Sentences with phrase «election by doing the right thing»

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The husband of ex MP the late Candy Atherton has called on disgraced Tory council candidate Richard Cunningham to do the right thing and step down from the by - election caused by Candy's death.

Gloria De Piero MP, Labour's shadow minister for women and equalities, responding to the lifting of Lord Rennard's suspension, said: «Nick Clegg has sent a clear message to women voters — he is more interested in trying to salvage the Lib Dems» fading election hopes than do the right thing by the women who made these serious complaints.

In interview today, Mr Farage said he believed the Tories had «tried too hard» in their election campaign, and said he believed Mr Reckless had done the right thing by letting his constituents decide whether to keep him in his seat after defecting.

As much as it was the smart and right thing to do, it had not been done before in the context of a presidential election, and trying something new when you are trying to put a President back in the White House, is, by definition, risky.

But Jonathan Simons, head of education at think tank Policy Exchange, told Schools Week: «It's the right thing to do, under the circumstances — the delay caused by various elections and the referendum and subsequent political changes meant that the timing would have been unreasonably tight.

Metes and Bounds: By Marty Douglas — In the spirit that there's no such thing as a horse so dead that it doesn't have one more flog in it: I recently received a letter from a reader of my August column, in which I frankly discussed my attitude toward the non-voter — those of us with the right to vote in a Canadian election, who, for a variety of reasons ranging from feeble to fervent, choose not to vote.