Sentences with phrase «hollyrood election debate»

The company has also been live streaming the general election debates.

During the first general election debate, Clinton said she supports «smart and fair trade.»

Apart from the occasional sound - bite on military spending, the Iraq war, and missile defence, Canada's role in the world was not part of the mainstream election debate.

Much of the election debate will be over who can devise the best plan to use the projected surpluses to help Canadians and support economic growth.

The first 2016 general election debate will place both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump under a microscope more searching than either has experienced before.

Should there be an election, these projections could become part of the election debate.

Former Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras arrives to an election debate with the leader of the Greek conservative opposition party New Democracy, Evangelos Meimarakis in Athens, Greece on September 14, 2015.

Ottawa — On the cusp of Thursday's federal election debate on the economy, the Trade Justice Network, (www.tradejustice.ca), a coalition of Canadian unions, environmental groups and citizens» groups, is calling on federal leaders to mandate the Parliamentary Budget Officer to do real fact - based analysis before they sign «free trade» deals that are destructive to Canadian -LSB-...]

When she was called on this claim in a general election debate, Ernst's response was a mess that both praised the federal Clean Water Act and seemed to call for state - based environmental regulation.

There is this fantasy that the general election debates are going to happen in some Tea Party Thunderdome where the live crowd will go wild for Gingrich and boo Obama into broken silence.

Our next piece took a look at this week's Hollyrood election debate and and suggested that the SNP's income tax policies show that the New Labour project lives on in Scotland.

By 2010 Brown had variously been accused of dithering over whether to release the Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al - Megrahi, whether to meet the Dalai Lama, whether to expand Heathrow, whether to take part in a TV election debate... and whether to reveal his favourite biscuit.

Nixon said she wants a one - on - one debate with Cuomo, sans the multiple candidates who have appeared in general election debates like in 2010 and 2014.

Being a political obsessive, I will, of course, be sat, glued, in front of the TV for all three election debates.

Tim Montgomerie says NoWhen, just before Christmas, it was announced that Britain would get election debates, we were treated to a brief history of American presidential debates.

But he remained a trusted regular in the election debate spin rooms and TV and radio interviews, solidly defending Tory policies on tricky issues like means testing winter fuel payments.

The general election debate over the NHS has already become an exchange of insults, doubtful assertions and unreliable statistics of the kind that voters find so edifying.

BBC Parliament would be a good choice, if it wasn't for that annoying balance requirement (how about arguing the other parties can also have their leadership election debates televised, they just have to hold a leadership competition...)

The three candidates battled it out in the final general election debate on Wednesday, with plenty of jabs over policy to go around.

Lord Ashcroft and Labour's campaign chiefs agree that election debates cost Conservatives a majority

Cameron stated quite definitely during a question time election debate that he had no intention of cutting tax credits

[citation needed] In a March 2015 Newsnight election debate, he was challenged by Jeremy Paxman as to whether or not he was «tough enough» to be Prime Minister, famously responding, «Hell yes, I'm tough enough», in reference to his reluctance to support air strikes against extremist targets in Syria.

The election debates gave the Liberal Democrats by - election status, and disrupted an already disjointed Tory campaign

The majority owner of ConservativeHome, former Tory Treasurer and mastermind of the party's marginal seats campaign will use a review of the general election campaign to criticise the party leadership's decision to agree to election debates and to campaign on the big society theme.

And even if it does not feature in the British election debate, the idea of replacing means - tested cash benefits with an unconditional, universal weekly payment to every adult citizen as a right of citizenship will soon be tested at the Swiss ballot box, with a referendum on basic income in Switzerland due sometime this year.

After the first of three general election debates on 15 April 2010, a ComRes poll put the Liberal Democrats on 24 %.

Candidates can qualify for the second general election debate by raising and spending at least $ 1 million by October 23rd.

Oguego said that the debate would be organised in collaboration with the Nigeria Election Debate Group (NEDG), Justice, Development and Peace Commission (JDPC) and some broadcasters.

But trying to make any massive constitutional change at the crux of a fractious election debate is not a good idea.

Broadcasters can not justify including Welsh and Scottish nationalists, but not Respect or the Northern Ireland parties, in the TV election debates, says George Galloway.

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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.

One was that Labour's decision to allow Gordon Brown to take part in Britain's first televised election debates was — by that stage in the drama — calculated primarily as a means of damaging David Cameron's chances of an unimpeded advance into Downing Street.

Paul Dacre's paper surprisingly opts not to turn its fire directly on the Labour leader in its headline on the election debate

After a great deal of horse trading, a timetable for the election debates has been set, culminating in a head - to - head between the prime minister, David Cameron, and his opposite number Ed Miliband a week before voters go to the polls.

NY1 and its co-sponsors, WNYC, POLITICO, Citizens Union, Civic Hall, Intelligence Squared, and the Latino Leadership Institute will host the first general election debate Oct. 10, with a live audience at Symphony Space on the Upper West Side.

Common sense tells us that an election debate comes with dangers for the incumbent, but that's no excuse not to participate.

In a Daily Politics election debate, Andrew Neil and the BBC's Home Editor Mark Easton were joined by leading politicians to discuss election policies on home affairs.

Leading politicians debate climate change, energy prices and the countryside in a Daily Politics election debate.

The prime minister has defended Eastleigh by - election Tory candidate Maria Hutchings's decision to drop out of a BBC 5 Live election debate.

But I've hosted many election debates in which the candidates attempted to demonstrate a similar ease, yet failed.

The prime minster was asked about the planned TV election debates, and whether he would attend a head - to - head with Ed Miliband on 30 April.

Green Party leader Natalie Bennett says TV election debates will not be «representative» if the Greens are not included.

The majority of election debates involve candidates from different parties rather than any single political tendency.

Ed Miliband quotes David Cameron from 2010 backing TV election debates, but the prime minister calls him a chicken.

The first general election debate including all three candidates in New York's 21st Congressional District was held Wednesday night and cablecast statewide.

In a Daily Politics Election debate on home affairs, Ms May said: «We've accepted that we have failed to meet that particular target» and the party now has a «credible plan».

NY1 hosts the first general election debate in the race for city comptroller, as Republican challenger and pastor Michel Faulkner faced incumbent and Democrat Scott Stringer from the CUNY Graduate Center.

The leaders of Labour, the Liberal Democrats and UKIP have urged broadcasters to hold TV election debates whether David Cameron takes part or not.

Broadcasters have published new plans for TV election debates, including leaders of seven UK political parties.