Sentences with phrase «general election eve»

Its 2015 general election eve poll had Tories and Labour neck and neck on 34 % when the Conservatives won with a clear seven - point lead the next day.

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The Information Commissioner said the «unprecedented» email, sent by Telegraph editor Chris Evans on the eve of last year's general election, was a serious breach of regulations protecting consumers from unsolicited online marketing.

«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.

One overwhelmingly good reason not to: he urged people to vote Lib Dem against Labour candidates on the eve of the last general election.

«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.

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.

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.

In a comment made in a speech on the eve of the 2017 General Election and less than a week after the London Bridge attack, she vowed to beef up counter-terror powers by restricting «the freedom and the movements of terrorist suspects when we have enough evidence to know they present a threat, but not enough evidence to prosecute them in full in court... And if human rights laws stop us from doing it, we will change those laws so we can do it.»