Sentences with phrase «former social democrat»

A Tory from the «soggy left» who was a former Social Democrat.

His biggest asset is the former Social Democrat party network which pervades the policy unit and its lobbyist links.

Not exact matches

Embattled former European Parliament President Martin Schulz has resigned as the head of Germany's Social Democrats.

She is not short on prescriptions, either, and would like to see the government make a «big, bold offer» by asking Liberal Democrat MP Norman Lamb, a former health minister, to chair a commission on funding the NHS and social care.

For months, centreright Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek's ODS party has trailed former Prime Minister Jir Paroubek's Social Democrats.

Former Chair of the Social Liberal Forum Richard Grayson writes: Check out an e-pamphlet I have written called The Liberal Democrat Journey to a Lib - Con Coalition — and Where Next?

After the defeat in the 2005 election, in which the Social Democrats lost five seats and failed to regain the majority it had lost in the 2001 election, former Minister of Finance and party leader Mogens Lykketoft resigned his post, taking responsibility for the poor election results.

The mailer links the Tea Party to 2008 VP candidate / former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, and says it holds «ultra-conservative views like banning abortion, privatizing Social Security, and abolishing the Department of education,» adding: «If Joe Golombek wants to be a Tea Party candidate so badly, he's not a Democrat we can trust.»

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In a highly unusual move, the Tory former education secretary Nicky Morgan joins forces with her previous Labour shadow Lucy Powell and the Liberal Democrat former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg to condemn the plans as damaging to social mobility, ideologically driven and divisive.

But then, thrown into the lively mix, I can reveal, is the plan by a former founder member of the old breakaway Social Democratic Party, Professor Stephen Haseler, to stand an anti coalition Liberal Democrat candidate.

When the former diplomat and Special Boat Service captain took over the helm of the newly - merged Social and Liberal Democrats in July 1988, the party had sunk to 5 per cent in the polls, and shortly after came fourth behind the Greens in European elections.

Warner, who is also a former adviser to Jack Straw, said that he had no plans to join another party and that he would remain a left of centre «social democrat».

DiNapoli, a Democrat, has used the pension fund to throw some political weight around when it comes to social causes — think of the Chevron lawsuit, which is being challenged by former ethics watchdog David Grandeau, and the plan to divest from firearm manufacturers.

Former minister David Laws has issued a savage attack on Tim Farron, saying the Liberal Democrat leader was right to resign as he holds «outdated and offensive» views on social issues.

Schaffer said Democrats will interview Deborah Slinowsky, a former Sachem school board member from Holbrook who now works in the Suffolk County Department of Social Services, and Jenn Hann of Ronkonkoma, an aide to Legis.

Polly Toynbee reminded us yesterday of who were some of the social democrats in the great Labour break - away of the early 1980s: Andrew Lansley, for example, now a Tory dismantling the NHS, and opposed by his former colleague, Shirley Williams, now in the Lib Dems.

Then there is the left - liberal or social democrat party, which claims the allegiance of Hughes, former leaders Menzies Campbell and Charles Kennedy, rising star Tim Farron and probably poor Vince Cable.

He was an ally of former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno, and was the first Democrat to be given a committee (Social Services) to chair in a show of «bipartisanship» by Bruno back in 2007.

The Welsh Liberal Democrats have criticised the Tory UK Government for delaying a cap on care costs secured by former Lib Dem Care Minister Norman Lamb, following an announcement by the Welsh Government that no decision can be made about reform of arrangements for paying for social care and support in Wales.

Eileen Baxendale (Liberal Democrat) Former social worker.

Across social - media sites and in the mainstream press, numerous commentators noted that Giffords, an Arizona Democrat, had appeared on a list of legislators, each marked with crosshairs on a map, that former Alaska governor Sarah Palin's political action committee released in 2010.

Still, political rivals made hay on social media of the fact that a number of signatories are backers of the left - leaning New Democrats (NDP), including politicians like former Ontario provincial NDP leader Stephen Lewis, artists like film - maker Sarah Polley, and trade union members like Canadian Union of Public Employees president Paul Moist.

The current Democrat Party is little more than a shadow of it's former self as the last two Democrat Presidents have done their best to promote the destruction of progressive social ideals and legislation while promoting devastating international trade agreements that put the U.S. and it's citizens at the mercy of foreign business and banking interests.

«It's tricky and it's going to be hard, but there are ways it can be dealt with,» says Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, a former tech executive who has led investigations into Russian interference on social media over the last year as the top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee.