Sentences with phrase «different party label»
In 1972 the sitting Labour MP Dick Taverne resigned from the Labour party and from Parliament to re-contest his seat as an Independent Democratic Labour candidate - the last instance of an MP resigning to contest their seat under a different party label and winning until Douglas Carswell repeated the feat in 2014.
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The two party system sells the same snake - oil with different labeling and flavors.
«But it is crucial in cases of this kind for tribunals not to be distracted by the fact that the parties may have been following an internal procedure with more elaborate requirements and different terminology from those required by the statute: it is necessary to look beneath the parties» own labels and focus on whether the substantive requirements of the statute, which are in simple and non-technical terms, were or were not in fact met.