Sentences with phrase «coalition as a victory»

Instead of dismissing the coalition as a victory for the right, Labour ought to be challenging its claim to be progressive.

Not exact matches

General election 1945Clement Atlee's landslide victory in July 1945 came as a complete surprise to the Conservatives who were hoping to capitalise on Winston Churchill's hugely successful period as Britain's wartime coalition prime minister.

I look at the particular challenges for Labour in reconnecting to disillusioned liberal - left voters as part of the task of rebuilding the broad electoral coalition which won it three election victories.

A non-governmental organisation, the Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders, has described the victory of Ayodele Fayose at the June 21 Ekiti State governorship election as mysterious.

Cameron had a few choices: Block it and risk the coalition fall apart on a relatively minor issue, Grudgingly let her have her way and be seen as not in control or get behind it 100 % and claim it as a Tory rather than LibDem victory.

Victory for the Yes camp therefore clearly requires a majority of Labour voters to support it as part of something like the «Rainbow Coalition'that was briefly floated at the end of the last general election.

Gallo, speaking the afternoon after his triumph, attributed the crushing victory to a strategy based on coalition - building with an emphasis on bringing people into the campaign who had felt shut out by politics - as - usual in Kingston.

He said Nigerians would recall that in the heat of 2015 elections, many citizens, who claimed to have become tired of the PDP and its government, opted for a coalition of strange bedfellows who he said had little or no experience in governance as a vehicle for electoral victory.

Even the probability of such a coalition will end the chances of a Labour victory and could spell the end of the party as it is.

As the polls were counted late into the night, the National Electoral Council finally announced that Maduro had won a narrow victory over Capriles, 50.6 % to 49.1 %, a result which the opposition coalition, the Mesa de la Unidad Democrática (MUD), steadfastly refused to accept, citing widespread irregularities while demanding a full recount of the vote.

In another legislative victory for magnet schools, MSA worked with the National Coalition on School Diversity to also ensure that an outdated anti-busing provision from the 1970s did not prevent current MSAP grantees from using their funding for school transportation as authorized under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).

There were some victories, we laid the groundwork for further work, and our reform coalition is well armed to continue with our agenda, but as much as I would like to put a positive spin on the overall outcome for our priorities, it is difficult to find a basis for a grade higher than a D.

This victory was the result of years of hard work by a broad coalition of community groups, environmental organizations and other stakeholders who saw the growing renewable energy economy as a chance not just to clean the air, but to catalyze economic opportunity in frontline communities.

• Won a key 2007 victory on greenhouse gas vehicle emissions when the nation's highest court sided with our coalition and struck down the Environmental Protection Agency's refusal to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant under the Clean Air Act.