Sentences with phrase «as snp»

(June 13, 2016)- Los Angeles, CA - The Spay Neuter Project of Los Angeles (better known as SNP LA) is excited to announce the 2nd Annual #StayIn2SavePets Un-Event.

Ballots are being sent out in the contest to elect a replacement for Angus Robertson as SNP deputy leader.

A single DNA sequence is formed from a chain of four nucleotide bases and if some individuals in a population do not carry the same nucleotide at a specific position in the sequence, the variation is classified as an SNP.

The mitochondrial genome of healthy humans also exhibits some natural variation — a single component of the mitochondrial DNA sometimes differs between one human and another — this is known as a SNP (single nucleotide polymorphism, «snip»).

The prime minister went into a standard denunciation of Labour's economic policies which she said were not «kind» or «fair» to anybody - but the questions about Windrush were far from over as an SNP MP, Lib Dem leader Sir Vince Cable and a furious Yvette Cooper kept up the pressure on her (see below)

[4][5] Salmond announced his resignation as SNP leader and First Minister the day after the referendum.

Labour leader Ed Miliband and Lib Dems» Nick Clegg resign after Conservative win as SNP wins 56 out of 59 seats in Scotland

Robertson was confirmed as SNP's Westminster leader on Tuesday, despite speculation that Salmond could make a return to the top job in London.

Brendan O'Hara has resigned as the SNP Westminster group's spokesman for culture, media and sport.

Mr O'Hara, a former BBC and STV television producer, was first elected in 2015 and has also served as the SNP's defence spokesman.

As the SNP launch their campaign for the Scottish Parliament elections, Labour faces a much closer fight than it hoped according to the latest Ipsos MORI poll for the Times (#).

As the SNP announced: «We are in a situation where the Tory government are refusing to agree to any amendments to improve the Scotland Bill - which are supported by 58 of Scotland's 59 MPs - and imposing English Votes for English Laws to make Scotland's representation at Westminster second class.

McConnell expressed fears that Labour would experience increased difficulty in regaining the confidence of Scottish voters following the election of Sturgeon as SNP leader, and described the party as «a political machine that is angry about what has happened in Scotland in the recent past».

It comes as the SNP secured an historic third term in charge at yesterday's elections, with 63 seats - but fell just short of the 65 which would have given them a majority for the second time.

He pointed out that Labour and the Lib Dems appear to have declared bus expenditure as national costs and also highlighted Nicola Sturgeon's use of a helicopter to travel to battleground seats as SNP leader.

This would leave Labour six seats short of an overall majority at Holyrood, giving them the option of trying to govern alone as the SNP have done these last four years, or considering forming a coalition with one of more of the smaller parties.

As the SNP has long taken a self - denying ordinance and doesn't vote on purely English matters, he has no problem in principle with English votes for English laws (or EVEL).

Most Green and SNP voters probably prefer a Labour - led government to a Conservative - led one, and that is why those two left - leaning parties have been at the forefront of calls for a «progressive alliance» (particularly in the form of a post-election deal, as far as the SNP is concerned).

This is in line with other smaller parties such as the SNP and the Greens and, to a lesser extent, the Labour Party.

Critics of the Conservatives said the real threat to territorial integrity was campaign posters like the one of Labour leader Ed Miliband dancing like a puppet as the SNP's Alex Salmond played the flute.

He stood down as SNP National Convener in 2000 and left the Scottish Parliament in 2001.

As the SNP took 63 of 129 seats, Labour's misery north of the border continued.

«Hopefully constituents will recognise that a party such as the SNP in a Westminster election can promise whatever it wants,» he says.

But he says exemptions should be in place for MPs such as the SNP's Dr Philippa Whitford, an experienced consultant breast surgeon, to continue outside work so that they are not «disadvantaged» after their term as an MP.

Plus: as the SNP prepares to elect a new deputy leader, Libby Brooks looks at a contest that has been dominated by one question: when should Scotland next vote on independence?

It is worth noting, however, that UKIP stood in 10 times as many seats as the SNP.

As the SNP's Angus MacNeil cruelly put to the Daily Record:

He became the biggest casualty of the night when his once safe majority in East Renfrewshire - a seat he had held for nearly 20 years - was eliminated as the SNP's Kirsten Oswald swept to victory with 23,564 votes to Labour's 19,295.

Similarly the Green Party got almost as many votes as the SNP, but again, only one vote in the parliament.

Salmond's successor as SNP leader - and, thus, as First Minister of Scotland - Nicola Sturgeon is equally adept at keeping the faithful on - message.

The scandal comes as the SNP's majority was reduced to just one, after two MSPs - John Finnie and Jean Urquhart — quit the party over its decision to join the Nato alliance.

Thomson was elected as an SNP member but withdrew from the party whip last year.

Mr Jones warned Labour delegates that without a fair settlement for all the countries of the UK, support for parties such as the SNP, Plaid Cymru and Ukip would strengthen.

White served as an SNP Parliamentary group whip in the first parliamentary session and sat on the parliament's Public Petitions Committee and Equal Opportunities Committee.

Following the election of 2003, she served as the SNP's Deputy Spokesman on Communities inside the Scottish Parliament and chaired the Parliament's European and External Relations Committee.

Just as the SNP will tread relatively carefully with their demands, so the PM will respond carefully.

I, of course, stood as a SNP candidate in 2001 and was duly elected.

As the SNP MP made clear in the Commons, Ilesanmi claims to have experienced severe domestic abuse by her estranged husband, who she believes cancelled her visa to stay and work in the UK.

Unless Remain can capture heart as well as head, Leave retains the structural advantage just as the SNP does in Scotland.

As the SNP tide has shown, these are not normal circumstances.

Sturgeon stood for election to the Scottish Parliament in the first Scottish Parliament election in 1999 as the SNP candidate for Glasgow Govan.

[15] Shortly after this, Sturgeon was appointed as the SNP's spokesperson for energy and education matters.

After losing his seat in the general election, Mr Robertson was replaced as SNP Westminster leader by Ian Blackford.

What is certain is that it lost voters to UKIP (as well as the SNP).

[11][12] She first stood for election in the 1992 general election as the SNP candidate in the Glasgow Shettleston constituency, and was the youngest parliamentary candidate in Scotland, failing to win the seat.

The party's organisational focus is important, but to win in 2016 the party also has to win the battle for ideas to mobilise a similar coalition of voters as the SNP achieved in 2011.

Or, as the SNP's Angus Robertson has suggested, would that general election in fact have to be postponed until after Scottish independence in 2016 (at least according to Alex Salmond's proposed timetable)?

There I was, standing on the green opposite Parliament, waiting to interview Angus Robertson after his re-election as the SNP's Westminster leader at a meeting of the party's 56 MPs in the Grand Committee Room off Westminster Hall.

Other parties such as the SNP, PC, English Democrats, Libertarians, Pirate Party, etc might join.

True, it lost overall control of Glasgow, along with North Lanarkshire and West Dunbartonshire, and trailed the Conservatives as well as the SNP in the Scotland - wide popular vote.