Sentences with phrase «party sleaze»

«Many deeply awkward questions about Conservative Party sleaze now present themselves,» she says, «not least the Prime Minister's admission that he and his wife hosted intimate Downing Street dinners for millionaire donors.»

Not exact matches

Fowler points to the parallels between the Conservatives in the early nineties and the present day government, as it wrestles with allegations of sleaze, deep divisions and enmities within the Parliamentary Party, growing fears about the economy and employment, and a series of seemingly unstoppable accidents.

Sleaze at the top of the Scottish Labour Party before 2007.

The Labour Party has been caught out lying and being sleaze ridden, just like the Tories were caught out under Major.

The sort of sleaze scandals that might bring another party low show no sign of damaging the SNP's extraordinary success.

A pledge was made to the «reform of party funding to end sleaze» with the commitment to a law to require all parties to declare the source of all donations above a minimum figure, which Labour already did voluntarily.

The timing means that the public would have had time to thoroughly digest both David Davis's resignation and the recent outbreak of sleaze allegations in the Tory party (Caroline Spelman and various MEPs).

ICM interviewed a random sample of 1,000 adults who were told to ignore their party preference and consider which party leaders have been tainted by sleaze.

Sleaze affects the reputation of all politicians, not just the party concerned with an individual case.

The rightwing, free - market and anti-EU Independence party, whose policies are seen to have led to the collapse, are in disgrace under new leadership, embroiled in a party funding scandal amid allegations of sleaze, and have slumped 17 points in the polls to 22 %.

Writing for The Telegraph Mr Page said: «The party created to fight centralised government, sleaze and corruption has become a parody of itself, a mirror image of the body it professes to loathe.»

The trial would have re-opened the vexed question of parliamentary sleaze during the Tory party conference, and only a year after the government had made strenuous efforts to bury the issue.

The feeling I get is that many see a Labour defeat at the next GE as being a purifying process by which the Labour party can move away from the «sleaze, n, spin» years.

David Cameron has admitted he owes an apology to former Conservative party treasurer Peter Cruddas, who was made an «outcast» by the party after newspaper sleaze allegations.

The fact is that this has brought sleaze back to haunt the Tory Party and Labour along with their media allies will make hay with this.