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Energy and climate change secretary Ed Davey led attacks against the Conservatives at the start of the Brighton conference, telling the Observer newspaper «tea - party Tories» were threatening his environmental agenda.

Hazel Blears delivered a pugilistic speech to the Labour party conference this afternoon, saying she expects a real «fight» against the Conservatives at the next election.

I've now had chance to sit down and play with the election results and the picture is as bleak for Labour as Stephen paints — for various reasons, the electoral system has now tilted against Labour in the same way it was tilted against the Conservatives at the last few elections.

Not exact matches

Both Grillo and Berlusconi campaigned against the austerity measures implemented by technocrat Prime Minister Mario Monti at the urging of Germany's conservative chancellor Merkel.

The George W. Bush appointee isn't merely an outspoken critic of affirmative action today — he was among the most hostile questioners in Fisher and a virtual lock to vote against Texas» admissions policy — but also was part of a conservative alumni group at Princeton that was sharply critical of such policies 40 years ago, when Sotomayor was attending classes there.

A number of Conservative MPs have already revolted against Osborne's proposed Brexit spending cuts, with at least 65 signing a letter saying they would not back such a move, calling them a «punishment.»

At a vote to extend the previous bailout package in February, a record number of dissenters from the chancellor's conservative camp showed growing impatience with the anti-austerity government in Athens, with 29 voting against it.

The document's author also wrote that employees with conservative political beliefs are discriminated against at Google and lamented about how «leftist» ideology is harmful.

Either it means that other members of his party — the finance minister, who is against the referendum — will come in and not hold a referendum at all, and try to keep Greece on the austerity plan, or there will be a fall in the government, a no - confidence vote, and people will presumably vote for the Conservative Party, which is very much like the Republican Party in the United States.

Rosenstein's comments came at the end of a wide - ranging conversation at the Newseum in Washington to commemorate Law Day, which happened to fall a day after the Washington Post reported that conservative allies of President Trump had drafted impeachment articles against the Justice Department's No. 2 official.

Last month, Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee invited Hardaway and Richardson to speak at a hearing on «Filtering Practices of Social Media Platforms» as poster children for Facebook's bias against conservatives.

Any future conservative Alberta government would also likely try to reimpose the longstanding unconstitutional limitation on union membership by farm workers included in Bill 6, which was at the heart of the fury against the bill.

Sir Sayyid gathered around him at Aligarh some leading Muslim intellectuals who sought to defend Islam not only against Christian missionaries but also against the conservative Muslim outlook which provided the occasion for Christian attacks on Islam.

Reuters: Saudi clerics protest against appointing women to advisory body Dozens of Saudi clerics staged a rare protest in front of the Royal Court on Tuesday against King Abdullah's decision to appoint women to a body that advises the government on new laws, a sign of growing conservative unease at modest social reforms.

Throughout his career he has been at the vanguard of conservative battles against abortion and gay marriage.

Here we arrive at a paradox that Jerry Z. Muller's anthology of conservative thought richly highlights: conservatism is that theory which aims to protect sound practice against corrosive and corrupting theory.

Back in 2008 I wrote a post called «A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Polls» to address how surprised I was at the way Conservative Evangelical Christians were embracing the idea of a woman for Vice President while at the same time standing against women being ordained as pastors.

Certainly the conservatives learned an important lesson from the war and struggled thereafter to promote equality at home, to fight against the shortsightedness and personal greed polluting our air and rivers, to champion safer foods and medicines, to extend the promise of American freedom to a broader and broader cross-section of the population?

And on campus many Christians have found that we really need Muslims to help us withstand the assaults of pagans in the department of religion and at the local shopping mall, I've watched conservative evangelical, Bible - thumping Christian students link up with conservative, Qur» an - thumping Muslim students — they are brought together by the realization that in many subtle and disturbing ways the modern university is aligned against belief in and fidelity to any God.

Fair play to him scoring 8 out of 8 matches but his major problems are the facts he needs 5 clear cut chances before putting one away, just like with the opening match against Romania, he already missed 3 sitters before netting, I will love to see the stats and look at how many chances he had in these 8 games before scoring the 8, probably 20 to be conservative.....

Hoping against hope that the conservative Wenger changes it at half time and brings on Giroud for either per or kolasinac and reverts to a back four.

A needlessly conservative performance from Manchester United was punished with embarrassing Champions League elimination as Jose Mourinho's side fell to a sloppy 2 - 1 defeat against Sevilla at Old Trafford on Tuesday night.

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died this week at age 79 and while many wanted to dissect the politics of the conservative who fought (for some, the good fight) against liberalism, others were more, or at least equally, interested in how he died (conspiracy theories aside)-- alone, doing what he loved, hunting, with his -LSB-...]

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died this week at age 79 and while many wanted to dissect the politics of the conservative who fought (for some, the good fight) against liberalism, others were more, or at least equally, interested in how he died (conspiracy theories aside)-- alone, doing what he loved, hunting, with his loved ones nowhere near.

Last year, Corbyn's support soared after caretaker leader Harriet Harman instructed Labour MPs to abstain from voting against the Conservative's welfare bill at the second reading.

The existing law is good at stopping Banksy from offering free prints to those voting against the Conservatives in the election but anything more subtle remains a challenge.

This fear of an NRA backlash might, at least in part, explain why Republican senators continue to vote against gun control legislation that's popular with their own conservative constituents.

Theresa May is expected to approve the creation of about 10 Conservative peers and at least one for the Democratic Unionist party, perhaps as early as Friday, in an attempt to improve her position in the House of Lords, which has voted 15 times against her government over Brexit.

He stood unsuccessfully for Parliament in Brighton Kemptown at the 1987 general election against the Conservative MP Andrew Bowden.

Still, at least the apparent willingness of Conservative and Liberal Democrat voters to vote against the SNP might help ensure that some seats remain beyond the SNP's grasp.

Trump administration officials and conservative Republicans are also upset that Frelinghuysen voted against the tax cut bill — Trump's biggest legislative achievement — and initially balked at repealing Obamacare.

The prime minister used his address at the lord mayor's banquet last night to send a clear signal to the 81 Conservative rebels who revolted against him en masse over an EU referendum last month.

A flurry of phone calls was placed over the weekend in hopes of pushing former Rep. Joe DioGuardi off the Conservative line to make way for the winner of the primary between the two Republicans placed on the ballot at the convention last week in the race against Democratic US Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.

Maziarz and Erie County Conservative Party Chairman Ralph Lorigo remain at odds over the local support for Democrat Chuck Swanick's candidacy against Sen. Mark Grisanti.

This appeared to be coming into fruition after his announcement at the Conservative party conference last month when he announced he would be changing the law to make it clearer that homeowners could defend their property against intruders — allowing the use of force which might «in the cold light of day appear disproportionate».

McLaughlin told the crowd at the Conservative Party's confab that he hadn't ruled out running against McDonald, R - Saratoga, but said redistricting had a lot riding on the decision.

(Members of the conservative John Birch Society spent Wednesday at the Capitol lobbying against a bill calling for Congress to convene a national convention to propose amendments to the U.S. Constitution.)

The party is polling at 45 % (an increase of one point), against the Conservatives» 37 % (a decrease of one point).

Members of the conservative John Birch Society spent Wednesday at the Capitol lobbying against a bill calling for Congress to convene a national convention to propose amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

I mean his personal popularity across the UK plummeted to it's lowest level ever in the autumn but, and this may come as a genuine shock to some, he is a Conservative prime minister at the end of the day, and more than this, he is a Conservative prime minister addressing Scottish people, 83 % of whom voted against him at the General Election and many of whom are still a bit miffed about that whole poll tax business.

It would probably be a Conservative / Labour marginal but in 2001 it was won by an Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern candidate, Dr Richard Taylor, on the back of a campaign against the closure of the casualty unit at Kidderminister hospital.

He faces a more real threat from energy and climate change secretary Chris Huhne, who has been at the forefront of dissent against the Conservatives» approach to the rejected alternative vote referendum.

For a hint of where Gordon Brown and his chancellor might go, look at the most recent PMQs, in which Brown attacked the Conservatives» inheritance tax cut proposals and used David Cameron's Etonian background against him.

It covers Margaret Thatcher's premiership from 1983 - 1987, when she was at the height of her powers and against many odds saw off most of her political foes, both within and outside the Conservative Party.

GOP US Senate hopeful Bruce Blakeman was in Western NY yesterday, and spent some time during an editorial board meeting at The Buffalo News to attack his primary opponents, casting them as too liberal to run on the Republican and Conservative lines against Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.

The messages, attributed to Tory candidate Dan Watkins, who stood against Sadiq Khan in Tooting at the 2015 election, refer to Mr Gani by name, and invite him to the Conservative Muslim Forum held in the constituency in November.

There, at a Planned Parenthood rally, he railed against President Donald Trump and «extreme conservative zealots,» then met with City Council leaders about how he should intercede at the Housing Authority, a city agency.

The problem is not so much that a number of Conservatives voted against the government - in fact, rebel Tory votes tipped the balance only once, in the unusual circumstances of the multiple rebellion on the European Economic Area amendment - or even that rather more Conservative peers didn't vote at all, because the government whips managed to bring in more than usual.

Fiscally conservative groups including Unshackle Upstate argue against public financing for elections as nothing more than «labor's latest effort to enhance their political influence at the expense of taxpayers.»

I have no doubt that the Conservative Party will make major gains in votes and seats in the next 10 years that will build to their return to power ultimately, but they are a long way off actually winning a majority and it has to be said that a Hung Parliament now looks more improbable than at any time since 2001, demographic factors are working against the Conservative Party as well - Labour seats mostly are held with far lower turnouts which is partly why Labour can get fewer votes than the Conservatives and end up with an overall majority and far more seats than the Conservative Party.