Sentences with phrase «bitter over election»

Chris Grayling, speaking after peers defeated tax credit changes, said opponents in the Lords were still bitter over election result

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Set against the challenge of reducing the country's deficit over the coming years, education is likely to be a bitter battleground in the election, writes Katie Razzall.

The challenge of reducing the country's deficit over the coming years means education is likely to be a bitter battleground in the election.

Boakai has waged a bitter legal battle over problems with queue control and voter identification in the October 10 first round, and said he would accept the result provided the National Elections Commission (NEC) met «all of the standards».

This is a Prime Minister who got ready for an election when he thought he could win it, then was too frightened to hold it, then has dragged out this miserable parliament to its fullest, bitter end, dithering and vacillating over every decision; a Prime Minister no one ever elected kept in office by Lord Mandelson who no one voted for at all, and who should have had the moral courage and political decisiveness to hold an election long ago.»

2012 December - Deputy PM Uhuru Kenyatta and former minister William Ruto - bitter political rivals facing trial at the International Criminal Court over the 2007 post-election violence - confirm that are forming an alliance for the 2013 election.

The stage for the election was set last winter when Jonathan Wilson, a 12 - year board member, publicly declared his homosexuality during a bitter debate over a proposed curriculum on sexual orientation.

The bitter frustration is that — with a very few exceptions — none of this was investigated or probed by the mainstream media, which has retained a myopic obsession over forward estimates, the outlying budget forecasts that surely must rank as the most irrelevant and unreliable metric that has ever been centre stage of an election campaign.