Sentences with phrase «conservative election spending»

This year has been a vintage one, beginning as it did with news of Labour's near # 600 bill for chicken suits and continuing with the more serious story of Conservative election spending.

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For sure, Mr. Moore would be on surer footing here if the Conservative Party of Canada hadn't pleaded guilty to violating election spending limits in 2008 and if the Harper government wasn't the only government in this country's history to have been found in contempt of Parliament and if the RCMP wasn't said to be presently investigating Mr. Harper's former chief of staff and and if two Conservative MPs weren't presently in court with Elections Canada and if the Prime Minister hadn't left for Peru without facing the House on the first day that Parliament was in session after the deal between Mr. Wright and Mr. Duffy was revealed and if the Prime Minister hadn't fail to show up in the House on the following Monday and if Mr. Duffy hadn't remained a Conservative senator for awhile despite having apparently claimed a housing allowance he shouldn't have.

The Conservatives are playing up low - cost initiatives such as action on cross-border price differences because they've restricted spending to balance the books by 2015, expected to be an election year, and don't have the cash right now for major tax cuts or lavish program spending.

As part of its 2006 election platform, the Conservative Party promised to «create an Independent Budget Authority to provide objective analysis directly to Parliament about the state of the nation's finances and trends in the national economy; require government departments and agencies to provide timely information to the Parliamentary Budget Authority to ensure it has the information it needs to provide accurate analyses to Parliament; and ensure that government fiscal forecasts are updated quarterly and that they provide complete data for both revenue and spending forecasts».

Progressive Conservative legislator Lisa MacLeod said the government is spending wildly to win votes ahead of the spring election.

The Liberals have also attempted to counter the image of Prime Minister Stephen Harper put forth by the Conservative Party, instead portraying him as a controlling and secretive leader with a hidden agenda, and attacking his judgment by tying him to past Conservative scandals, such as the Cadman affair, alleged spending misconduct in the last election, and the conduct of Maxime Bernier, the former Conservative minister of foreign affairs.

Republican NY - 23 congressional hopeful Matt Doheney is scheduled to meet privately this Monday in Washington, D.C. with leaders of the Club for Growth — the conservative organization that played a key role in the 2009 campaign of Doheny's primary opponent, Doug Hoffman, spending and / or bundling more than $ 1 million for his special election bid for the seat vacated by ex-Rep.

The report praises the Tories» fundraising strategy, saying the party received more money than it could spend and is well placed if another election is called and says one of David Cameron's greatest legacies will be a new generation of Conservative MPs, but it also says he will have difficult relations with his party.

After all, Conservative governments went into both the 1992 and 1997 general elections by announcing sharp expenditure restraint for the following Parliament, thus forcing the Labour opposition to either reject or accept those overall spending targets.

The Conservatives are expected to easily reach the # 19.5 million spending limit in the 12 months before the election.

More than 20 Conservatives could face charges from investigations by 14 police forces over their spending declarations at the 2015 election

In their submissions, the Conservatives called for a cap on individual donations to political parties, but Labour rejected this and instead called for caps on campaign spending throughout the year, rather than simply in a run - up to an election as now.

In the 2010 election campaign the parties spent # 31.1 m, with the Conservatives accounting for 53 % of this total (# 16.6 m).

[71][87] Support for Labour slumped during the recession, and the general election of 2010 resulted in a coalition government being formed by the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats, which made deep spending cuts in order to ease the budget deficit.

National insurance row But there will be no big spending announcements to vie with the Conservatives» recent proposals on national insurance (NI) and marriage tax breaks, which have so far dominated the election debate.

Between April and September 2016, ahead of last year's Assembly and Senate elections, the Legislature spent $ 7 million just on bulk postage for mailings to constituents, according to a recent report by the fiscally conservative Empire Center for Public Policy.

Before British politics got swept up in a whirlwind of Brexit, leadership challenges and a change of cabinet, one of the biggest stories was the allegations surrounding Conservative general election spending in 2015.

The startling evidence, first unearthed by Channel 4 News and confirmed in a condemnatory report released last week by the Electoral Commission — the independent body that oversees election law and regulates political finance in the UK — suggests that the Conservative party gained an advantage by breaching election spending laws during the 2015 election.

The Conservatives consistently spend close to the # 19m general election spending limit, and are currently in the middle of a spending drive among their wealthy donors.

The spending that has been found to be in violation by the Electoral Commission was used to bring Conservative campaigners into the tightest marginal election battles.

But, on the evening of the count an exasperated Nigel Farage, interviewed by Channel 4 News political correspondent Michael Crick, raised the first concerns about Conservative election expenses — which, he suggested, might have breached the # 100,000 limit for campaign spending in a byelection.

Ongoing investigations into Conservative spending at 2015 general election could still unsettle government

He also spent a brief period at Conservative Central Office, working as a press officer, in the 1997 General Election campaign.

The Conservatives will have up to three times as much money as Labour to spend in the run - up to the next election, senior party figures have warned.

It's worth noting that although the Conservatives outspent the Labour party at the general election, the figures show that Labour continued its streak (from 2010 onwards) of raising — and spending — more money for the financial year overall (# 51,153,000 to # 41,887,000).

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton devoted another speech to portraying her likely GOP general election opponent, Donald Trump, as unfit for office, and Trump fired right back, even as he spent a good part of his day to trying to win over Christian conservatives.

That criticism is likely to be repeated at the next general election as the Conservatives claim Labour's kneejerk response to economic difficulty is to ramp up public spending - as was their response to the financial crisis of 2008.

The Conservatives spent the general election campaign warning of a tie - up between Labour and the...

«It is deeply concerning that the Government is spending millions of pounds of taxpayers» money to push the Conservative political agenda ahead of the local elections.

American Crossroads, the conservative outside organization that has pledged to raise upwards of $ 60 million for the midterm elections, is spending nearly $ 1 million on new television ads in the Colorado and Ohio Senate races.

The Conservatives spent more than any other party - # 396,406 - on the Assembly election, figures released by the Electoral Commission reveal.

Conservatives will be free to change spending priorities within the fixed budget: «Adopting these 2 per cent a year spending plans has implications for the manifesto that we will offer the country at the next election.

As Danny Finkelstein noted here, the most difficult question for Conservatives in elections is: what spending will you cut?

Republican leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives are ready to break a hard - fought budget deal with Democrats as they try to quell a revolt by conservatives who are insisting on deeper spending cuts ahead of the November elections.

UK political parties spent # 31.1 m in the 2010 general election, of which the Conservative Party spent 53 %, the Labour Party spent 25 % and the Liberal Democrats 15 %.

Conservative spending at the election remains under intense scrutiny after a Channel 4 investigation alleged some local spending was allocated to the national account to avoid tight limits for each constituency.

The commission has since opened investigations into the spending returns of the Conservatives, the Green party, Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Women's Equality party in the 2017 general election.

The Conservatives also invested # 1.2 million in Facebook advertising in the run - up to May's general election, while Labour spent just # 16,454.67 on the social media platform.

It seems Labour, a party funded by union barons who pick the candidates and the leader, are spending more time trying to invent nonsense about the Conservatives than research and develop policies for the next election.

The Conservatives spent the general election campaign warning of a tie - up between Labour and the SNP which never happened in the end.

Scozzafava ultimately gave up her bid in New York's special congressional elections for the 23rd district after conservatives rallied around third - party candidate Doug Hoffman and charged Scozzafava was too liberal on a host of issues including government spending, taxes, and abortion rights.

A cabinet minister has said he has «every reason to suppose» the Conservatives properly reported their 2015 general election expenses amid allegations the party breached campaign spending rules.

The claims relating to Conservative spending, covering the general election and three parliamentary byelections, were first raised by the Daily Mirror and Channel 4 News.

You may recall he was the Conservative MP who was ruthlessly sacked by Michael Howard just before the 2005 election for making some unhelpful comments about the prospects for spending cuts.

(CNN)- A leading conservative grassroots organization that spent millions of dollars helping elect Tea Party backed candidates in the midterm elections is holding a two day retreat in Baltimore, Maryland Thursday and Friday for many of those soon to be congressional lawmakers.

Marcus Jones, a Conservative, says before the general election Labour pledged to cut spending roughly in line with the coalition's current rate of deficit reduction.

At the last General Election, Gordon Brown claimed that the Conservative spending plans would result in a cut of # 35 billion.

Edmund J. McMahon, the director of the Empire Center for New York State Policy, an affiliate of the conservative policy group the Manhattan Institute, called the proposed spending increase the largest in an executive budget «since Pataki's first election - year budget.»

Asked whether he was prepared to go into the next election with the Conservative party proposing public spending cuts while the government pledged to increase spending, Cameron replied: «I don't care what the government does any more.

The Conservatives also endured an abysmal Westminster election last year, winning only one seat north of the Border despite spending almost # 1.3 million on their campaign.