Sentences with phrase «conservative party with»

In Florida, the home of Jeb Bush — who is a key supporter of the Common Core — there is reportedly a battle raging within the conservative party with regard to the Common Core standards and tests that are associated with it.

He was appointed as a parliamentary private secretary in 1963, became secretary of the party's agricultural committee, an important body at the time, and in 1965 was appointed vice-chairman of the Conservative party with responsibility for candidates.

If he is successful we will be see the proportion of people associating the Conservative party with things like understanding people's problems and being caring increasing, and people's perceptions of the Conservative party on the left - right scale moving closer the the centre of gravity.

Finally, Eleanor Laing was not convinced the reshuffle would change the mood of the parliamentary party - she was asked on BBC News whether the reshuffle would result in a «more cohesive» Conservative Party with less rebellions, and she answered: «I very much doubt it».

In happier news for progressive liberals, Howie Hawkins and the Green Party not only kept their ballot line but jumped from 6th place to 4th place, surpassing the Independence and Working Families parties and landing just behind the Conservative Party with 5 percent of the total vote.

David Cameron has done what none of his immediate predecessors has understood or tried to do: he has confronted the Conservative party with the fact that it was out of step with the country.

And the prospect after the next election of an ungovernable Conservative Party with a Prime Minister pulled this way and that and the British people paying the price.

A former Vice-Chairman of the Conservative Party with responsibility for candidates, she stood out at Conservative Central Office as highly capable.

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.

If so, how he proposes to negotiate unilaterally as leader of the Conservative party with the other 26 EU countries needs to be explained.

GOP guebrnatorial candidate Carl Paladino's campaign has made no secret of its desire to, as campaign manager Michael Caputo has put it, «replace the Conservative Party with the Taxpayers Party.»

The Tory leader began his leadership of the Conservative party with pledges to change the nature of British politics, but his performances at PMQs quickly veered towards the traditional.

From December 2005 to September 2010, Lord Ashcroft was Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party with responsibility for the target seats campaign and opinion research.

At the moment, the Government seems paralysed and the Conservative Party with it.

A second blow to disciples of the Paris Climate Accord was last week's Austrian election, Solomon argues, «which saw two conservative parties with no interest in climate change — it wasn't even an election issue — come in first and second, making them likely to form a pro-carbon coalition government.»

Not exact matches

The prime minister's Conservative party critics, who are already unhappy with her leadership on Brexit, are poised to speak out against her leadership should Labour make major gains across the country.

Trudeau is six months into his bid for the party leadership, and it shows as he briskly shakes every available hand in the room before alighting on his throne to expound on the Conservative government's fickle relationship with China.

She is more simpatico with Trudeau's Liberals than any provincial or federal Conservative party is, but the federal Liberals have governed more by public - mood windsock than ideological purity.

With only four seats to call, the Conservatives are ahead with 316, compared to 216 to the Labour PaWith only four seats to call, the Conservatives are ahead with 316, compared to 216 to the Labour Pawith 316, compared to 216 to the Labour Party.

The comments from Defense Minister Michael Fallon in an interview with the Daily Telegraph suggested that the ruling Conservative Party would not increase the top rate of income tax, striking a contrast with main opposition Labour Party.

Another problem with claiming the CMHC's $ 600 - billion cap sounds the death knell is that no political party in Canada wants to see house prices plummet like they did in the U.S.. By reigning in the CMHC, the Conservatives are attempting to moderate the boom, not tip into it into a meltdown.

German President Frank - Walter Steinmeier is currently pressuring his party (the SPD) to form a so - called Grand Coalition with the conservatives and avoid the need for snap elections.

Khan has secured a comfortable victory over his closest rival — the Conservative party's Zac Goldsmith — with 1,310,143 votes.

The Conservatives had avoided accumulating the «barnacles and cuts and bruises» often associated with a long - governing party and stood a strong chance of getting re-elected.

On Monday, she said she would seek an urgent meeting with leaders of all the other parties represented at Westminster on how to tackle a phenomenon that is not restricted to the Conservative Party.

Nearly all votes have been counted and indicate that the U.K. will have a hung parliament with the Conservatives as the largest party.

This compares with the election result of 32.9 percent for the conservatives, 20.5 percent for the SPD, 12.6 percent for AfD, 10.7 percent for FDP, 9.2 percent for the Left party and 8.9 percent for the Greens.

With her Conservative Party split over Brexit, May will have to be careful to preserve the uneasy balance in the cabinet after the loss of such a senior pro-EU minister.

However, the scale of swing to the party both in Richmond and the recent Witney by - election, suggest that the wounds caused by their association with the Conservatives, are starting to heal.

«Elimination of caucuses and conventions would mean nuclear war with the grassroots, social conservatives, the Ron Paul movement and Tea Party Republicans,» said John Tate, a senior Paul advisor who now runs the Campaign For Liberty, a libertarian grassroots lobbying group.

Merkel was weakened after a September election as voters angry with her decision in 2015 to open Germany's borders to more than a million asylum seekers punished her conservatives by voting for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) far - right party.

The centre - left Social Democrats (SPD), Merkel's current coalition partners who were the second - biggest party in the election, have ruled out a repeat of an alliance with her conservatives, who won the vote but were left with fewer seats.

He's betting that he can broaden his Tea Party following by winning over social conservatives, and use a victory in Iowa — where he's in a virtual dead heat with Donald Trump in a new Des Moines Register / Bloomberg poll released Wednesday — as a springboard to success in South Carolina.

The resignation chatter was swiftly denied by the PM's communications staff, but with an election coming up in 2015, we're watching the Conservatives» internal maneuvering as the party contemplates a fourth election with Harper as leader.

It is telling that when a Steyer - backed anti-Keystone ad aired on the night of Barack Obama's state of the union address, it was the Conservative party — not TransCanada, that actually wants to build the pipeline — that responded with an ad of its own (and then, only online).

PC stands for «Progressive Conservative», the party associated with the right in Ontario politics.

Hensarling — a polite and low - decibel conservative with a deadpan sense of humor and an occasionally sharp tongue — has become a tea party favorite by relentlessly striving to cut federal spending and shrink the federal government.

What began as a small, focused Enbridge campaign with northern First Nations grew into a political juggernaut that arguably contributed to the Harper government's 2015 defeat, after the pro-tanker Conservative party lost more votes in B.C. than in the rest of the country combined.

However, when the substantial majority of over 60 per cent gets split among four other competing parties, the Conservatives — with a minority of the vote — could wind up forming the government.

All parties receive substantial public funding intended to support democracy, but it also means they are in varying degrees highly dependent on money that will disappear with a Conservative majority, making the Tories even more motivated to win and gain an advantage in the election after this one.

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.

«By and large, with the exception of the Conservative platform, which doesn't have many details, the other four parties have... incorporated some degree of energy efficiency program,» says Tim Weis, director of renewable energy and energy efficiency policy with Pembina.

Having won the leadership with the help of social and religious conservatives, how much does he have to curry favour with a voter segment with no other party to vote for?

As Alliance leader, he helped bring about the merger with the Progressive Conservative party, then swept to the leadership of the new party in March of this year.

The Conservatives would lose 37 per cent of total funding — the least of any party — and leave them with a significant advantage over their adversaries.

The insurgent Progressive Party was next with 64 seats, and the Conservatives trailed with 50.

The Conservative party and the NDP have already begun to compete to buy voters with their own tax money.

The would - be leaders of Alberta's new conservative party envision a province preoccupied with its own interests, powers and identity.

Will McMartin, a long - time political consultant and commentator who has been affiliated with the Social Credit and BC Conservative parties, is a contributing editor at The Pacific Political Report.

In the 2006 election campaign, the Conservative Party promised an independent office, reporting to Parliament with virtually full access to all relevant information.