Sentences with phrase «conservative party supporters»

MPs and human rights lawyers say they expect Prime Minister Stephen Harper will attempt to swing the pendulum of Supreme Court of Canada rulings toward the prevailing views of Conservative Party supporters as he fills the court's two vacancies in a secretive and high - stakes

CCHQ would do better if it recruited active Conservative Party Supporters, rather than deliberately NOT recruiting activists.

The fact is that many Conservative Party supporters have made postings against the proposition that Cameron should make the policy commitments suggested by Wheeler.

09.50 - Footage has emerged of David Cameron addressing Conservative party supporters in London.

-- Premier Alison Redford in an email to Progressive Conservative Party supporters on January 23, 2013

Some Progressive Conservative Party supporters are privately expressing frustration with the decision by Premier Jim Prentice and his cabinet ministers to openly campaign and endorse incumbent PC MLAs and Wildrose floor crossers facing nomination challenges.

I was anything but a Progressive Conservative party supporter, but having articled in the Division I knew there was at least a commitment to law reform in that Division.

Not exact matches

Chancellor Angela Merkel addressed supporters of her conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party at a Saturday event in the industrial city of Dortmund, joining the final stage of the campaign for the parliamentary election on September 24.

So has Sandra Jansen, a long - time Progressive Conservative MLA who recently joined Notley's NDP, citing the growing sexism and intolerance of her own party and its supporters.

Fully eight - in - ten (81 %) of those who voted for Stephen Harper and the Conservative Party of Canada in the 2015 election say the B.C. government is wrong to try to delay the expansion of the pipeline, while supporters of the other two main federal parties are more divided.

Mr. Kenney's supporters may have been connected to a recent attempt by a conservative lobby group to hijack the one - MLA Alberta Party.

Four days before Election Day, Progressive Conservative Party leader Jim Prentice stood on a stage in front of hall of supporters who paid $ 500 per plate to attend the evening fundraiser in downtown Edmonton.

Calgary lawyer Doug Schweitzer announced in an email to his supporters today that he will not seek the leadership of Alberta's Progressive Conservative Party.

However, several Kenney supporters and Alberta Conservatives have speculated that he plans to seek the leadership of the province's Progressive Conservative Party under a unite - the - right banner.

Because of his track - record as a social conservative and Wildrose supporter, Mr. Kenney might not find a great deal of support among existing PC Party members, including the 1,001 who attended the party's annual general meeting earlier this Party members, including the 1,001 who attended the party's annual general meeting earlier this party's annual general meeting earlier this year.

While many of his supporters flocked to the new provincial party, some in the Wildrose establishment see Mr. Anders as a political liability whose ideology could challenge their attempt to rebrand as a moderate conservative alternative to the governing PCs.

The two main candidates for the leadership of the party, Jason Kenney and Brian Jean, are openly appealing to the party's social conservative and rural base of supporters and have been extremely reluctant to discuss any social issues.

An August 2010 poll by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life found that nearly half of Tea Party supporters (46 %) had not heard of or did not have an opinion about «the conservative Christian movement sometimes known as the religious right»; 42 % said they agree with the conservative Christian movement and roughly one - in - ten (11 %) said they disagree (based on registered voters).

Tea Party supporters appear to be better educated, wealthier, and more likely to call themselves conservative than the general population.

Writing in The Times, Henrietta Royle, chief executive of the coaching and strategy consultancy firm Fanshaw Haldin, made the point that while most Conservatives have no difficulty with equality for gay people, «a significant chunk of the party's core supporters clearly doesn't think that has to include redefining the traditional concepts of marriage to suit a small portion of the population without so much as a by your leave».

However, he has been reluctant to intervene in the case of Barlow who is a prominent supporter of the Conservative party.

Labour supporters might point to Tony Blair's three election victories in a row, but that ignores the fact that they were won partly due to moving to the centre ground, and partly due to the disintegration of the Conservative Party.

In August 1945, writing of the Conservatives, the Jewish Chronicle reported that «antisemitism on the part of party supporters had led many local political associations not to select Jewish candidates».

Boles, a member of the so - called «Notting Hill set» and Remain supporter, compared the rifts in the Conservative party caused by Brexit to the split allegiances during the Spanish Civil War.

And we won't just find Republican leaders and the party apparatus online: individual conservative activists can learn from Obama's online organizing as fast as their liberal counterparts (Ron Paul's supporters certainly did their part to lead the way).

Although the party originallyfocused around Conservative euroscepticism rather than immigration, relative to supporters of other parties UKIP sympathisers are much more likely to see immigration as the single most important issue facing the country (see figure 1).

At the same time, supporters of the Labour Party are more likely to say that colonial rule was a bad thing than those who back the Conservatives or UKIP.

Significant numbers of Labour supporters may be willing to vote tactically for the Lib Dems in seats where the Conservatives are the second largest party, the poll found.

Michael Gove's aggressive stance against the education establishment risks losing votes for the Conservatives even among the party's natural supporters, according to a new poll.

Carl Paladino skipped the Conservative Party convention in Manhattan last Friday at which Lorigo conspired with the Long Island chairs (supporters of Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy, also a no - show) to get himself and John Andrew Kay nominated to force a primary with Rick Lazio and his running mate, Chautauqua County Executive Greg Edwards.

This issue has exposed a new fissure in the party between its socially - conservative working - class supporters in the North and the Midlands, and its supporters in metropolitan areas, who are more likely to be liberal, young or from ethnic minorities.

Some 30 per cent did not vote at all in 2010, and only 12 per cent voted for other parties, approximately half of whom were Conservative supporters.

42 % of UKIP supporters say they will definitely vote for their party which is a big enough figure to worry the Conservatives and make a mockery of those who hope that UKIP support will return closer to the 3.5 % they picked up in 2010 by the time of the next election.

18 % of current Conservative supporters said they would, 30 % of UKIP supporters said they'd consider voting for Ed Miliband's party and a sizeable 46 % of current Liberal Democrat supporters said they would consider voting Labour as well.

Instead, they are living a political nightmare, having lost first the country to the Conservatives and then the Labour party to Corbyn and his supporters.

Two years away from a general election 66 % of current Labour supporters say will definitely vote for the party, compared to 58 % of Conservatives supporters who say they will vote for their preferred party.

Prominent figures in the Conservative party, such as Boris Johnson, Liam Fox and Michael Gove, are strident supporters of Britain following America's lead in foreign policy.

I am a lifelong supporter of the Conservative Party.

Ed Miliband has announced that to counter the Conservative party's financial advantage during the 2015 election campaign Labour will outnumber them in supporters out on the streets engaging with voters — and will benefit accordingly.

Indeed, Tories think Labour (which they place at 1.98) is more left - wing than those Labour supporters think the Conservative Party is right - wing; they even see Labour as more left - wing than the Greens — perhaps not unreasonably given where our «objective» score places them.

With good personal contacts at the top of the Conservative Party, particularly with George Osborne and his supporters, but also with Lib Dems, he has written a book that can be compared to Andrew Rawnsley's accounts of the Blair and Brown Labour governments, Servants of the People (2001) and The End of the Party (2010).

«I want to offer heartfelt thanks to Chairman Mike Long and the New York State Conservative Party, to my staff, volunteers and supporters who all worked tirelessly on my campaign.

One of the reasons why Macmillan and not Rab Butler became leader of the Conservative Party was because Macmillan had been an opponent of appeasement while Butler had been a ministerial supporter.

As for the GOP gubernatorial primary, Long — a big Rick Lazio supporter — admitted he's «concerned» with the idea of a Carl Paladino victory — but not, as Paladino's camp has insisted, because he fears the Buffalo businessman will try to take out the Conservative Party with his new independent Taxpayers Party line.

In early 2006, however, the police were called upon to investigate allegations that fundraisers for both the Labour and Conservative parties had offered supporters a life peerage in return for their financial support.

The Labour leader, as much as his union backers, seems to have a disintegrating rapport with his historical supporters, while the Conservative party continues to obsess about Europe and appears to have forgotten what it means to be cConservative party continues to obsess about Europe and appears to have forgotten what it means to be conservativeconservative.

Liberal Democrat insiders point to the fact that Kennedy and his supporters emerged from the SDP, the old Social Democratic breakaway party, but that in seeking to «break the mould» of British politics and merging with the Liberal to become the Liberal Democrats in the 1980s, never in their wildest dreams expected to end up supporting a minority Conservative Government intent on the most swingeing cuts in public spending since the Second World War.

The Conservatives have failed even to enthuse their own supporters; just 39 % of them reckon their own party's campaign is best.

Across the state, the governor, who will release his budget on Tuesday, is earning praise from unlikely sources: Republicans, Tea Party supporters and conservative Democrats.

In contrast, Clegg was regarded the winner by only 27 % of Conservatives, and only half of all Labour supporters, even though Labour and the Lib Dems are both pro-EU parties that reject a referendum in the near future.