Sentences with phrase «election performance lidington»

The Sunday Telegraph leads this morning with an exclusive preview of Lord Ashcroft's review of Tory election performance.

In a speech inside Conservative HQ, David Cameron has praised aides and supporters for their role in the party's election performance.

Stephen's a right «payne» a lot of the time but he has certainly earned his keep there from election performance.

Despite fears that Labour could be on course for its worst general election performance since 1935, Gwynne insisted the party was not simply fighting a defensive campaign, but was determined to gain seats.

The former First Minister Rhodri Morgan also warned the Labour Party in Wales must learn lessons from the party's poor election performance in Scotland.

Corbyn's position as party leader has been bolstered by Labour's election performance and rise in the polls, meaning there is no suggestion there will be another leadership contest for some time unless he decides to stand aside.

The Tory leader utterly ignored her party's disastrous election performance as she confirmed a deal with Northern Ireland's right - wing DUP in an extraordinary statement on the steps of Downing Street.

The Fabians» report said that examining Labour's general election performance over the past 40 years showed that its share of the vote was eight percentage points lower than its poll rating in the second year of the preceding parliament.

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The parties are on the following shares of the vote (with 2005 general election performance in brackets):

It is not, as some of Corbyn's detractors have claimed, the worst local election performance for decades (Ed Miliband's Labour did a little worse in 2011 and William Hague did significantly worse for the Tories in 1998) but it is the sort of local election performance heralding failure at the next general election.

In summary, the local election performance from Labour this year is not the unprecedented disaster Corbyn's opponents have claimed — others have done worse — but neither is it in any way positive news.

Lord Ashcroft, who in his review of the Conservatives» election performance said it had been a mistake for Mr Cameron to agree to televised debates in which Mr Clegg took part and criticised the Tories for failing to get their «message» across properly, uses an article in The Sunday Telegraph today to address the Lib Dems» «predicament».

Meanwhile, Tory MPs sat grim - faced following their own leader's disastrous election performance.

This week's skirmishes come a week after Lammy sounded off about Labour's general election performance in the capital.

If Clegg manages to significantly outperform the worst predictions for the party's general election performance, he may in the process be able to redeem his own performance in government and his project of pulling the party centrewards.

In the light of this vast difference between euro - election and general election performance, we have not yet been persuaded that we would produce more accurate data were we to move UKIP to the main party list when asking our daily voting question.

But one senior Conservative MP gave me a taste of the anger at Cameron» election performance in which he won 36 % of the vote — around four points more than the 32.3 % won by Michael Howard in 2005.

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.

Eeyores reckon that the party's 2010 election performance was a disaster, given the promise held out by its poll surge following the first televised leaders» debate, and they argue that Nick Clegg's credibility since backing the coalition's line on tuition fees has been very costly.

The UKIP leader braved a return to the county that was the scene of his serious plane crash two years ago to join in his party's best - ever by - election performance.

Survation's figures are not quite so dire for Labour, but, at 18 %, is three points lower on where the party stood in September 2015 and six points down on its 2015 UK general election performance.

We won 100 fewer seats than them: our worst election performance in almost three decades.

Many questioned whether the Liberal Democrats would survive after their catastrophic general election performance in 2015.

Whisper it, but some in Labour's ranks observed their party's local election performance and were a little underwhelmed.

Moreover, in terms of nationwide share of the vote, it was one of the worst local election performances since the party's formation.

He said Labour's standing in the public was improving — despite disappointing results in recent parliamentary contests in Richmond Park and Sleaford & North Hykeham — as he pointed to strong council by - election performances.

Clegg's satisfaction ratings fell 16 points over the same period to -37, as voters responded to his European elections performance.

The Liberal Democrats continued a humiliating string of by - election performances.

Labour's European election performances under New Labour were even worse.

Not exact matches

This year's poor performance - only six House seats gained, two Senate seats added, and the White House lost - caused a revolt among House Democrats after the election.

European stocks have recovered some summer losses but past performance suggests the German election could threaten some of the momentum.

CNBC's Dominic Chu reports on the performance in golf stocks following Election Day.

Still, the poor performance could have cost him the election.

Looking ahead to Malaysia's general election — due before 2018 — parliament member Wong expects an improved performance from opposition parties if the 1MDB scandal goes unresolved.

That year hedge fund performance suffered as managers were surprised by events like a plunge in oil prices, Brexit and the U.S. election.

Also, if a majority of the Board is comprised of persons other than (i) persons for whose election proxies were solicited by the Board; or (ii) persons who were appointed by the Board to fill vacancies caused by death or resignation or to fill newly - created directorships («Board Change»), unless the Committee or Board determines otherwise prior to such Board Change, then participants immediately prior to the Board Change who cease to be employees or non-employee directors within six months after such Board Change for any reason other than death or permanent disability generally have their (i) options and stock appreciation rights become immediately exercisable and to the extent not canceled or cashed out, generally have at least six months to exercise such awards; (ii) restrictions with respect to restricted stock and RSRs lapse and generally shares are delivered; and (iii) performance shares and performance units pay out pro rata based on performance through the end of the last calendar quarter before the time the participant ceased to be an employee.

My pay, my job prospects, the performance of my portfolio, the performance of my insurancer's portfolio, the next election — knowing that growth might slow gives me information about all this stuff, without having to know that there will be a recession.

In addition, as part of our governance review and succession planning, the Board (led by the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee) evaluates our leadership structure to ensure that it remains the optimal structure for Tesla, reviews the composition, size and performance of the Board and its committees, evaluates individual Board members, and identifies and evaluates candidates for election or re-election to the Board.

-- In his first election campaign as leader of Progressive Conservatives in 2011, Tim Hudak failed to connect with Ontario voters — critics panned his performance as wooden and artificial.

As shown in the chart below, U.S. small caps enjoyed a performance boost after the November election on hopes of a corporate tax cut and pro-growth policies.

If elections play out as polls suggest, and if the United Kingdom and the EU can begin constructive Brexit negotiations, we believe pent up corporate demand and relief among investors could lead to strong economic and financial market performances across Europe.

This makes it difficult to predict how much election year uncertainty will influence market performance.

Those expectations are based on analysis of historical precedence, including the average market gains in the third year of the presidential election cycle, strong momentum, earnings growth, seasonal trends, accelerating economic growth, and the normal market performance around the first Fed rate hike.

In the paper, Corporate campaign contributions and abnormal stock returns after presidential elections, forthcoming in Public Choice, we explore the stock market performance of top corporate contributors after the elections that brought Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, respectively, to power.

Subsequent to the election, U.S. stock markets turned in a solid fourth quarter performance on hopes for a growth revival.

It's not for nothing that the two best received remarks of the general election season have been Bill Clinton's Democratic convention speech and Romney debate performance.

So some CNN reporter finds some crazed, frothing at the mouth ex-mormon who claims that this was done the DAY AFTER ROMNEY GIVES A STELLAR DEBATE PERFORMANCE AT PROBABLY THE MOST CRITICAL TIME OF HIS ELECTION CAMPAIGN???

Seventy percent of Jakarta's citizens approved of his performance, even as he lost the recent election.

The sense of the prophetic ethic and morality is always something like this: «You shall refrain from this practice, or you shall do thus - and - so, because I am Yahweh who brought you up out of Egypt [election] and you are a people voluntarily committed in return to the performance of my just and righteous will [covenant].»