Sentences with phrase «leave campaigners for»

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Deceptive campaigns and irresponsible campaigners are most definitely out there, and for now at least, there's little protection for consumers who are left out to dry.

A renowned campaigner against the rising level of poverty in the U.S., his rivals were left speechless after the media reported that he had paid more than $ 400 on two separate occasions for a trim at a popular Rodeo Drive salon.

Campaigners for workers» rights have long lamented that the US is the only industrialised nation that fails to mandate paid leave for new parents.

Leave campaigners promoted a vision of an independent UK playing a leading role in the world, so its important that this leads to better protection for human health.

Leave campaigners said Brexit would free the Government to make its own laws, so we repeat our call for it to step up and do the right thing: protect children from harmful products and protect parents from the misleading marketing that is doing so much to undermine child health.

Vote Leave campaigners previously expressed outrage that Farage had been invited to put the case for their side in the ITV debate.

Many campaigners for change in English football believe the balance of power has shifted entirely to the Premier League, where all the money is — leaving the FA with governance responsibilities but no actual power.

As Leave campaigners looked for a statesmanlike message, the leading Brexiteer was goaded into song.

During the EU referendum, for example, broadcasters were criticised for being too preoccupied with balancing Leave and Remain campaigners at the expense of challenging many of their dubious claims.

And Leave campaigners like Boris Johnson and Michael Gove must be held to account for the promises they made.»

The challenge for the Scottish Labour left is to put these socialist convictions into a different mould: by reaching out not turning in, and building a party - based campaign group that joins with anti-austerity activists, trade unionists, non-aligned socialists and community campaigners to strengthen the broad movement for socialism.

The second problem is that Momentum has become a battleground between three groups within the movement: the traditional (and by now rather old) Labour left, sometimes referred to as Bennites; younger, politically - engaged campaigners; and members of the various small political groupings to the left of the Labour Party, such as The Socialist Workers Party, Alliance for Workers» Liberty and the remnants of the Communist Party of Great Britain.

Last month, trade unionists met with electoral reform campaigners to start putting together a left - wing case for democratic revival.

In typically diplomatic fashion, Pursglove says George Osborne, Theresa May and Boris Johnson are all strong contenders for the role, but he believes a Leave campaigner is more likely to prevail.

As the Chairman of the Fresh Start Group of Conservative MP and leading Leave campaigner he continues to campaign to get the best deal for Britain post Brexit.

A prominent campaigner for remain, the former education secretary has used her position at the helm of the Treasury select committee since losing her cabinet position to press the government over its plans for leaving the EU — often acting as a voice for business in parliament in her efforts to prevent a no - deal Brexit.

Friends of the Earth's transport campaigner David Powell said: «Ministers must also do much more to encourage people to leave their cars at home - this means properly funding safe, convenient and affordable public transport and vastly improved facilities for cyclists and pedestrians.»

Campaigners were left disappointed when the plan published last August stopped short of a hoped - for crackdown on junk food deals and advertising.

McGovern says she stood for election as Progress chair because the group had reached out to her when she was a councillor and she is keen use it as a vehicle to help other Labour campaigners «who are at the moment at risk of being left out».

The Office of National Statistics (ONS) report confirms George Osborne's assurances that he is hitting the rich as hard as the poor, but it may prove difficult for left - wing campaigners to accept.

Last week, the Leave Means Leave campaigners, including Digby Jones and the former Ukip leadership hopeful Steven Woolfe, had arrived with Marmite, cheddar cheese and some Shakespeare for their date with the Brussels negotiator.

«If further evidence were needed about the careless disregard for our security demonstrated by Leave campaigners, by being a Putin apologist, Johnson has provided it.»

The environment secretary faced calls for his resignation today, as Green campaigners warned that a climate change sceptic should not be left at Cabinet level during extreme weather conditions.

Evidence submitted by campaigners highlights the fact that all three groups — Vote Leave, Veterans for Britain and BeLeave — chose to spend their money with the same small data analytics firm, which has a minimal online presence.

Rotherham told openDemocracy that during his time working for Vote Leave, he «was in touch with a range of Eurosceptic campaigners, of which VfB [Veterans for Britain] was one group» — which in itself breaks no rules.

Andrea Leadsom was the favoured candidate for prime minister among a number of prominent Leave campaigners.

Also being investigated are two other leave campaigners: Darren Grimes and Veterans for Britain.

In the Vote Leave submission to the Electoral Commission for designated status as the lead campaigner, they described Rotherham's job with them as «coordinating with specialist researchers working in parallel for allied think tanks and groups... and maintaining formal and informal outreach across the wider Eurosceptic movement.»

Among those who had always been wary of the «project» was Simon Hughes, a campaigner who has held inner city Bermondsey for nearly 20 years, and who represents the party's old Liberal left.

UPPER MANHATTAN — A week after the elementary school shooting in Newtown, Conn., left 27 dead, uptown campaigners are showing their support for an end to gun violence at nightly vigils.

The shock value of the «No» campaign's baby unit posters in the Alternative Vote referendum, or the Leave campaign's Breaking Point» poster of a long queue of migrants show that, under the current free - for - all, campaigners find that courting controversy is worthwhile if there are votes to be won.

But Vote Leave campaigner Gisela Stuart said the EU had been a «disaster» for UK workers and noted the high unemployment levels in eurozone states.

According to The Telegraph, campaigners believe that thousands of children are at a disadvantage for being left - handed following a lack of action from ministers.

The left - leaning Guardian newspaper of Britain has put the Danish political scientist Bjorn Lomborg — anathema to many environmental scientists and campaigners for challenging projections of ecological doom — on a list of «50 People Who Could Save the Planet» with the Nobel Peace Prize winners Al Gore and Wangari Maathai, the movie star and environmental filmmaker Leonardo DiCaprio, and NASA climatologist Gavin Schmidt.

The climate writer and campaigner Bill McKibben (left) met for a beer in Chico, Calif., with Anthony Watts, a former broadcast meteorologist who runs a blog challenging many aspects of climate change science.

He worked largely under the radar in his many years in the government climate science bureaucracy, but became a passionate defender of climate science and campaigner for cuts in greenhouse gas emissions as a blogger and speaker after leaving government in 2005.

In fact, if one digs deeply enough, I'm confident that significant money (more than just millions) moves among the Fenton - affiliated organizations, NGOs like WWF, radical groups and left - of - center politicians, campaigners and, indeed, probably funding for academic research into climate «disruption», which may be a Fenton - coined term.

This week's senate vote to end subsidies for ethanol has left campaigners worried the renewables sector is next, that tax credits and deductions will be scrapped in favour of the Republican austerity measure to reduce the deficit.

For too long it has been held hostage by a minority of hard left, deep green activists whose anti-capitalist agenda has been given a veneer of respectability by the intervention of high end law firms, glossy environmental consultancies, Hollywood campaigners, «caring» grassroots pressure groups, expert scientific witnesses, «independent» moviemakers and sympathetic mainstream media coverage.

Veteran lawyer and political campaigner Ralph Lean has called for firms to better accommodate those who wish to work into their 70s, as he leaves Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP for Heenan Blaikie LLP.

«The judicial review system is not a promotional tool for countless left - wing campaigners,» he began in an article for the Daily Mail.

Darren Grimes, far left, posing for a photograph with Michael Gove, a leading Vote Leave campaigner who is now Britain's environment secretary, at the campaign's headquarters in February 2016.