Sentences with phrase «eve of the general election»

«The timing for the proposed changes, 2014, the eve of a General Election is interesting.

Next month's event looks uncomfortably like a partisan attempt to hijack one of the great glories of our common history for party political purposes on the eve of a general election.

But Miliband faced murmurings of discontent at all levels of the party, up to the shadow cabinet, amid signs that Labour is struggling to look like an opposition party on the eve of a general election victory.

«Gordon Brown drafted a speech on the eve of the general election campaign setting out plans to stand down within a year of the poll, but was persuaded by senior ministers not to go ahead.

He wrote, «INEC, based on the provisions of the Electoral Act, gives Nigerians the opportunity to interrogate the voter register before it is finalised and on the eve of General Elections.

The Israelis reportedly left the country on the eve of the general elections, following signs that Buhari might win the poll.

But in a sign that Lib Dem MPs are reluctant to step into government posts on the eve of the general election, Clegg has asked deputy leader of the Commons Tom Brake to double up to fill the other vacancy in the whips» office.

On the eve of the general election The Daily Telegraph thundered that «a new EU directive which came into force in January» forces organic farmers to treat sick livestock with homeopathy.

Ms Keates added: «On the eve of a general election, ministers have claimed to empathise with teachers but have published a report that is woefully inadequate given the scale of the teacher workload crisis.

It did not slip into the Act during a late night parliamentary sitting or, like the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 which created the now to be abolished Serious Organsed Crime Agency, get nodded through in a parliamentary rush on the eve of a general election.