Sentences with phrase «face biggest election»

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On the heels of a failed snap election in an effort to build a bigger majority and a personal mandate, Theresa May, the British Prime Minister, now faces the though job of trying to forge a coalition deal to stay in power.

«We believe that the Conservatives at the next election need to be seen to be taking on the big, difficult issues facing society and not be distracted by the Ukip agenda of Europe and immigration.»

The leaders of the three biggest political parties will face each other live in three TV debates leading up to the general election.

He was accused of trying to keep Corbyn off the ballot when the Labour leader faced a challenge in 2016 and some also held him responsible for Labour failing to make even bigger gains at last year's general election.

On the penultimate day of the election campaign, Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of the Liberal Democrats Nick Clegg told voters, «you face the biggest political decision of your life».

But the embattled Alabama Senate candidate, who is facing allegations that he sexually assaulted, harassed or made sexual advances toward teenagers, still appears to have the support of a big chunk of his base ahead of the special election being held on Dec. 12: Alabama's white evangelical Protestants.

Four months to an election and the biggest opposition party, the New Patriotic Party (NPP), have resorted to throwing mud at everybody, whose work and effort is putting smiles on the faces of Ghanaians.

Despite their clever repackaging and repositioning, the Greens face a disappointing election night — and their biggest problem isn't going away.

David Cameron faces his biggest by - election defeat yet at the hands of Ukip defector Douglas Carswell in Clacton.

«But I think that there's a deeper lesson, which is that if any of us think that we lost the election because of personalities, we are profoundly wrong — there are big issues for us to face up to, about the fact that people lost a sense of who we were and what we believed.»

«Given the big challenges faced by our country and our Party over the coming months, and the possibility of an imminent general election, I do not have the confidence that you can bring the Party together, lead us to a General Election and be an effective Oppelection, I do not have the confidence that you can bring the Party together, lead us to a General Election and be an effective OppElection and be an effective Opposition.

First elected in 1964, Conyers is facing perhaps his biggest electoral challenge yet, since he learned Friday that he may not have enough signatures on his nominating petitions to qualify for the Aug. 5 ballot for the Michigan primary election.

«Given the big challenges faced by our country and our party over the coming months, and the possibility of an imminent general election, I do not have the confidence that you can bring the Party together, lead us to a General Election and an effective Oppelection, I do not have the confidence that you can bring the Party together, lead us to a General Election and an effective OppElection and an effective Opposition.

Some big political figures are facing a hard decision following Theresa May's decision to hold a snap general election in June.

There's a big problem facing the Tory party in the run up to the Euro Elections, and that problem's name is....

Asking whether Mr Miliband would now say what he supports, foreign secretary William Hague said: «Or will he follow the unions who fixed the election for him, and Ed Balls and Gordon Brown who tutored him, in running away from the biggest problem facing the country and abandoning the centre ground of British politics?»

Back to the bigger picture now though, and the Guardian's political team reports that Ed Miliband has been put on notice that Labour faces a major battle if it is to secure an overall parliamentary majority next year after the local election showed that the party is struggling to achieve the sort of breakthrough that would signal a Westminster victory.

The Prime Minister is facing her biggest electoral test since last year's disastrous general election in the English council and mayoral polls.

There was a smile on Theresa May's face after Labour failed to make big gains in local elections across England.

Facing bipartisan hostility over high drug prices in an election year, the pharma industry's biggest trade group boosted revenue by nearly a fourth last year and spread the millions collected among hundreds of lobbyists, politicians and patient groups, new filings show.

While the No Child Left Behind Act has faced a lot of criticism from Democratic candidates for federal office this election season, a Republican running in the hotly contested U.S. Senate race in Colorado isn't exactly a big fan of the law either.

There may be no general election this year, but Whiteman insists he still wants his members in campaign mode as they prepare to debate and set policy on the biggest issues facing schools across the country.

She's ready to face the same big - money opposition in the city election.

The US election also featured highly in compliance professionals» responses, with a quarter (27 %) seeing it as one of the biggest threats facing their business in the year ahead, and a far greater number are concerned about the implications a Trump victory might have on the profession.