Sentences with phrase «backed by campaigners»

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Yet it has been the robust response of Hope not Hate and other anti-racist campaigners working with Labour in communities that has pushed back the BNP vote (which remains a worry) not claims by some in Labour that we do not discuss immigration.

BHA Faith Schools Campaigner Richy Thompson commented, «We will continue to campaign for this information to be published, as while we are not opposed to Free Schools, we do have concerns around the diversity of religious and pseudoscientific Free Schools which are being backed to open by the Government, and believe there therefore needs to be more transparency in the approval process.»

Full disclosure: Among the people backing Fordham law professor and former Howard Dean internet director Zephyr Teachout's effort to challenge sitting NY Governor Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary, according to the filings by her and her running mate Tim Wu with the state board of elections: Union Square Ventures» Brad Burnham ($ 20,000), Tumblr founder David Karp ($ 20,000) WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg ($ 5,000), Netflix VP Chris Libertelli ($ 5,000), Kickstarter's Fred Benenson ($ 5,000), campaign finance reform activist Arnold Hiatt ($ 2,500), Lawrence Lessig ($ 2,500), Reddit's Alexis Ohanian ($ 2,500), our own Andrew Rasiej ($ 1,500), Digg's Andrew McLaughlin ($ 1,000), Open Technology Institute's Sascha Meinrath ($ 1,000), Harvard Law School's Jonathan Zittrain ($ 1,000), Duke law prof Jedediah Purdy ($ 1,000), Ben & Jerry's Ben Cohen ($ 1,000), EchoDitto founder and former Dean webmaster Nicco Mele ($ 600), net neutrality campaigner Marvin Ammori ($ 500), Blue State Digital's Joe Rospars ($ 500), Progressive Strategies» Mike Lux ($ 450), former Dean data - wiz Kenn Herman ($ 300), former Dean developer Josh Koenig ($ 250), Fight for the Future's Tiffiniy Cheng ($ 250), MIT's Ethan Zuckerman ($ 250), Brooklyn law prof Jonathan asking ($ 250), Public Campaign's David Donnelly $ 250), former Dean developer Zack Rosen ($ 250), the ACLU «s Christopher Soghoian ($ 100), Sunlight Foundation's Ellen Miller ($ 100), former Dean blogger Mathew Gross ($ 100), and yours truly ($ 100).

BHF chief executive Peter Hollins added:» [Ofcom's] proposal falls way short of the 9 pm watershed ban backed by parents and campaigners alike.

Campaigners said a recent white paper would allow for - profit companies currently being investigated by Congress in Washington to become involved in UK education via government — backed student loans.

A pressure group backed by a string of former Vote Leave campaigners from Michael Gove to Gisela Stuart has claimed that exiting the EU with a «clean Brexit» could save the country # 450m a week.

I am a strong grassroots campaigner — in the 1998 local elections Labour held control of the council because we won back a Lib Dem seat by three votes after a relentless campaign in my ward (Jeremy Corbyn and Stephen Twigg know the work involved)

BHA Faith Schools Campaigner Richy Thompson commented, «It is vitally important that Free School proposals can be properly scrutinised by the public, and this is extremely difficult when we don't know who they are until they are backed by the Government to open — by which point, it is often too late to stop them.

Mr Corbyn also appeared to back up claims by pro-Brexit campaigners that a proposed trade deal between the US and the EU could lead to the privatisation of the NHS.

Gove, a prominent Leave campaigner compared to Machiavellian maestro Frank Underwood in the US TV series House of Cards, was backed by fellow campaigners in his anti-expert stance.

The government claims it is collecting the data to help schools to cope better with pupils with first languages other than English, but privacy campaigners have warned that any agreement not to share the new data with other departments is «in effect, worthless» because it is not backed up by legislation.

But, as water - quality campaigners and sanitation specialists are saying today — World Toilet Day — billions of people, mainly in the poor South, are held back by a lack of this basic benefit.

«If the case for tackling climate change is backed by science, why do so many green campaigners rely on the language of religion?

Campaigners have previously worried that Mayor de Blasio may try to roll back recent environmental initiatives in NYC, and his refusal to bail out Citibike may be seen by some as a nod in that direction.

«You won't insure certain types of cases»: ATE has sat behind a surprising range of cases; it is distinctly possible, for example, that the MPs» expenses scandal would not have been blown open had freedom of information campaigner Heather Brooke not been able to find solicitors work on a CFA, backed by ATE insurance.

The event, backed by actress Joanna Lumley and human rights campaigner Bianca Jagger, aims to raise awareness about the proposed # 350m cuts to family and civil law and the impact they will have on ordinary people's lives.