Sentences with phrase «during his leadership campaign last»

He made the pledge during his leadership campaign last year but changed his mind after asking the former director of Liberty to chair an inquiry into anti-Semitism within Labour, which reported back earlier this summer.

Aside from a commitment to oppose the expansion of selection in English schools, the Labour conference has been light on education policy, and although Corbyn has renewed a commitment to the idea of a national education service, there have been few details about the policy first mooted during his leadership campaign last year.

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Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

Below you'll find Google Trends charts for the 100 days before the campaign's last month for both the Conservative and Liberal leadership contests, along with explanations for some of the biggest spikes in search volume during that time.

During the UPC leadership campaign, and in his victory speech last weekend, Jason Kenney repeatedly described the NDP as â $ œthis deceptive, divisive, debt - quadrupling, tax - hiking, job - killing, acciden...

In fact, during the last leadership election for Jeremy Corbyn, and at many of his rallies in this campaign, I was repeatedly taken by how many teachers and nurses and fire - fighters and doctors I came across.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat who during the campaign pushed for down - ballot candidates in Senate races and helped fundraise, has been pushed over the last several weeks by liberal groups and mainline conference leaders to get involved in the disputed leadership.

They stuck by him during his nadir last summer, when his leadership of the party seemed doomed - indeed, the organisational, campaigning and social media nous of the pro-migrant radical left probably saved him, and certainly boosted his general election performance.

During the last leadership campaign, I had six votes: one from my membership, one from my unions and four from socialist societies of which I am a member.

Not only did the two team up in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, with Cuomo praising Mangano for his leadership during the storm, but the governor also said nothing when the county executive ran a TV ad during last year's campaign that seemed to indicate he had Cuomo's endorsement for his re-election bid.

The Smirking Gun, as I secretly call Balls, had spent much of last summer trying to pick off Miliband during the Labour leadership campaign.

Mr Corbyn floated the idea of scrapping the House of Lords in August while campaigning during last year's Labour leadership contest against Owen Smith.

Patel was promoted last year to employment minister with the right to sit in cabinet after impressing the Tory leadership with her media performances during the election campaign.

Last year, during the Labour leadership campaign, Ed Balls questioned one of the principles at the heart of the EU and its single market, the free movement of labour.

During the last Liberal leadership campaign, delegates looked at front - runner Michael Ignatieff and thought «who is this guy, he spends 25 years swanning around Oxford and Harvard and comes back, expecting to be Prime Minister?»