Sentences with phrase «election defeat showed»

Warning that Labour's general election defeat showed it could no longer afford to oppose all such austerity measures, Ms Harman also announced MPs would not oppose the Welfare Reform and Work Bill.

Yet its crushing 2011 election defeat showed that Labour is in clear need of a renaissance in Scotland.

Not exact matches

Since the beginning of this election campaign, polls have shown the Wildrose Party in a position to make significant gains across Calgary and Southern Alberta, putting many Tory incumbents and rookie candidates at risk of defeat.

in which Wright badly mischaracterizes the response of the United States to the September 11th attacks, as well as the views of President Bush and then - Prime Minister Tony Blair, declared that the 2006 mid-term elections was an example of God «calling to account those who abuse powers,» showed a disturbing tendency toward moral equivalence between jihadists and those who are fighting to defeat them, and directed virtually all of his scorn against the United States and Great Britain rather than al Qaeda, the Taliban, and the regime of Saddam Hussein.

So, it's a safe bet Espada would either be 1) indicted, or 2) defeated in an election before his fellow Democrats expel him from their ranks, which means this whole thing is mostly just for show and an attempt for the party to try to distance itself from the scandal - scarred senator.

During the 2005 general election Simon Thomas wrote a blog which shows a near daily account of his campaign trail and his thoughts following his defeat.

A committee has in the light of our defeat been commissioned to establish the causes of our poor showing in last year's election.

President Trump on Sunday accused former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTrump Jr. met with Gulf adviser who offered help to win election: report Voters Dems need aren't impressed by anti-waterboarding showboating After year of investigation, Trump can rightly claim some vindication MORE of colluding with her party to defeat her primary opponent Sen. Bernie SandersBernard (Bernie) SandersSunday shows preview: Lawmakers weigh in after Texas school shooting Voters Dems need aren't impressed by anti-waterboarding showboating Primary win gives resurgent left a new shot of adrenaline MORE (I - Vt.).

But the defeat of Mandelson by Livingstone in last year's NEC election, support for Livingstone for London mayor and black members» use of OMOV to try to select black candidates for inner city parliamentary seats showed that the individual membership can not be totally controlled by the leadership.

Mr Blair's first YouTube broadcast was released as the latest opinion polls show Labour's popularity has slipped to levels not seen since 1983 and Michael Foot's election defeat.

Touching on the 2016 elections, the former Defence Minister said his analysis showed the party was going to lose the election, saying «I was a bit frightened about the parallels and similarities of 1999 and 2000 which eventually led to our electoral defeat at that time.

My suggestion that Corbyn stand down in favour of another candidate was driven by a desire to save his policies — which, as the polling shows, are very popular indeed — from being buried in the rubble of a terrible election defeat.

In a further headache for the ruling party, the poll also showed most Scots hoping for a Labour defeat at the Glasgow - East by - election.

«Across the country, Democrats and the liberal Left are looking to win Special Elections, hoping to show that the conservative movement can be defeated — and embarrass President Trump,» wrote Texas Sen. Ted Cruz in a fundraising email on behalf of Gianforte.

Queens Borough President Helen Marshall won the Democratic primary in her bid for a third term Tuesday, easily defeating challengers Marc Leavitt and Robert Schwartz in the three - way race for the nomination, unofficial election results show.

When quizzed by the host of the show, Kofi Adoma Nwanwani on whether the 2016 defeat of the NDC was caused by the leader of the party at the time, Mr. Mensah was quick to explain that «no leader can be absolved from defeat in general election.»

Even assuming he defeats Nixon for the nomination, it is a guessing game about which Andrew Cuomo would show up for the general election.

He argues that «the scale of the intellectual defeat in the 1992 election defeat for the left can not be overestimated» since it «led Labour to adopt an apparently uncritical account of globalisation» in part to show Labour understood the force of market economics.

YouGov's final London elections poll for the Evening Standard shows Boris Johnson defeating Ken Livingstone in the run - off vote for Mayor by 53 - 47 % - the same margin by which he won four years ago.

Final London elections poll shows Boris Johnson defeating Ken Livingstone in run - off vote for Mayor (Comments: 0)

Rafael Malek shares research from BritainThinks which shows that national level concerns, party «brand» and leadership all played their part in consigning Labour to a second consecutive election defeat.

Funded with $ 1 - a-day mandatory fees from approximately 2,500 police department members, the Long Island Law Enforcement Foundation regularly outspent candidates it targeted for defeat in recent elections, sometimes doubling or quadrupling what the candidates themselves raised, a Newsday analysis of campaign finance records shows.

President - Elect, Nana Akufo - Addo, has asked Ghanaians to express gratitude to President John Mahama for his show of maturity in defeat during the just ended general election, and the ensuing transition process.

With preliminary results showing the People's Partnership coalition likely to win a majority of 29 out of a possible 41 seats, Patrick Manning conceded defeat on election night.

Lamont gave her first post-election interview to The Politics Show Scotland on 18 December 2011, speaking of the «huge challenge» of rebuilding public trust in Scottish Labour after its election defeat of the previous May, and a general decline in support over the preceding decade.

Polls show that at the next election LR is heading for defeat — 400,000 people intend to vote for it but the 500,000 others will opt for the Democratic Conservative (DC) party.