Sentences with phrase «at hustings»

Daily Mail 29/5/17: «The Tory candidate, hoping to win the seat represented by murdered MP Jo Cox, has apologised after she made an unfortunate joke at a hustings about no one being shot.

Labour's national executive committee has shortlisted Claudia Webbe, Brenda Dacres, Janet Daby and Sakina Sheikh as its four candidates who will be put to a members» vote at a hustings this weekend.

IDS beat him out of sight at the hustings meetings in their leadership election.

«The meeting came after five of the hopefuls made their case to the GMB union at a hustings which saw Mr McDonnell win loud applause by attacking Margaret Thatcher's cuts in the 1980s.

Mr Corbyn is set to address the Parliamentary Labour Party today at hustings ahead of this summer's leadership campaign.

Mr Smith and Ms Eagle appeared alongside the embattled Labour leader at a hustings designed to help pick one contender.

The second was Yvette Cooper telling the audience at a hustings in Nottingham there was nothing she was prepared to say that Ed got wrong during his five years in charge.

LabourList reports the disgusting remarks at a hustings of John McDonnell, the Left - wing candidate for the Labour leadership, who is unlikely to reach the ballot paper due to lack of support:

At the hustings, he will pledge to repeal ID cards legislation and tackle social injustice and inequality «at home and abroad».

Also at the hustings, the five MPs were asked whether they supported the government's plan to lower the annual welfare cap from # 26,000 to # 23,000.

Mr Brown is concerned the candidates» comments at hustings have reinforced Conservative claims of a lurch to the left.

Scenes include May at a hustings event during her leadership bid and Johnson holding a curry night with his supporters.

Corbyn made the comments at a hustings hosted by the Guardian at which the candidates also clashed on the economic record of the Blair and Brown era, and Labour's approach to Europe.

Over the past few months, I've spent many evenings watching Goldsmith and Khan debate each other at hustings around the capital.

Representatives from the Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats spoke to Premier at a hustings held by the international Christian humanitarian charity, Tearfund on Wednesday night.

Not exact matches

After retiring from football, former Druids and Wales international goalkeeper Harry Adams became a member of the National Conservative League's Cyclist Corps, an organisation that help organise hustings and polling stations at elections until the 1906 General Election in the United Kingdom.

But he was taken aback at the GMB hustings event when all of the candidates were asked whether they supported the government's plan to lower the annual welfare cap to # 23,000.

As the pair went head - to - head in hustings at Gateshead, the Pontypridd MP launched a series of vehement attacks on the Labour leader.

Jacobs told me Cuomo will soon hit the hustings with some of the Senate Democrats» candidates in key districts and «doesn't look at this as a race for him alone.»

At a climate change hustings in Exeter, Labour's Ben Bradshaw admitted to once having an antinuclear sticker on his car though he has since changed his mind about how we keep the lights on.

Labour's tournament felt like a game of Snap when the four players at the table would slap down policies at an endless round of hustings, but now it's high - stakes Pontoon time.

The pair spoke at a special hustings event in a packed committee room in the Palace of Westminster.

Speaking at a Unions Together hustings in June she said

At least MPs no longer duel with the neighbours or take loaded pistols to the hustings

The candidates from the three main parties took part in a hustings debate in front of a healthy crowd at Uppermill Civic Hall yesterday.

As the three candidates vying to replace Angus Robertson as Scottish National party deputy leader appear at crowded hustings events across the country, one question is dominating the debate: when should the party leader and first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, call another independence referendum?

All three deputy leadership candidates attended and continue to answer questions about referendum timing at local hustings.

At last night's hustings, the Yorkshire MP took heart from the fortunes of the Doncaster Rovers, who beat David Cameron's football team, Aston Villa, in the Carling Cup.

The comments come after Labour MP Jack Dromey was filmed also criticising Corbyn's leadership — and then warmly greeting the leader when he showed up at the Labour leadership hustings in Birmingham.

I'm interviewing @JackDromeyMP at labour leadership hustings and this happens!

A hustings for the benefit of MPs will take place in a room at the Commons at 1 pm on Monday, and MPs will be able to nominate up until 5 pm on Wednesday.

Speaking at a BBC Radio 5 Live hustings, Burnham tried to downplay worries about the contest and categorically ruled out launching legal action, while Cooper, Kendall and Corbyn also said they saw no grounds for contesting the result.

I have also encountered this argument from the Lib Dems at various constituency hustings.

At the end of the first hustings, an apparent Respect supporter who had heckled from the side - lines throughout asked Naz Shah a question as she was leaving for the night:

But at the many hustings held in the run up to May 7, it was clear that many who had supported Galloway in 2012 were now disillusioned.

It was no surprise, then, that the first hustings at the Carlisle Business Centre in Bradford West attracted national and international media attention.

Guido understands there is a hustings at the weekend and the decision is imminent.

Guido Fawkes reports that Ukip hustings are set to take place at the weekend with six Kippers in the frame.

So it's a good job the Wakefield MP had her wits about her as the Mirror's Kevin Maguire chucked an unexpected question her way at the GMB Labour leadership hustings.

At the same hustings, Yvette Cooper refused to give a yes or no and spoke instead about the «need to reform the legislation».

Andy Burnham was jeered at a GMB hustings when he refused to say outright whether he was opposed to an annual benefits cap of # 23,000.

Candidates will also be «stress tested» at open, televised hustings in areas of the country where the party failed at the election.

The admission, during a hostile phone - in with BBC radio listeners, came after Mr Smith was shouted down at a Labour women's hustings with Jeremy Corbyn in Westminster.

On the evening of 9 June, just hours after nominations for the Labour leadership closed, the New Statesman hosted the first official leadership hustings at Church House in Westminster.

As the New Statesman hustings showed, the battle for the leadership of the Labour Party has at its h

Ahead of a leadership hustings debate at the Local Government Association conference this week, Mr Miliband even pledged to invite Labour's local government leader, at present David Sparks, into the shadow cabinet if he is elected party leader.

Anthony Boutall, the president of the association, said: «There was a great deal of noise at the OUCA hustings on Sunday.

Ed Balls was in good form at last night's Labour leadership hustings at the TUC conference, producing a string of jokes which rather suggested that he thinks the contest is all over as far as he's concerned.

At numerous hustings and meetings with members, they spoke of their liberal values, the direction they think we should go, and how to best rebuild the party over the coming months and years.

On Tuesday evening at Unite Scotland's HQ in Glasgow the two candidates for leader of the Labour Party in Scotland, Richard Leonard MSP and Anas Sarwar MSP, spoke at one of the first hustings to take place in Scotland.