Sentences with phrase «debates during the election campaign»

A clever political strike, trying to turn to the Coalition's advantage the Tories» embarrassment at having been forced to protect these benefits for pensioners because of David Cameron's cowardice during the televised debates during the election campaign in April.

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Trump's election campaign had offered to pay to have an emoji, or small picture, that would show up on tweets during the second presidential debate anytime Twitter users tweeted the phrase «#Crooked Hillary,» Republican Trump's nickname for his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton.

Schaffner says that before Obama's election, political scientists believed that «when candidates used language during a campaign, or during a debate, that was explicitly racist, voters would indicate that they liked that candidate less and were less likely to vote for them.

Regardless of the details, Cameron's comments effectively guarantee that there will be TV debates during the general election campaign.

[14] After the televised debates between the three leaders — the first of their type during an election campaign in the United Kingdom — their poll ratings had risen to the point where many considered the possibility of a Liberal Democrat role in Government.

The prime minister said he believed there should be «a wide ranging series of television and radio debates with party leaders» during the next general election campaign.

UKIP leader Nigel Farage says that they TV election debates should take place during the election campaign, after Easter.

With education policy set to play an important part in the May general election campaign, debates around the future direction of the school system will take place against the backdrop of fast - paced reforms made during the coalition's time in office.

Labour is seeking to exploit the government's weakness and press home the anti-austerity arguments made during the general election campaign by holding a series of debates on key social policy issues.

Mr Blair never took part in televised debates with other party leaders during election campaigns.

During the election campaign Ms Rudd stood up on behalf of the PM against the Labour leader in a live TV debate despite the fact her father had died two days before.

They dropped plans to give the new test, and during an election campaign in which the standards were hotly debated, they repealed Common Core.

During the general election, Labour campaigned for scrapping tuition fees - and in the wake of the election there was renewed debate about whether tuition fees and interest charges were unacceptably high.

That scheme bit the dust in 2014 after becoming a hotly debated issue during the rancorous 2013 election campaign, but carbon policy has not had the same high profile during the current campaign.

A few months after the end of an election campaign in which the phrase «climate change» wasn't mentioned once during three televised debates between the two presidential contenders, the editors of a magazine ensconced in an ivory tower think fighting climate change «must take top priority.»

For all the intense debate over the number of police officers, virtually no mention of fraud was made by any politician during the election campaign and its aftermath — despite ONS figures showing that 4.5 % of all adults were a victim of bank or credit card fraud, by far the most common crime affecting adults in Britain.

As Ouseley J noted, it was not disputed that the aim of «avoiding undue dominance of the political debate by wealthier groups... justifies a ban on broadcast media advertising during election campaigns».