Sentences with phrase «liberal democrats claim»

Progressive liberal Democrats claim to be the party of tolerance and inclusiveness and insist that they support women and minorities far more than those bad, intolerant and mean conservative...

Hunt demands we «stop scaremongering about privatisation that isn't happening», and the Liberal Democrats claim they «stopped Conservative privatisation plans» (utter nonsense), but the evidence is everywhere.

The Liberal Democrats claim they have scored a significant victory by preventing security and intelligence agency material only being heard in secret.

And the blanket figure masks «alarming regional differences,» the Liberal Democrats claim, with an 80 per cent rise recorded in London and the south - west.

Government to reduce level of empty military homes after Liberal Democrats claim one in five family homes are empty.

The government said it will seek to reduce the number of empty homes maintained by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) after the Liberal Democrats claimed it was wasting more than # 25 million a year on unoccupied properties.

As Labour MPs voted with Tories, the Liberal Democrats claimed that the two parties were «holding hands towards a hard Brexit».

Gordon Brown will not be able to avoid the political fallout from a house - price cash, the Liberal Democrats claimed today.

The liberal Democrat claimed repeatedly, contrary to established and recorded facts, that Mark - Viverito had not already expressed her opposition to broadening the city's compliance with Trump's enforcement officers.

Mayor Bill de Blasio defended his administration's legal effort to avoid divulging the disciplinary history of the NYPD officer who killed black Staten Islander Eric Garner in 2014 — even as the liberal Democrat claimed to support releasing such records in principle.

Reflecting on the vote, the Liberal Democrats claimed the results endorse the three - party system.

Today the Liberal Democrats claimed the government was failing child asylum seekers, with ten trafficked children disappearing from local authority care every month.

Meanwhile, the Liberal Democrats claims that prison overcrowding is forcing the government to house prisoners in court cells, at a cost of more than # 1,800 a night.

The Liberal Democrats claimed up to 250,000 children living in poverty across England will lose their free lunches as a result of the Tory plan.

Not exact matches

VICTORIA — Fentanyl overdoses are projected to claim a record number of lives in British Columbia this year, but the BC Liberal government has failed to provide adequate, accessible pathways to treatment for people and families desperately seeking mental health and addiction services, said New Democrat leader John Horgan.

I'll leave it to others to debate his definitions of liberalism and other political philosophies, and there's a whole other debate to be had about whether his leadership of the Liberal Democrat party was doomed by his Christian faith, as he claims, or his failure to return a higher number of MPs at this year's General Election.

The group add that Hinds is not the only one receiving money from the Catholic Bishops» Conference, they claim Labour and the Liberal Democrats were also donated money in return for interns in their offices.

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Liberal Democrat schools spokesman David Laws said: «It is truly extraordinary that this government's spin operation has got so out of control that even the ASA is having to rap them on the knuckles for blatantly untruthful claims.

Both the Liberal Democrats and Labour are steering clear of the debate, claiming they have better things to do than indulge the Tories.

Following the victory, Lib Dem leader Tim Farron claimed: «The message is clear: The Liberal Democrats are back and we are carrying the torch for all of those who want a real opposition to this Conservative Brexit Government.

The Liberal Democrats were quick to seize on the news with former leader Nick Clegg claiming: «The resignation of somebody as experienced as Sir Ivan Rogers is a body blow to the Government's Brexit plans.»

She claims they are getting «one or two Liberal Democrat switchers to the Conservatives».

The government has refused to comment on the claims by the two Liberal Democrats but this morning the Chinese government let it be known it was unhappy with any suspicion of its motives for investing.

Liberal Democrats in government have gone to war with Michael Gove over his free schools policy, which it is now claimed is costing 30,000 school places.

The partisan divide between the core cities Cabinet's leadership and the Conservative - Liberal Democrat government is now being put aside in pursuit of the common goal of economic growth, experts claim.

Clegg claimed on Monday that Lords reform was the Tory offering in exchange for Liberal Democrat support over the constituency boundaries review, but Cameron is now insisting the actual deal was over the AV referendum.

16:04 - Next, the deputy PM rebuts the claim that Lords reform is a «Liberal Democrat crusade», and then that the Commons shouldn't concern itself with Lords reform.

Deputy prime minister and Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg was said to have exerted pressure on the issue, but Mr Gove claimed the two were in agreement.

The Oldham East and Saddleworth MP was alleged to have claimed Liberal Democrat challenger Elwyn Watkins had tried to «woo» Muslim extremists on the first day of a five - day hearing.

The Liberal Democrats have launched an investigation into the way the party handles harassment claims after allegations of sexual impropriety were made against Lord Rennard.

David Cameron «fooled» the Conservative party over the precise nature of the boundary changes agreement, a Liberal Democrat peer has claimed.

Meanwhile, in Bristol, Labour activists claimed that «Bristol First» candidate George Ferguson was a Liberal Democrat in disguise.

Meanwhile the party which made the greatest claim to the centre ground — the Liberal Democrats — was virtually annihilated.

He was honest enough not to over claim the Liberal Democrats» chances in the election.

The Liberal Democrats like every other party issued expense claim rules to its members.

If voters believe Cameron's tendentious claim that his party has moved closer to Clegg's they might find it easier to vote Conservative in seats currently held by the Liberal Democrats.

The SNP will swoop on the Scottish results, claiming that a Cameron Government would have no mandate to govern there, with or without the Liberal Democrats.

Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable claims there is no evidence that immigration impacts wages.

The Greens are currently claiming on ITV that the collapse in Lib Dem support and switch to them reflects the toxicity of their association with the Conservative Party: #BESFactCheck suggests that it is more likely reflect the fact that voters do not credit the Liberal Democrats with any of the major successes or the failures of the coalition government: fewer than one in five voters believe that the Lib Dems in government have been responsible for the upturn in the economy, changes in the NHS, changes in levels of crime, changes in levels of immigration and changes in the standards of education.

Menzies Campbell today rejected claims the Liberal Democrats were soft on crime and said tackling this issue was his top priority.

A Liberal Democrat councillor has claimed he is being bullied by Labour councillors on Leicester city council.

If they signalled they wouldn't do so, two immediate points of interest come to mind: 1) If Labour were the largest party, or even in a whole UK majority, but the Tories were the largest rump UK party, the Liberal Democrats could more easily claim a renewed coalition with the Conservatives was preferable to a centre - left alliance, since a government that would lose its majority within a year would be unable to govern effectively; 2) A Labour or Labour - led government following a «yes» vote would have an incentive to push back the date of independence as far as possible.

Gillibrand will try and distance herself from Obama and claim not to be a Washington insider when in reality she has been in DC since 2006 and did a 180 degree turn from a Conservative Democrat from 2006 - 2009 to the most Liberal Senator in the US.

Where the party do gain a platform at the debates, they will be accompanied by the Green Party, UKIP, the Scottish National Party and Plaid Cymru — parties which now occupy the outsider status which the Liberal Democrats once claimed.

Given the SNP are unlikely to support a Queen's Speech unless they are needed to, and if they are needed then both SNP and LD voting together is incompatible with Nick Clegg's claim that,» I would never recommend to the Liberal Democrats that we help establish a government which is basically on a life support system, where Alex Salmond could pull the plug any time he wants.»

At best, the Liberal Democrats will be able to claim, as they are doing now, that the economic recovery happened thanks to their moderating influence over their Conservative partners, but even here they will have to tread carefully.

When Mr Clegg announced the end of the proposals last month, he claimed the Tories had broken the coalition «contract» and that, as a result, his Liberal Democrat MPs could no longer support changes to constituency boundaries for the 2015 general election.

Even the Liberal Democrats, with their belief in finding and claiming the middle ground, won't be able to pull that off.

Upon the basis of the coalition's record in office, the Liberal Democrats can legitimately claim to have delivered — at least in part — on the first three steps.