Sentences with phrase «british political leader»

Indeed, it could actually be more significant than «the most personal speech ever given by a British political leader,» too.

Trump has attacked British political leaders over Islam before.

Canadians at one point in Ontario were thinking about having a Canadian Revolution, but, luckily, the British political leaders learned from their horrible failing in their treatment of Americans and they gave Canada a lot of political and economic rights — more than they gave the Americans, and they then gave us our own country.

I think British political leaders through out history can be fitted into the following 4 types, when it comes to the role of the state: Big Redistribution + Centralised State Big Redistribution + Decentralized State Small Redistribution + Centralized State Small Redistribution + Decentralized State The modernized wing of the labour party fit's basically in the first category, particularly post Credit Crunch.

Big deal, you might say - and perhaps it isn't a big deal, but Brown has broken a long tradition of British political leaders not commenting on the election campaign of their key ally, the Unites States.

Not exact matches

Or else, the folks at Homearena, a British furniture retailer, have put together a pretty cool Infographic summarizing the routines of some of the most successful political leaders and entrepreneurs.

Just as Albertans expected their political leaders to fight back when Trudeau - the - dad tried to force his National Energy Plan on them in 1980, British Columbians expect our premier to fight to protect our province from bullies from across the Rockies trying to bisect British Columbia with an unwanted pipeline to deliver toxic bitumen to Burnaby for export on oil tankers.

Today's dramatic announcement by British politician David Miliband - once widely expected to succeed Gordon Brown as leader of the Labour Party - that he is stepping back from front - line politics completes a chapter in a political psycho - drama that has transfixed the British political classes for months.

His message was mostly ignored; the Allies thought he was too pro-German, «Papa Boche», and British Catholic leaders continued to support the war effort and emphasise that the pope's stance was not doctrinal but political.

Like many political elites in Europe, British leaders have often manipulated immigration for their own ends.

The British political class this morning looks horribly inadequate, particularly on its right flank - the gamesmanship of successive Conservative leaders has driven Britain to the brink.

None of these political leaders thinks it would be a good idea for Great Britain to leave Europe, but they all respect that it is within the power of the British government to do so.

Her reaction to political embarrassment was to invent nonsense stories about foreign leaders trying to subvert British democracy.

A few weeks ago a new British political party was established, Justice for Men & Boys (and the women who love them) I'm the party's leader - and we plan to change the face of British politics.

It was in fact Chamberlain's arrogance and intense dislike of opposing views, not his weakness as a political leader, that led him towards one of the greatest blunders in the history of British foreign affairs; namely appeasing Hitler (pp. 312 - 9).

There is certainly a plausible argument that Ed Miliband has been one of the most effective leaders of the opposition in modern British history, demonstrating an ability to set the political agenda that exceeds what either Margaret Thatcher or Tony Blair achieved from the opposition benches.

They are given to a wide range of individuals on the recommendation of the leaders of the major British political parties, including opposition parties.

The man behind the project was Julian Astle, freshly returned to the British political scene after five years working for ex-Lib Dem leader Paddy Ashdown in Kosovo and Bosnia.

Although eager to denounce religious extremists (particularly Islamic ones who are targeted by the media) none of our political leaders have been willing to take any minimal step to resist the intrusion of religion itself into British politics.

Laughing at our political leaders is an inevitable and even healthy part of British politics.

A few weeks ago a new British political party was established, Justice for Men & Boys (and the women who love them) I'm the party's leader - and this is our plan to change the face of British politics.

Political leaders in Britain, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland have condemned the deadly attack upon a British army barracks blamed on dissident republicans.

However, leaders from the unionist political parties warned of «divorce» and «break - up» of the British Isles.

The British Chambers of Commerce, representing 75,000 businesses with five million employees, attacks the country's political leaders over Brexit on Sunday, accusing them of «division and disorganisation» that is putting the economy at serious risk.

The 2007 Labour Party deputy leadership election was a British political party election for the position of deputy leader of the Labour Party.

The British press, despite its many flaws and its despairingly conservative mindset, still has the dignity to expose corruption even when it knows it will be castigated, not least by its own weak - willed political leaders.

Speaking at the Australian British chamber of commerce, Crosby said voters are more concerned with who their daughter is dating than political crises and winning elections came down to being a stable leader with a clear message.

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 primary task of the next Labour leader has to be to develop a political economy that addresses the fundamental inequalities and inequities that have blighted British society for so long - and which will only worsen as the Con - Lib coalition's doctrinaire spending cuts begin to bite.

The British people have voted to leave the European Union after a historic referendum in which they rejected the advice of the main Westminster party leaders and instead took a plunge into the political unknown.

«But if the British public vote to leave the EU, we will only have ourselves to blame — and many will naturally ask whether leaders of our main political parties did enough to pull their weight.

The financial crisis of 2007/8 was a staging post on the Greek journey to Syriza but whether it profoundly changed what British voters want from their political leaders — whether we really took a «post-liberal» or any kind of political turn — remains debateable.

India has a British - style parliamentary system in which the leader of the political party with the highest share of the vote in the lower house of parliament is appointed as prime minister by the president (the President of India is a mostly ceremonial role; the prime minister is the head of government).

(2013), a sound installation by Cally Spooner, addressing language and political leader - ship, specifically within British politics.

A slighter younger compatriot of the Young British Artists of the early»90s, Saville came to popular attention in the U.S. when her work was included in the controversial 1997 «Sensation» show at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, which provoked the ire of conservative political and religious leaders.