Sentences with phrase «election campaign visit»

Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron poses for a selfie taken by carer April Preston during a General Election campaign visit to the Barlow Medical Centre, in Didsbury, Manchester

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In the recently released biography of Ed Miliband, by Medhi Hassan and James Macintyre, a story is told about how Ed Miliband, then a visiting lecturer at Harvard, used a Jeremy Paxman interview of Tony Blair in the 2001 General Election campaign to illustrate a wider point he was making about attitudes to inequality.

Gordon Brown visited Doncaster North during the general election campaign to support his former adviser.

Some assailants in the Volta Region have planned to assassinate the flag bearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo, when he visits the region to campaign ahead of this year's elections, Rev Isaac Owusu Bempah, General Overseer of the Glorious Word Power Ministry International, has said.

His article comes after David Cameron on Friday unveiled the Conservatives» first election campaign poster on a visit to Yorkshire with the slogan «Let's stay on the road to a stronger economy».

During the 2016 elections when l visited his community to campaign, he organized people in the community just opposite the venue, inciting them to vote against me.

President Akufo - Addo promised during the 2016 election campaign and emphasised it early this year when he visited Ahafo on an official engagement that the decision to create additional regions was a commitment he was determined to bring to fruition.

Clinton was the first presidential candidate from both the Democratic and the Republican parties to visit Syracuse to campaign for the election.

Clinton's visit in 2010 came just days before the election, but this year, the former president stumped right after Labor Day, the unofficial kickoff for the campaign season.

In a last - ditch attempt on the 2010 election campaign, Gordon and Sarah Brown visit a factory to woo the electorate.

Mr Farage is visiting the Hampshire city as part of his campaign tour for the forthcoming European election.

The visit marks the start of campaigning as his party looks to bounce back in the county council elections in May.

In a phone interview Monday, Rhodes said he plans on driving across the district during the campaign to visit constituents and «talk about why this election is so important.»

Markey, who was criticized for a light schedule of public appearances during the special election campaign, said he plans to visit every part of the state during the August Congressional recess to learn about local issues and what Washington can do to help.

It was a standard campaign stop, a visit to the voter - rich Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of Borough Park in Brooklyn six days before Election Day.

Asked about Trump's remarks, Lamb said, «There was a lot of foolishness in this election and a lot of really cartoonish campaigning, and I think by the time of the president's visit... there was just a little bit of burnout on that type of campaigning.»

David Cameron is today visiting Oldham East and Saddleworth to campaign for Conservative by - election candidate, Kashif Ali.

During a factory visit to Leeds during the election campaign, May said: «As it happens, personally I have always been in favour of foxhunting, and we maintain our commitment, we have had a commitment previously as a Conservative party, to allow a free vote.»

Nick Clegg has launched the Liberal Democrat's local election campaign during a visit to Stockport.

During the 2010 election campaign, Gordon Brown visited the most constituencies, managing to fit in 62 — three of which he visited twice.

There was a dramatic increase in the number of visits made as election day approached: in the final three days of campaigning, the leaders made 27 visits, with David Cameron making visits to six constituencies the day prior to polling day alone.

Only a minority of constituencies are visited during election campaigns, which makes the reasons behind their selection interesting.

Bishops Park College in Clacton cost # 25 million to build and was visited by Tony Blair on the last election campaign.

Cameron snubbed a Hollande visit before the French election campaign and then openly - backed Sarkozy, despite strong polling evidence he was on course to lose.

On his only visit during the formal election campaign, on 30 April, Blair said Labour had «every chance of succeeding».

Speaking on a visit to Cannock, Mr Cameron said he had «unblocked the log - jam» over what format a televised election debate should take and that he was sticking to his proposal that any debate must take place before the official general election campaign starts.

Last month, Heaney — a businessman who founded a website that serves as an online propane marketplace — filed a statement of candidacy with the Federal Election Commission and has been actively campaigning, visiting community events and opening campaign offices throughout the district.

Zuckerberg visited with senators in closed - door meetings Monday, previewing the public apology he planned to give Congress on Tuesday after revelations that Cambridge Analytica, a data - mining firm affiliated with Donald Trump's presidential campaign, gathered personal information from 87 million users to try to influence elections.

President Obama visited during his 2012 re election campaign.

Ojukwu dumped APGA for the All Progressives Congress on 15th November, 2017 during President Muhammadu Buhari's visit to Anambra State for the grand finale campaign of the APC candidate for the November 18 Anambra governorship election, Dr. Tony Nwoye.

Highlife musician, Lucky Mensah, whose career has taken a nosedive, has paid a visit to the residence of Nana Akufo Addo to present him with a copy of his latest track, «Yeresesamu,» that seeks to support the party's 2016 election campaign.

And National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Greg Walden visited central New York twice during the last election to campaign with Katko.

In the final days of last year's general election campaign, Gordon Brown visited Skelmersdale, to a raw emotional reception.

They claim 13 Labour candidates received visits from Harriet Harman's «pink bus» but did not declare this in their local returns, with the cost instead included in the national return; that the Lib Dems used an election battlebus to transport activists to constituencies which was not included in the candidates» returns; and that the SNP leader, Nicola Sturgeon, «used a helicopter to campaign for SNP candidates in 12 target constituencies — at a cost of # 35,000».

During the campaign Lichfield was one of the councils visited by Conservative leader William Hague, on the 29 April, with the overall local elections seen by commentators as crucial to his leadership of the party.

Zuckerberg visited with senators in closed - door meetings Monday, previewing the public apology he plans to give Congress on Tuesday after revelations that Cambridge Analytica, a data - mining firm affiliated with Donald Trump's presidential campaign, gathered personal information from 87 million users to try to influence elections.

Neither Ministers, nor any other Parliamentary candidates, should involve Government establishments or offices (such as Jobcentres) in the General Election campaign by visiting them for electioneering purposes.

Addressing a mini rally at Bulenga, a community in the Wa East constituency of the Upper West Region as part of a campaign visit, Mr. Amissah - Arthur said, «When we are talking to our NDC members, we know that as the elections are getting close, the people who are going to lose are going to get desperate.

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The fourth week of the elections campaign opened with an epic moment during Harper's visit in Quebec.

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