Sentences with phrase «conservatives of a smear campaign»

But McCluskey and Diane Abbott, the shadow international development secretary, accused the Conservatives of a smear campaign against Labour before the local, mayoral and assembly elections.

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Labour has picked a new candidate to replace the defeated Dunwoody, in his first press release to get any coverage he attacks the Conservative MP and local hero Edward Timpson, for being lazy and continuing to work as a barrister — not true of course — but when did the actuality ever get in the way of a Labour smear campaign.

Media Matters for America chronicles the immediate emergence of an echo chamber perpetuating this smear, involving talk radio, conservative blogs, the McCain campaign, and the national media, despite early and repeated factual refutations.

The eurosceptic party says the stories are the result of a smear campaign originating in Conservative head office.

She was met by Conservative candidate Ben Gummer and members of his campaign team demanding that she withdraw a series of smears and lies Labour have been spreading, suggesting that Conservatives will close Sure Start Centres and withdraw various benefits from OAPs.

Take it as a compliment, clearly the Conservative hight command has some concerns about the UKIP vote and whilst unwilling to have much in the way of policies on the EU, it seeks to shore up its vote with a smear campaign.

And this April, most spectacularly, he forced the resignation of Damian McBride, one of Gordon Brown's key aides, after obtaining an email correspondence between McBride and the Labour blogger and activist Derek Draper proposing a campaign of unfounded personal smears against senior Conservatives.

This exchange, from a listserv maintained by the National Academy of Sciences, captured scientists discussing ways to more effectively counter the attacks on their credibility from climate skeptics and conservative politicians, which Stanford climatologist Stephen Schneider, in the email dialogue, likened to a «smear campaign» of «neo-McCarthyism.»