Sentences with phrase «campaign groups»

Co-ordination between campaign groups is illegal under UK electoral law unless their expenditure is counted together — a law designed to ensure that no one can get around campaign spending limits by setting up front groups.

The firm was used by a range of different Leave campaign groups, who between them paid # 3.3 m for its services during the referendum.

(CNN)- Not wasting a minute, Democratic campaign groups in Congress are bringing Rep. Paul Ryan's budget plan — which he's set to release Tuesday — into the line of fire, attempting to make it a wedge issue in the 2014 midterm elections.

NHS campaign groups have succesfully challenged the government in court - though this is becoming harder.

Yet over the final two months of the Brexit campaign, several pro-Leave campaign groups (Vote Leave, the DUP, Veterans for Britain — and bizarrely, a 23 year old fashion student named Darren Grimes) would spend over # 3.5 m with Aggregate IQ.

A huge range of voluntary organisations, campaign groups and charities — from the umbrella organisation, the National Council of Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) to the TUC, the Royal British Legion to the RSPB, Oxfam to Unlock Democracy — have joined 38 Degrees in stark warnings about the damage that part II of the government bill would inflict on open debate.

Stella has been working for Labour alongside local activists and community campaign groups for many years as an active member of our Walthamstow constituency, whether as a branch secretary, GC delegate, LGC delegate or a campaign organiser.

Gonzales breaks down the various campaign groups that are making pricey ad reservations in some media markets and not others, which can provide insight about the seats the parties really see as most flippable.

Deprivation and inequality in the UK rose for a third successive year in 2007 - 08, according to data from the Department for Work and Pensions that prompted strong criticism from campaign groups for the government's backsliding on its anti-poverty goals.

The move was welcomed by campaign groups including Shelter, but others warned that agents and landlords could pass on the expenses in the form of higher rents — an argument advanced, notably, by the housing minister Gavin Barwell in September.

Now they're taking place all the time, with campaign groups, embassies, employers and lawyers.

Almost 100 MPs have so far signed an early day motion backing calls by the Mental Health Alliance, a grouping of 78 different charities and campaign groups, to reform the bill and ensure patients are properly protected.

The report concludes that personal carbon trading is not the best option for reducing carbon emissions - something environmental campaign groups have been saying for years.

The fight against the Bedroom Tax stepped up yesterday, when campaign groups from across the UK linked up to co-ordinate national action.

Open Britain continues to campaign in collaboration with other major pro-European campaign groups such as Britain for Europe and European Movement UK.

He's done 14 events for Senate campaign groups, including the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and the Senate Majority PAC, the super PAC that has already spent $ 36 million on the 2014 campaign.

Following George Osborne's Mansion House speech, and announcement of new bank lending programmes, several think - tanks and campaign groups have reacted to the news.

The report contains complaints from current and former detainees, collected from hundreds received by the two campaign groups during that period.

The Electoral Commission has removed 11 groups that were part of the Grassroots Out movement from its official register of campaign groups.

More than one in five bananas imported into the UK are grown in Colombia and campaign groups say they are sold too cheaply

62 % agree that «David Cameron should worry more about traditional Conservative supporters like churchgoers and less about winning support amongst non-traditional supporters like gay rights campaign groups».

Campaign groups like the Coalition For Marriage are placing intense pressure on backbenchers, having notched up over 600,000 signatures for their petition against same - sex marriage.

It is claimed five undercover officers engaged in infiltrating environmental campaign groups between the mid 1980s and 2010 had relationships with the women lasting from seven months to nine years.

The argument for fixed quotas of women in Parliament has re-emerged and been seized upon by the media and campaign groups claiming that there is serious lack of female representation in the party hierarchy.

Campaign groups and lawyers have lambasted the UK for opting out of the European Union returns directive, which sets a detention limit for irregular migrants of 18 months.

The demo was a success as it bought together a host of unions, campaign groups and militants to unite around the key issues of housing, jobs, education and health with a key slogan that «Cameron must go!».

«Over the past few months I've spoken to a lot of LGB and T people and campaign groups, and it quickly became clear that there is a real desire to address the differences between civil marriage and civil partnerships,» equalities minister Lynne Featherstone said.

It is also possible for campaign groups to trigger a local referendum with a signed petition.

Meanwhile, the pro-gay marriage campaign groups are claiming that a late surge in voter registration will boost the Yes cause.

[57] Three major cinema chains stopped showing adverts by referendum campaign groups after receiving negative feedback from their customers.

But in a response to a recent freedom of Information request from campaign groups NELMA and HASL, Islington council said:

«I am grateful to the campaign groups for bringing this case to my attention yesterday.

The Institution has also signed a joint letter to Government Ministers alongside several other professional bodies and campaign groups, urging changes to the NPPF.

It was a clear message being sent from the Tory party to gay people, and in doing so it actually galvanised many of the campaign groups which drove the issue into mainstream acceptability in the years to come.

The Millennium Dome is the first venue to come under scrutiny, and local campaign groups, the police, religious groups and members of the Greater London Assembly will have a chance to have their say.

«But the involvement of campaign groups and other organisations, whether through lobbying government or public campaigning, must be done in a transparent and open way.»

Their campaign groups have managed to get through to the Labour leadership, having long had the sympathy of the Labour left that now dominates it.

Campaign groups are concerned about a proposal for Nestlé water towers at EXPO 2015.

Similarly, there are other groups raising concerns about Nestlé trade union busting activities, impact on water supplies and spying on campaign groups.

The families, campaign groups, and other individuals have, over the years, been consistent in their arguments that the inquest was deeply flawed in a number of significant ways, and that the verdicts should be quashed and new inquests held.

The decision to quash the findings of the initial inquests amounts, in essence, to a full and complete vindication of many of the arguments that the families and campaign groups have been making since 1991.

This verdict brings to a conclusion the longest jury hearing in British legal history, and also vindicates the years - long struggle of the families of the victims and associated campaign groups, who comprehensively and consistently rejected the findings of the first inquest held in 1989.

Food producers, retail chains and campaign groups such as the Natural Resources Defense Council have also vowed to reduce food loss in the ReFED initiative.

Public debates over farmgate milk prices will take place across Britain over the next couple of weeks, as producers and campaign groups look to maintain pressure on retailers and processors.

Campaign groups such as Banana Link were concerned that all Fairtrade products might be moved to Fairly Traded.

One of the outcomes that grabbed the most headlines was the resolution to give high conservation value to secondary, degraded forest, a move that has been welcomed by many environmentalists and campaign groups, including Greenpeace.

Fuller proposals are expected to be unveiled on Tuesday after months of consultations with campaign groups, family lawyers and sex experts.

All four arrests sparked criticism from all around the world with Christian campaign groups branding the accusations levelled against the men as «spurious» and therefore demanded that they all be released.

The changes to housing benefit were introduced last year in England, Scotland and Wales but were met with fierce criticism from many campaign groups and faith leaders.

To gain an insight into the end point aimed at by homosexual campaign groups it is useful to consider and the terms «homophobia» and «heterosexist».