Sentences with phrase «electoral liability»

I'm saying that the absence of the payment — regardless of where the money came from — would have created an enormous electoral liability.

The Akyem royal alleged that «because they [government] see us [Akyems] as electoral liability, they sited the university in Somanya and not in Okyehene's kingdom».

Tony Blair and Peter Mandelson are major electoral liabilities who should be hidden away from the public, according to a new poll.

Falling poll numbers also mean Labour MPs are reflecting on their future electoral liability under Corbyn.

But GOP grandees now suspect that religion is an electoral liability, or at least will become one if the religious right isn't put on a short leash.

Labour did make a major progressive advance arguing for schools and hospitals first - tax cuts had become an electoral liability.

Katie Razzall investigates whether being posh is an electoral liability?

That makes for a sharp and unedifying contrast with the Conservative party, which seems to have no scruples about summarily deposing leaders once they become an electoral liability.

Peter Mandelson was similarly unpopular with voters, with 53 % saying he was an electoral liability as opposed to just seven per cent saying he was an asset.

Sixty - one per cent of all voters said the former Labour leader was an «electoral liability» with even 47 % of all Labour supporters agreeing.

Leanne Wood, Bethan Jenkins, Helen Mary Jones and Nerys Evans have opposed the deal, describing it as an electoral liability and pointing to the Conservatives» record in Wales during the 1980s.

A key argument of Jeremy Corbyn's critics is that he is an electoral liability — therefore they highlight anything suggesting that Labour are doing badly.

He then read out a list of anonymous quotes from Labour MPs which lambasted Mr Brown as an electoral liability.

Main Nine out of ten political insiders say Brown is an electoral liability»

The electoral liability of the left is increasingly becoming a bit of a myth in this century.

More and more politicians will be finding out that defending green levies on energy bills is more of an electoral liability than doubting dangerous climate change.