed yesterday . |
| 4 | Senior Conservative MPs have already protested about the move and called on the Government to foot the £650m bill or risk losing key marginal seats at the next general election . |
| 5 | This year 's production number was of particular interest and significance because the Conservative high command is planning to make leadership a key issue at the next general election , only two years away . |
| 6 | Even if at the next general election Labour does better than ever before in attracting working-class support , say 80 per cent of the working class , it still would not have a majority of the vote . |
| 7 | It was generally believed that they were proposing to seek an electoral pact with the Conservatives , so as to ensure that they would hold their seats against what was expected to be a Conservative landslide at the next general election . |
| 8 | He told a Westminster press lunch : ‘ I want to see a Conservative government returned at the next general election under Margaret Thatcher 's leadership . ’ |
| 9 | At a minimum , Solidarity is expected to present more than one list to the voters at the next general election — if it has not already formally split by then . |
| 10 | There were few predictions of a Tory victory at the next general election and even some concern that the country might topple over into serious civil strife . |
| 11 | However his personal preference remained to put any proposals from the inquiry before the public at the next general election . |
| 12 | He has refused to rush legislative changes through , but he has not ruled out proposals on electoral reform which could be put before the electorate either in a referendum or at the next general election . |
| 13 | ‘ We shall break the historic habit because we shall not just get elected tomorrow to clear up the mess , we are going to get re-elected at the next general election as well , ’ he said . |
| 14 | In the debate in the House of Commons on 26 June 1991 , the Foreign Secretary ruled out the question of a referendum ( which needs a separate Act of Parliament ) and , if , therefore , the question was to be deferred to a future parliament , the amendments agreed at Maastricht in December 1991 could become an issue at the next general election . |
| 15 | It polled comfortably more than 50% in a number of areas where it will be looking for parliamentary gains at the next general election . |
| 16 | There are skinheads who will vote Conservative , Labour , Communist and SDP at the next General Election . |
| 17 | A Liberal Democrat surge at the next general election could not conceivably net more than 34 MPs . |
| 18 | When ( Labour ) tries to define a programme capable of rallying the masses at the next general election , it falls back , not on a specifically socialist programme , but on the old programme that half a century ago had been that of bourgeois liberalism in England . |
| 19 | If rail travel gets worse before it gets better , voters may dump them at the next general election . |
| 20 | On the second task — to cut inflation , the budget deficit and Italy 's vast public debt — Mr Ciampi must rely on his reputation as a defender of sound money to overcome opposition from populist politicians with everything to lose at the next general election . |
| 21 | On the other hand , if the member of parliament was induced to solicit for the removal of an acting officer , any failure to arrange the question satisfactorily would be taken in his constituency as a failure of political interest in London and evidence of a lack of effective power , which again could prove damaging at the next general election . |
| 22 | A staunch friend expected the countenance of the politician to whom he had attached himself , and a failure to actively canvass for a candidate might well he repaid in full by hostility at the next general election . |
| 23 | Similarly , whereas 65 per cent of those interviewed in the Yorkshire community voted Labour in 1987 and 66 per cent indicated that they would vote Labour again at the next general election , in the Nottinghamshire community the respective percentages were 51 and 48 . ) |
| 24 | At first they talked easily about David 's chances of demobilisation , and the kind of law he would practise when he eventually got back to London , and his prospects of fighting a reasonably safe seat at the next General Election , but inevitably that led on to Julia 's plans . |
| 25 | Although the government has to operate within the context of the economic realities of the day and " should " have regard to the long-term interests of the economy as a whole , critics of adversary politics point out that a short-term concern for vote maximisation at the next general election is never far from the government 's mind and this conditions the way in which it manages the economy and makes economic policy . |
| 26 | He sat in the 1835–7 Parliament as member for Harwich and assistant whip , losing his seat at the next general election . |
| 27 | He failed to find a seat at the next general election , but came in for the family borough a few weeks later , and acted as teller against his patron 's impeachment . |
| 28 | Is it not clear that at the next general election the public will face a clear choice between lower personal taxes under a Conservative Government or swingeing increased taxes under Labour ? |
| 29 | He truly will be known as the Prime Minister of evictions , unemployment and bankruptcies and that is why , as soon as the people get the chance at the next general election , they will stop him . |
| 30 | Clearly , the British people do not want a return to the failed interventionist , socialist policies of the 1960s and 1970s — and that is another reason why Labour will be defeated at the next general election . |