Sentences with phrase «general election fought as»

He later wrote a book, The Battle For Power, about the strained relationship between the Liberals and the Social Democratic Party (SDP) during that campaign, the last general election fought as the SDP — Liberal Alliance.

Not exact matches

Labour has much to recover before the general election, yet whether it can fight a united campaign in 2015 is far from assured, and in socialist - minded Scotland the nationalists are seen as having surpassed Labour in their socialist rhetoric.

«This is the largest amount of money ever concealed in an election,» says Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson, as tobacco - style tactics by likes of PepsiCo and Nestle are revealed in Washington State's lawsuit against the Grocery Manufacturers Association over GMO labeling fight.

But analysts cite Labour's decision to fight the battle as an opposition against the incumbent SNP government, a tactic which can't be replicated at the general election.

He urged all men of good conscience to stand up to fight against dictatorship, election rigging and the plot to subvert democracy in Nigeria, noting that 2019 general elections is close by and Ekiti as well as Osun elections are prelude to what to expect in 2019.

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The Majority leader was convinced the motion was just to trap President Mahama all in a desperate attempt to throw dirt at the president as the NDC gears up to fight a crucial general election in December.

Meanwhile, Watson issued a statement in which he appeared to position himself as a caretaker leader who could prepare Labour to fight an imminent general election.

The Social Liberal Forum is committed to ensuring the Liberal Democrats fight the 2015 General Election as an independent party.

As you have stated that you intend to stand in the local, election despite not having been selected for the Party, and despite Mrs Clarke asking you to agree to support whoever is properly selected by the Association to fight the Willerby and Kirkella ward, I am forced to act to protect the Party by refusing to agree to you being nominated to represent the Conservative Party at the 2015 General Election as candidate for Hull West and HesslAs you have stated that you intend to stand in the local, election despite not having been selected for the Party, and despite Mrs Clarke asking you to agree to support whoever is properly selected by the Association to fight the Willerby and Kirkella ward, I am forced to act to protect the Party by refusing to agree to you being nominated to represent the Conservative Party at the 2015 General Election as candidate for Hull West andelection despite not having been selected for the Party, and despite Mrs Clarke asking you to agree to support whoever is properly selected by the Association to fight the Willerby and Kirkella ward, I am forced to act to protect the Party by refusing to agree to you being nominated to represent the Conservative Party at the 2015 General Election as candidate for Hull West andElection as candidate for Hull West and Hesslas candidate for Hull West and Hessle.

Hence whichever group split from Labour (the majority or the minority, the Corbyn group or his opponents) would in the short term lose this share, having not fought the general election as a party.

Whether Boris Johnson or Theresa May, or another as yet unknown candidate, becomes party leader, they will have an uphill battle to unite the Conservatives and fight off calls for another general election.

Mangano, a Republican who is fighting federal corruption charges, missed Tuesday's deadline to submit at least 1,500 signatures to qualify as a new or unestablished minor party candidate in the general election, according to the county Board of Elections.

With over 10,000 British troops fighting the Taliban, the war in Afghanistan is inevitably shaping up as a major issue of the 2010 general election campaign.

That race ended badly, too, with Cuomo losing the Democratic run - off to Ed Koch, then — against the wishes of party leaders — fighting Koch in the general election as the Liberal Party's nominee.

«This autumn both David Cameron and Nick Clegg should ask their parties to approve a binding agreement to fight the 2015 general election as coalition partners... If the voters choose to keep our current system of electing MPs, as I fervently hope they will, the pact would give parliamentary candidates in constituencies in seats held by a coalition party a free run against other parties.

McLaughlin's evident focus on local employment as a candidate and legislator notwithstanding — a 2014 Times Union story observed that she «has fought for jobs access for those in the city's minority communities» — it remains to be seen if this commitment will translate to votes in the Democratic primary, the city's de facto general election.

Gordon Brown today vowed to fight and win the next general election as he unveiled a blueprint for the Labour manifesto designed to win back anxious middle Britain voters.

Made up of a number of ex-textile towns in east Lancashire including Accrington, Great Harwood and Clayton - le - Moors, it is described by Waller and Criddle in the latest edition of The Almanac of British Politics as a «classic Labour - Conservative marginal» which will see a «truly competitive» fight at the general election.

Arising from the issues outlined above, among others, we request for an urgent meeting with the Leader of the party, and the Party Executive leadership to find lasting solutions to the issues raised so as to prepare the party as a fighting force to deliver more pungently on its manifesto and face the 2019 General Elections with even greater commitment.

In the interim, he earned a place on the Approved List of Candidates, and fought the parliamentary seat of Huddersfield in the 2005 general election — as well as a county council seat back home in Amersham.

He fought the constituency at the 2007 Scottish Parliament election (when the SNP gained it from the Liberal Democrats and McGrigor came third) as well as having fought the equivalent seat at the 2005 general election.

As a result of the strained situation after the 2010 general election, the UUP fought the 2011 Assembly elections without any partnership with the Conservatives - the Tories were told to stand down in favour of the UUP.

This was one of the four main pledges on which the Lib Dems fought the general election, and as a former schools spokesman for the party I was particularly pleased and proud to see the delivery of this promise.

As things stand, this rebel says, Labour is simply not going to get enough income to give itself a serious chance to fight the general election.

But on Friday, after polling 4,850 votes to Respect's 660, Hussain vowed to fight Galloway again in next year's general election, if selected as Labour's parliamentary candidate.

The man who fought the 2001 general election warning that Britain as becoming a «foreign land» under Labour is now too reticent with the anti-Brussels bludgeon for the party he once led.

But Watson is fighting on other fronts, too — to stitch together a fretful party, many of whose MPs see Labour's sometimes shaky performance during the referendum campaign as fresh evidence that Jeremy Corbyn is not up to the task of winning the next general election.

He said this was necessary «to prepare the party as a fighting force to deliver more pungently on its manifesto and face the 2019 general elections with even greater commitment.»

Of the party's performance more widely, he said «obviously I'm disappointed at any places where we lost a bit of ground» but described it as a «solid set of results» which left the party «well placed to fight and win the next general election».