Sentences with phrase «during the general election last»

Reports are that turnout in Kettering, Northamptonshire is around 76 %, compared to 67 % during the general election last year.

Not exact matches

Late last year, Facebook General Counsel Colin Stretch joined lawyers from Twitter and Google to testify on the role the platform may have played in spreading viral disinformation during the 2016 election.

During the last general election, Kenny Imafidon produced the awardwinning «Kenny Report» blogs, which were designed to raise awareness and articulate the challenges faced by young people and disadvantaged communities.

George Pataki, telling me during last night's «Insiders» segment on CapTon that Rick Lazio should do the right thing — for himself and the GOP — and decline to remain in the general election on the Conservative Party line.

A YouGov poll for The Times on the weekend put the Leave campaign nine points in front (although research was carried out on line and such a methodology proved to be problematic during last year's general election).

Boris was a great Mayor but during last year's general election there was no obvious plan to try and hold or win target seats in the Capital.

The move will no doubt spark glee among sketchwriters who dubbed her «The Maybot» during last year's general election for her cold and clunky campaign events.

Mr Bercow's vulnerability against a Tory plot to remove him can be traced back to a controversial interview he gave to my Sky News colleague Lewis Goodall during last year's general election campaign.

May's awkward manner and reluctance to engage with real people were seen as major handicaps during last year's general election campaign.

His former immigration spokesman Phil Woolas's shameless tactics in Oldham East and Saddleworth during the last general election campaign, and subsequent ejection from Parliament, have offered a well - timed opportunity for Labour to give the coalition and, in particular, Nick Clegg, a thrashing in the by - election on 13 January - the first significant electoral test of the coalition's popularity.

The general counsels for Facebook, Twitter, and Google certainly gave strange replies when asked by Rep. Jackie Speier last November whether they had investigated «who was mimicking who» when it came to online messages promoted by both the Trump campaign and Russia during the election.

Umahi, who received some stakeholders of Abakaliki Local Government Area in his office in Abakaliki on Wednesday, said he was happy that those of them that worked for the Labour Party during the last general elections had decided to return to the PDP.

One of Angola's main opposition parties plans to contest the results of last week's general election, alleging unfair conduct during the vote that kept the ruling party of former president Jose Eduardo Dos Santos in power.

Considering the role these so called intellectuals played during the last general election and the very shameful role they have continued to play even in the face of full blown tyranny and state sponsored harassment of political opponents coupled with the unprecedented abysmal performance we are witnessing under a President they sold to Ghanaians, I'm reasonably convinced that they are a major part of our problem in this noble country.

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.

Stringer's auditors identified problems at 141 of the 156 polling sites they examined during last year's general election and federal and local primaries.

The general counsels for Facebook, Twitter, and Google certainly gave strange replies when asked by California Rep. Jackie Speier last November whether they had investigated «who was mimicking who» when it came to online messages promoted by both the Trump campaign and Russia during the election.

First of all, Cameron is likely to want to seize the agenda at some point with a last major reshuffle before the general election (and indeed some junior ministers may get moved during the summer).

Attorney General Jeff Sessions spoke twice with Russia's ambassador to the U.S. last year — encounters he did not disclose during his confirmation hearings — fueling calls for him to either resign or recuse himself from a Justice Department investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

One of the reasons why Nigerians voted for the candidate of the All Progressive Congress, General Mohammadu Buhari (rtd) during the last general election was his promise to fight corruption and end impunity in the cGeneral Mohammadu Buhari (rtd) during the last general election was his promise to fight corruption and end impunity in the cgeneral election was his promise to fight corruption and end impunity in the country.

Nevertheless, to put the issue beyond doubt, and in line with our practice at the last general election, we had already started a «close» period, during which no new self - signups or member referrals to YouGov will be invited to take part in political polls.

He said, «Why will anybody think that the people of Osun who stood firm even in the face of provocation during the last general election under the supervision of the PDP led government then, would now waver from such determination?.

During the last mayoral race of 2013, when Brown had primary and general election challengers, $ 1.76 million was spent.

The Governors almost always act on the recommendation of the Governor - General, with the last independent Senate election writ being issued by the Governor of Queensland during the Gair Affair in 1974.

And Tory MP Mike Freer, who claimed he was outed to religious voters by Labour canvassers during last year's general election, said: «It is not surprising that the commitment to equality is sometimes more show than substance in elements of the Labour Party.

The energy that was built up during and after the General Election campaign last year seems to have dissipated.

Vanguard however gathered that the attitude of many of the officers and soldiers being referred to, particularly those serving in the Southern part of the country, is not unconnected with recent investigations into the conduct of security personnel during the last general elections in the country whereby personnel who were performing their duties in accordance with the «laws of the land» are the victims of petitions and investigation, after allegedly «taking sides».

But since the return of peace to Bornu state, a lot of Nigerian citizens who are in the Internally Displaced Camps (IDPs) before and during the last general elections have returned to their towns and villages.

Boris Johnson could «get away» with standing for a Parliamentary seat in the capital at the 2015 general election during his last year as London mayor, said a former Conservative MP.

Stephen Metcalfe won the new South Basildon and East Thurrock seat at the general election and made his maiden speech last Thursday during the committee stage of the Academies Bill:

So as we remember the horrible events of last 20 years, let us also reflect on another kind of impunity that we all witnessed during the last general election across our state.

Democrats last month filed ballot petitions to get the referendum before voters during the November general election.

We will also relaunch ConHome's Yellow to Blue fundraising campaign that during the last General Election raised over # 12,000 for Tory candidates fighting Liberal Democrats.

Drawing on data from Labour's time in opposition during these periods it is possible to see how well it has polled since the general election last May.

During the last election cycle, the firm was the largest donor to Cuomo ($ 1 million), Attorney General Eric Schneiderman ($ 240,000) and Comptroller Tom DiNapoli ($ 180,000).

Meanwhile, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has urged its members involved in sharing the slush funds from the Office of the former National Security Adviser to return what they collected, stressing that it did not ask any of its members to collect money on its behalf during the last general elections.

He later wrote a book, The Battle For Power, about the strained relationship between the Liberals and the Social Democratic Party (SDP) during that campaign, the last general election fought as the SDP — Liberal Alliance.

It will be recalled that based on petitions and allegations of unprofessional and partisan conducts of some officers and soldiers of the Nigerian Army during the 2015 General elections, Ekiti and Osun States Gubernatorial elections last year, the Nigerian Army set up a high powered Board of Inquiry.

In the last 2 years, the MCFA has gone through an intensive, exciting, and promising series of developments with the establishment of national groups in virtually all member countries of the EU and the election of an administrative board during the first Annual General Assembly in November 1998.

Rayner also praised parents and unions involved in the campaign against real - terms school funding cuts, which brought the issue to the fore during last year's general election.

The United Democratic Party is so confident of its record of service during these last 10 years is so absolutely certain that it will continue in the time that's left until its General elections to consolidate and expand on that record of service.

Late last year, Facebook General Counsel Colin Stretch joined lawyers from Twitter and Google to testify on the role the platform may have played in spreading viral disinformation during the 2016 election.