Sentences with phrase «after the general election last»

I was sceptical and still am, although we learned after the general election last year to treat the published opinion polls with extreme caution.

He also said Gordon Brown rejected an offer to go into coalition with the Lib Dems after the general election last year.

«We paid a big price for combining the AV referendum with the first elections to be held after the general election last year.»

Not exact matches

After failing to predict the Conservative Party's victory in last year's general election, the U.K.'s pollsters were under pressure.

Not only did she have a general election to think about last September, but she also had to contend with six months of cross-party negotiations after the election failed to deliver her ruling Christian Democratic bloc enough seats to form a government.

Only weeks after the last general election, a Mail on Sunday poll showed that 63 % of people in the UK supported scrapping Trident to reduce the deficit.

Opposition MPs will be delighted at this development after Cameron repeatedly taunted Gordon Brown for his Downing Street tantrums before the last general election.

He also claimed that the Tories» private polling last year, unlike the published polls which suggested a hung Parliament after the general election, pointed to a majority for David Cameron and the Conservatives.

While the Berks County legislator, a longtime advocate of limited government who billed himself as the true conservative in the primary, has neither encouraged or discouraged the nascent write - in movement, which began to take shape only a few days after the state's bruising primary election — a lopsided contest in which the heavily - favored attorney general and the GOP establishment unleashed a last - minute barrage of negative ads against Rohrer's insurgent candidacy.

After the shock of last week's poll suggesting that Labour might lose their first general election in Wales since 1918, what message emerges from the local elections about the prospects for June 8th?

When Theresa May's Conservative government hobbled back into Downing Street, bloodied and bruised, after 2017's general election, the smart money was on the British prime minister not lasting until Christmas.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Preet for New York attorney general is a political action committee filed with the Federal Election Committee last week, just days after Eric Schneiderman resigned as New York's top law enforcement officer.

Mr Farron quit last week, within days of the General Election, after facing scrutiny over his Christian views.

Speaking before the publication of his anticipated political memoir, written after his party was reduced to eight seats in last year's general election, Clegg hit out at David Cameron and his Conservative partners in government.

The Pennsylvania hopeful said she was texting other women candidates last Tuesday night as woman after woman moved onto the general election in the four states.

However, you seem to imply that just by announcing the proposed cut (sometime last year I think) it would somehow go directly into the consciousness of voters who aren't political obsessives and so make a difference to the LD ratings The truth is that for the LD's it will take a general election campaign and Clegg / Cable / Hune hammering the issue home in debate after debate after debate for it to register with people who don't pay much attention to the ups and downs of everyday politics, let alone the tax proposals of the 3rd party.

An astonishing surge in membership after defeat for the Yes campaign in last year's independence referendum was followed by an SNP landslide in May's general election, when the party won 56 of Scotland's 59 constituencies.

Just after Labour lost last May's general election, we surveyed its grassroots members as part of a study of party membership in 21st Century Britain.

These are some of the groups formed by Conservative MPs after the last general election.

Ultimately, what matters more to Labour members, it seems, is having a leader who, as well as being a good communicator, is in touch with ordinary people and has strong political beliefs — something that is especially true for those who joined after rather than before the last general election.

The former work and pensions secretary, whose resignation from the cabinet and criticism of Gordon Brown last June nearly toppled the prime minister, has told his constituency Labour party in Stalybridge and Hyde he will be standing down as their MP but that his decision is personal and, after 20 years in the Westminster political system, no reflection on Labour's chances at the next general election.

He was followed by Boris Johnson who is standing down this year after being elected the Tory MP for Uxbridge in last year's general election.

It is an ineluctable fact: poll after poll has shown that most Britons are strongly against the expansion of the EU's power - and an even greater majority demand the referendum promised by all three main parties in their manifestos at the last General Election.

Cllr Morris was shortlisted for Arundel and South Downs before the last General Election and after Michael Howard had «sacked» Howard Flight.

After the last general election the party intrusted a whole host of negotiators many of them unelected spads to thrash out deals on behalf of the party behind closed doors with no mandate from the membership whatsoever.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions is scheduled to appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee less than one week after James Comey told the committee he could not discuss openly certain information about Sessions» recusal from the investigation into Russia's election meddling last year.

Paul Kenny, general secretary of the GMB union, pointed out that the Conservatives formed a government after the last election despite winning fewer than 40 % of votes.

The investigation was launched last month after the story appeared, with the inspector general's office launching a probe that included 25 sworn interviews, including Sugarman and elections commissioners.

Eventual Winners The EIU special reports concluded last month, separately prepared on country - by - country analysis ahead of the elections and released from London over the weekend, said Nana Akufo - Addo will become the eventual winner and President of Ghana after an «acrimonious» contest in the November general election, while Mrs. Clinton will defeat Mr. Trump in the US polls.

George Osborne announced the move to a national living wage in his summer budget last year, shortly after the general election.

«Preet for New York Attorney General» is a political action committee filed with the Federal Election Committee last week, just days after Eric Schneiderman resigned as New York's top law enforcement officer.

President Nana Akufo - Addo appointed Blakofe as the Deputy CEO in February last year after she massively campaigned for him in the 2016 general elections.

They want to make the last few days» double - dealing, backroom negotiations and associated uncertainty a fixture after every future general election.

She was made shadow minister for the disabled by Jeremy Corbyn in 2015 and was promoted to the shadow cabinet after last year's general election.

It is extraordinary that she is still on the candidates» list after her performance in Cheltenham at the last General Election.

She attracted a storm of protest before the last UK general election by implying that then Labour party leader Ed Miliband was on the autistic «spectrum» after one of his speeches.

Part of the resolution which propelled the meeting was hinged on the fact that the party has been ran on court injunctions which have been a clog in its wheel after ceding the central to the ruling All Progressive Congress, APC at the last general elections.

But after sending shockwaves around the political world last night, the pollsters quickly stressed the drawbacks of their new model for the 2017 general election.

The energy that was built up during and after the General Election campaign last year seems to have dissipated.

After a strong start following last year's general election, the SNP MPs in Westminster have proven themselves to be everything that Labour is not.

The Liberal Democrats will be looking for an signs of recovery after disaster at the last General Election in 2015 which saw them dip from more than 50 MPs to just 8.

Vanguard however gathered that the attitude of many of the officers and soldiers being referred to, particularly those serving in the Southern part of the country, is not unconnected with recent investigations into the conduct of security personnel during the last general elections in the country whereby personnel who were performing their duties in accordance with the «laws of the land» are the victims of petitions and investigation, after allegedly «taking sides».

The interview, which came after Corbyn refused to answer questions about a potential early general election from an ITV reporter earlier in the day, sowed confusion about Labour's Brexit strategy, which had appeared clearer since a shadow Brexit team led by Keir Starmer was appointed last month.

Nick Timothy, who quit the prime minister's office after last year's general election, claimed the former education secretary and universities minister blocked proposals to reduce interest rates on student loan repayments and allow institutions to charge different fees.

The Lib Dems have got to make gains if they're to begin to recover after last year's disastrous general election.

The contest was called after Phil Woolas, who won the seat last year by a margin of 103, was found guilty of lying about his Liberal Democrat opponent in the general election.

The shadow Northern Ireland secretary, who challenged Corbyn for his party's leadership in 2016, was brought on to the Labour frontbench after last year's general election.

Blakofe earned the spot of a Deputy CEO via President Nana Akufo - Addo's appointment in February last year after she massively campaigned for him in the 2016 general elections.

The wash - up period is the last few days while a Parliament of the United Kingdom continues to sit after the Prime Minister has announced the date when Parliament will be dissolved so a general election can be held but before Parliament has been formally adjourned, prorogued or dissolved.

In February 1974 — the last instance of a hung parliament following a general election — Labour won 301 seats and the Conservatives 297, but the then Tory prime minister, Edward Heath, remained at Downing Street until the Monday after the election as he tried to form an alliance with the Liberals.