Sentences with phrase «announced by the conservative»

The plans take Labour further than proposals so far announced by the Conservatives.

Would - be immigrants suffering from tuberculosis would not be allowed to settle in the UK, under proposals announced by the Conservative Party.

The Spectator's Fraser Nelson (now a father - Congratulations Fraser) judged that his inheritance tax announcement was «the single most effective policy ever announced by the Conservatives in Opposition»!

During the 2015 general election campaign, Labour leader Ed Miliband unveiled a policy remarkably similar to the one just announced by the Conservatives.

Even more embarrassingly for the embattled Mr Brown, the report closely mirrors policies announced by the Conservative Party six months ago to start «a decentralised energy revolution» by «enabling every small business, every local school, every local hospital, and every household in the country to generate electricity».

Not exact matches

Speculation about a potential run for office by McMullin, who launched a bid for the White House as an alternative for conservatives dissatisfied with President Donald Trump's candidacy, increased after Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R - Utah) announced earlier this week that he will not seek re-election in 2018.

Prime Minister Harper and the Conservatives will hopefully take these risks into account when they shortly announce their stance on the takeover bids submitted by Petronas and CNOOC, for Progress Energy Resources and Nexen, respectively..

The break down of the talks came as a surprise, especially as it was announced by the resurgent FDP, Merkel's preferred coalition partners who had dropped out of parliament four years ago and had ruled with her conservatives 2009 - 2013.

MENLO PARK, CA — In an effort to ensure the impartiality of content shared on its platform, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Wednesday that the company would address accusations of silencing conservative voices by deleting Barack Obama's profile.

The Liberal's recently announced «Canada Child Benefit» and «Middle Class Tax Cut» are largely funded by eliminating Conservative tax cuts and by the by the introduction of a new high - income tax rate of 33 percent.

The Conservatives» first attempt to get rid of the subsidy, announced in the fall of 2008, triggered the ill - fated bid by opposition parties to form a coalition and replace Harper's minority.

Constitutional Property Rights Flanked by Lethbridge Conservative Member of Parliament Jim Hillyer and Lacombe - Ponoka MLA Rod Fox, Wildrose leader Danielle Smith announced her plans to introduce a motion calling on property rights to be included in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Rick Lazio is also scheduled to be on hand — his first appearance since being trounced by Carl Paladino last Tuesday — and is expected to announce he will remain in the race on the Conservative line (barring some major personal sea change).

Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy today sought to curry favor with conservatives (not to mention the DN and Post editorial pages) by issuing a statement from his campaign spokesman announcing he won't be seeking the Working Families Party line this year, and doesn't think AG Andrew Cuomo — or anyone else for that matter — should, either.

If that message wasn't clear enough, Cameron also announced this week that a Conservative government would carry out an annual review of measures taken by the Scottish government to make sure they don't have an «adverse impact» on the rest of the UK.

The Conservatives plan to announce a new attack on immigration or benefits every single week ahead of the general election, under plans formulated by election strategist Lynton Crosby

Long noted that the Kings County Conservative Party, headed by his longtime ally, Jerry Kassar, has already endorsed Michael Grimm, one of the two announced GOP candidates vying to take on Democratic Rep. Mike McMahon.

The move by employers comes at a time when the Conservatives have announced plans for new laws to curb the rights of public sector unions to take industrial action.

Following Labour's defeat by the Conservative Party at the 2015 general election, Miliband announced his resignation as leader on 8 May 2015.

It will be helpful if George Osborne immediately announces which tax cuts will be enacted by a Conservative government - afforded by the extra green taxation that David Cameron promised yesterday.

«Some senior Conservatives were angry at suggestions that the policy was a «quid pro quo» for the marriage tax allowance... The marriage tax allowance, to be announced by David Cameron at the Tory Party's annual conference, is expected to cost about # 550 million.

After all, Conservative governments went into both the 1992 and 1997 general elections by announcing sharp expenditure restraint for the following Parliament, thus forcing the Labour opposition to either reject or accept those overall spending targets.

For example, the fiscal squeeze that began with the «Geddes Axe» under the UK's last Liberal - Conservative coalition in 1921 - 2 (and implemented in the following three years under three different governments) was also based on spending cuts alone, and went far deeper even than the plans announced by George Osborne.

The Welsh Conservatives have been denounced by their former leader, with one time AM and MP Rod Richards announcing he will not be voting Tory in next month's Welsh election.

[75] In August 2012, Clegg announced that attempts to reform the House of Lords would be abandoned due to opposition for the proposals by backbench Conservative MPs.

The call features the voice of Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long, who surprised political observers last week by declaring his strong support for Gov. Andrew Cuomo's budget plans and announced a campaign of callers, mailers and, if money allows, even TV ads to support the Democratic governor's agenda.

That's $ 1 million less than the $ 2.7 million balance announced yesterday by his GOP / Conservative opponent, Harry Wilson, although $ 2.3 million of that is the former hedge fund manager's own money.

Four contenders are already gearing up for the fight, unaffected by the short delay in calling the by - election announced today by the Speaker: the Liberal Democrats, only 103 votes behind Labour in May, are to be challenged by an anti-coalition Liberal, and the Conservatives, 2300 votes behind the Liberals, fancy their chances too.

Douglas Carswell, the Conservative MP for Clacton, has dropped a bomb by announcing his defection to UKIP, and will fight a by - election to give his constituents the chance to pass judgement on the decision...

«Let's see if we can make history», said Conservative MP Douglas Carswell after he announced that he was defecting to UKIP and resigning his seat in Clacton to fight a by - election for his new party.

Back to Basics was a political campaign announced by British Prime Minister John Major at the Conservative Party conference of 1993 in Blackpool.

But Steele's attendance had been an open question; he declined to participate last month in an RNC debate sponsored by the conservative group FreedomWorks, which was held before he formally announced that he is seeking a second term at the committee.

David Cameron significantly took on an historic, inner - party point of contention by announcing there would be an EU referendum before 2017, dependent on the Conservatives being in power.

The best current example of that instinct in play is the Batley & Spen by - election, where the Conservatives, Lib Dems, Greens and UKIP announced in the immediate aftermath of Jo Cox's horrific death that they wouldn't contest the seat.

The Conservatives warned in the summer rail companies would be forced to put up prices after the DfT announced they needed to raise # 1 billion by 2014.

Today, her wish came true as the Conservative party announced that the whip had been restored - five months after Morris sparked outrage by describing a no - deal Brexit as «the n **** r in the woodpile».

Anthony Senft, a Conservative Islip town board member who was supposed to run for the seat being vacated by Sen. Lee Zeldin as he seeks to oust Democratic Rep. Tim Bishop, announced suddenly that he has terminated his candidacy and officially declined the GOP, Conservative and Independence Party lines.

The business secretary announced the union modernisation fund, attacked this week by the Conservatives, would receive another # 3 million to help unions protect vulnerable workers.

Assemblyman Pete Lopez formally announced his bid to seek the Republican / Conservative nomination for the NY - 19 seat being vacated by Rep. Chris Gibson at the end of next year, joining an increasingly crowded GOP field.

Trump planned to meet with Senate leaders today to discuss his nominee to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, filling the vacancy left by the death last February of conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, and said he'll announce his «truly great» choice next week.

Last month, the American Action Network, a conservative 501 (c) 4 run by former Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman, announced it would spend $ 600,000 to try to oust Maloney during the final weeks of the campaign.

Republican attorney Wendy Long is assured of the endorsement by the state Conservative Party if she announces her candidacy against U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer later this week at the state GOP convention in Buffalo, as expected.

Included in the announced list were new «working peers»: 31 new Labour life peers recommended by Tony Blair to reduce the Tory majority; Paddy Ashdown, the Liberal Democrat leader, recommended 11 new Liberal Democrat life peers; five were recommended by William Hague, the new Conservative Leader.

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Alec announced the formation of the charity in October 2007 «in conjunction with the Atlantic Bridge Group, a non-profit organization chaired by the British Conservative shadow minister for defense, Liam Fox MP».

Conservative MP Alun Cairns said it would be an «extremely interesting» by - election with a battle between the two coalition parties for the Eastleigh seat in Hampshire after the former energy secretary announced his resignation.

The Labour government's 1998 Strategic Defence Review made reductions from the plans announced by the previous Conservative government: [166]

Conservative MP Douglas Carswell has announced that he is to join the UK Independence Party and will stand down as MP for Clacton to seek re-election in a by - election.

Criticising the pay freeze for top earners announced by the chancellor, Alistair Darling, last night, Osborne said: «To sneak out a public sector pay announcement in the middle of a Conservative conference shows these Labour politicians are better at writing books about courage than displaying it,» a reference to Gordon Brown's book Courage: Eight Portraits.

Neumann, who announced his decision on WTMJ radio in Milwaukee, refrained from criticizing Thompson even though the former governor has been the target of attack ads being run statewide by the national conservative Republican group Club for Growth.