On the 6th May 2011 the Scottish National Party secured a historic majority for the next five year term at the Scottish Parliament. Their manifesto promised to freeze council tax, oppose tuition fees and set a renewable energy target of 100% by 2020. However, more crucially, one of the SNP’s most important pledges was to

Shock! Horror! Lib Dem business secretary Vince Cable advocates Lib Dem manifesto policy! The Telegraph today reports that Vince’s policy — which would levy a 1% annual charge on all properties valued above £2 million — is still on the table as the Coalition writes its second budget: Vince Cable, the Liberal Democrat Business Secretary,

Alex Salmond’s SNP have a political mandate to hold a referendum on Scottish Independence. With an unprecedented majority in the Scottish Parliament and a manifesto pledge, the question is not if we have to confront this issue, but how. Leaving aside arguments about the Scottish Parliament’s legal authority to legislate on an independence referendum (this

In 1997 the Labour Party manifesto outlined that under a Labour government the House of Lords would be reformed so that “the right of hereditary Peers to sit and vote in the House of Lords will be ended by statute…“. It was clear that change appeared to be on the agenda and the House of

Politicians are angry at suggestions from Treasury secretary Danny Alexander that the parties could align manifesto promises for the next election

The Lib Dem/Conservative coalition has failed to deliver their promises so far and will have to include further cuts in their election manifesto. Labour can still be painted as being at the root cause because their reckless spending based on cloud cuckoo economics was the cause. The banking crisis was the catalyst only. Labour continue to pull silly faces at the government without offering up any ...

One of the founder’s of the Italian Marxist daily, ‘Il Manifesto,’ Lucio Magri, has died at the age of 79. Magri chose an assisted death in a Swiss clinic. Together with Rossana Rossanda, Luigi Pintor and Valentino Parlato he founded the paper in 1969 and was consequently expelled from the Italian Communist Party (PCI). The group had urged the party to connect to the growing stud...

  Mr Lidington MP, Tory Minister for Europe did give, I must accept, a confident argument on Breakfast TV, for not holding an EU Referendum quite yet.   His hesitations are regarding what we would do to change our relationship with the EU.   Well, Mr Lidington, as Minister for Europe and a representative of a Government whose  manifesto was to finally offer us an EU Referendum,...

If there is one thing which Liberal Democrats need to be careful about after the tuition fees debacle, it is being seen to renege on any of our manifesto commitments. But this appears to be exactly what Nick Clegg is determined to do with the news that he has imposed a three line whip to

Dear Michael Meacher, I’m puzzled by your views on individual electoral registration. You call it “insidious”, “underhand”, “utterly anti-democratic” and “Tory”. Yet the legislation for it was introduced by a Labour government, Labour’s 2010 manifesto boasted about Labour’s achievement in passing that legislation and – as far ...