Sentences with phrase «british election debate»

And even if it does not feature in the British election debate, the idea of replacing means - tested cash benefits with an unconditional, universal weekly payment to every adult citizen as a right of citizenship will soon be tested at the Swiss ballot box, with a referendum on basic income in Switzerland due sometime this year.

Not exact matches

Professor Jane Green, Co-Investigator on the British Election Study, was interviewed by Charlie Stayt and Louise Minchin on BBC Breakfast News following the second leadership debate between Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage.

Or rather, Theo Bertram, a number 10 staffer who was playing the role of Clegg in one of many dress rehearsals staged by the Labour party in the build - up to the general election — the first British general election to feature live TV debates.

The former Liberal Democrats leader Paddy Ashdown told the BBC the Lib Dems wanted to see debates «anchored as part of the established process of the British democratic right at an election» - and would take part even if the first debate turned out to be a farce.

British government ministers are instructed to be scrupulously neutral during foreign government elections on pragmatic grounds, but Duncan Smith came close to backing Romney outright as he criticised the UK media's presentation of the debate.

Gordon Brown could become the first British prime minister to agreed to a US presidential - style television debate at the next general election, it emerged today.

He warned: «Let us remember one thing if there is a debate, if there is a leadership contest, if there is a change of leader is the British public really going to wear the Labour party carrying on in office, is it not going to ask for an immediate general election.

With a too close - to - call general election, a left - wing Labour takeover that nobody saw coming, a Tory backlash over tax credits and an intense debate over military action in Syria, few could argue that British politics has been boring in recent months.

Corbyn initially stood in the British Labour leadership contest to give the party's left wing a voice in the debate on how to move on from its crushing defeat in May's general election.

The first ever British election leaders» debate last night between Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg pulled in an audience of 9.9 million, but Peter McHugh was not impressed.

Jones pays particular attention to Cameron's years working for Norman Lamont and Michael Howard in the 1990s (when he was covering those politicians» activities for the BBC on a daily basis) and later in the book - after dealing with the 2005 Tory leadership election, Brown replacing Blair, the political attitudes of the Murdoch press and Expenses-gate - he devotes whole chapters to both the TV debates and the role of the leaders» wives in a modern British election campaign.

The British electorate will experience its first ever TV election debate between the main party leaders this week.

They have been rehearsing for weeks in preparation for what will be the first televised debates during a British general election.

And this time last week we were anticipating the first ever TV debate between party leaders in a British general election, with many on the Right nervous that giving Nick Clegg equal billing with Gordon Brown and David Cameron would give a boost to the Liberal Democrats.

Despite the best efforts of British researchers, science was never a significant issue in the general election, with the topic barely being noted in the three debates between Brown, Cameron, and Clegg.