Sentences with phrase «british political parties»

SOR have also teamed up with some young members of the top six British political parties and asked them to decode their policies on environment.

However, both main British political parties continue to insist that the world is facing imminent disaster without drastic cuts in CO2.

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Whilst British political parties of all hues have fraternal relations with like - minded parties around the world, convention states that senior party figures do not campaign in each other's national elections.

The probe, which was launched in January following six months of preliminary investigations, is looking at whether Bearwood is «carrying on business in the UK» - a legal requirement for donors to British political parties.

Former top civil servant Hayden Phillips is conducting a review into party funding at the government's request, after the cash for peerages row raised concerns about the influence wealthy businessmen were having on British political parties.

Enoch Powell, a shadow frontbencher in 1968, had compared racial unrest in the US to the Roman poet Virgil's description of «the River Tiber foaming with much blood», in a speech which made the discussion of immigration a largely no - go area for the mainstream British political parties for fear of being accused of racism.

The group, whose members span the three main British political parties...

The prime minister's spokesperson comments on a committee on standards in public life report on the funding of British political parties:

Michael Dugher, shadow Cabinet Office minister, comments on a committee on standards in public life report on the funding of British political parties:

British political parties will be eyeing all this nervously.

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

Of course the other British political parties don't want Juncker - he's not the centre - left candidate, or the liberal one either.

Like other British political parties, the Conservative and Unionist Party publish (and update) party rules, in their case branded as a Constitution.

It may not have met every wim and plea across the progressive spectrum, but it's clearly delivered a fairer society than any other British political party could have been capable of.

The same's true with three extra seats on the govering NEC for a membership that's soared to 569,000 (more than every other British political party combined) though an additional union place going to an Usdaw shopworkers on the Right of the party translates into a net gain of two in Corbyn's slim majority.

I never envisaged that in my lifetime any mainstream British political party would contemplate pulling out of the European convention on human rights, a treaty that this country helped to formulate in the wake of the second world war.

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.

Blair's project is to dismantle the Labour Party as a party based on the unions, to destroy the elements of democracy which exist within the party and to transform the British political party system, through electoral reform, to make possible a long - term governmental alliance with the Liberal Democrats and, if possible, the Heseltine - Clarke wing of the Tory Party.

The situation has now boiled over, with the party being fined # 70,000 for misreporting spending in 2014 — the largest amount a British political party has ever had to pay.

But the Lib Dem section offers nothing for those desperate to hear something sane or humane from a mainstream British political party.

It would be a hugely positive development for a black man to lead a mainstream British political party.

For the first time ever, a mainstream British political party has called for withdrawl from Afghanistan.

«Write what you know» is the old saying, so playing things close to the bone can be thrilling, especially if one takes the personalities of key players from the Third Reich and mixes them with modern - day politicians who set about turning a civil war - torn, modern, democratic British political party into a terrifying dictatorship.

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.

But in these cases the message is sent out without an official backing from a well - supported British political party.

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

Such online votes would be the first serious steps by a British political party to acknowledge the internet age.

Not exact matches

Up against NDP and Liberal opposition parties both opposed to Gateway, Harper «can't afford to lose many seats» in B.C., observes Richard Johnston, a professor of political science at the University of British Columbia.

But in Germany the labor movement remains strong, and on workplace issues the mainstream political parties, the Christian Democrats as well as the Social Democrats, are well to the left of their American and British counterparts.

British Columbians are still just scratching the surface of the international money flowing through the province's property market and political parties.

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.

Our manifesto calls on all political parties to commit to placing the UN at the centre of an outward looking British foreign policy.»

Former British Labour Party MP Kevin McNamara, who has died aged 82, probably did more during his long political career than any other British politici -LRB-...)

Professor Andrew Thorpe is an historian of 20th century British political history and has published a history of the Labour Party.

Come back later in the week to see what the election taught us about the public, political parties, the pollsters and the British constitution.

In the context of the European political axis, India was given independence by the British in reaction to a movement lead by a fairly «left - leaning» activist that advocated multiculturalism, localism, and socialism - something akin to the Green parties in Europe.

For all the talk of radicalism and «rupture», Thatcherism was an ideology of restoration: consonant with the ideology and ideas of the Conservative Party and the intellectual tradition of the Establishment Centre - Right and strand of thought within the British Political Tradition.

Perhaps the most fundamental difference is the relative weakness of American political parties compared to their British counterparts.

In other words, David Cameron's commitment to an in - or - out referendum on Britain's EU membership primarily for party political reasons has fundamentally reshaped the terms of the British domestic debate on Europe but it also has huge implications for both the UK and European integration in general.

British constitutional history reveals, for example, that Parliament in the 18th century was not dormant at initiating norms; rather, the loss of initiative has followed on the advent of mass suffrage and the professionalization of political parties as well as the rise of the administrative State.

Since 1945, for the Thatcherites, the Conservative Party — and consequently British society — had committed a series of betrayals: the Unionist Party had surrendered the Union; the Imperial Party sacrificed the Empire; the Party of aristocracy hastened its political demise, and the Tories accepted — even pioneered — greater state intervention and welfare.

The first politician - or indeed the first political party - to create a manifesto designed to exploit the policy freedoms that Brexit brings will instigate a massive shock to the British political system and will steal a march on their competitors.

It is probably fair to say that libertarianism is a term less familiar to British political culture than to that of the United States, but British conservatives (including members of the Conservative party) often like to claim the mantle of liberalism and individual liberty, usually relating these ideas to the promotion of free enterprise, reduced state intervention in the economy and individual responsibility.

What Fallon is trying to do is point out, without actually saying it in terms, that the British political system is designed to ensure newcomer parties can't do well.

In British Columbia citizens were tasked with solving the problem independently of politicians, precisely because political parties» vested interest in a voting system that most benefited them had rendered the problem intractable in the legislature.

The Lib Dems would also seek to establish a constitutional convention, but theirs would take input from political parties, academic and civil society groups, as well as the British public, and aim to draw up a full constitution for a federal UK.

Developing from work he did for the Conservative Party in his Deputy Chairman role, since 2010 [46] Lord Ashcroft has been a major independent public pollster of British political opinion.

Conversely, Preston Manning's neo-conservative and populist Reform Party, with its roots in the political culture of Western alienation, elected 52 MPs mostly in British Columbia and Alberta.

And in any case, the British political agenda will be dominated by the Conservative party for the next five years.