Sentences with phrase «hustings which»

«The meeting came after five of the hopefuls made their case to the GMB union at a hustings which saw Mr McDonnell win loud applause by attacking Margaret Thatcher's cuts in the 1980s.

Shurely this is a mishtake = they have just finished 8 weeks and twenty hustings which have been widely reported and several of which can be replayed on the web.

Not exact matches

Senate Republicans, meanwhile, attacked Kaminsky for being on the hustings this week and not in his seat in the state Assembly, which is back in session this week after passing the budget.

Otherwise we are in danger of having a series of hustings in which the candidates all share similar limited horizons and we finish up with a series of non-debates where we are expected judge who is likely to be the best celebrity.

Arron Banks spoke out after last night's leadership hustings during which one candidate called for the death penalty for paedophiles, but not if the child «looked 18».

Corbyn made the comments at a hustings hosted by the Guardian at which the candidates also clashed on the economic record of the Blair and Brown era, and Labour's approach to Europe.

Speaking to the Western Mail before the hustings - which are not open to the media - Mr Cameron insisted that the Welsh assembly was here to stay, despite being established with only a very narrow referendum vote in 1997.

The final selection hustings for the seat, which has a 21,000 Labour majority, will take place on Saturday, when party members will vote for their preferred candidate to fight the by - election in June.

This will be followed by six weeks of campaigning, the final three of which will see hustings take place across the country.

He beat three other UKIP candidates in the hustings vote, which was held in Ramsgate in the east Kent constituency.

Ed Balls was in good form at last night's Labour leadership hustings at the TUC conference, producing a string of jokes which rather suggested that he thinks the contest is all over as far as he's concerned.

The people's party has become a travelling circus in which the five leadership candidates perform at endless hustings and get reacquainted with an electorate that told them to take a running jump.

There were a few dog - whistle moments in the hustings - odd barbed asides which probably serve no purpose other than to niggle the opponent.

Labour has done nowhere near enough to address the basic charge of economic mismanagement; from the ludicrously long leadership hustings, which allowed the coalition government an unrivalled opportunity to set the political narrative for four whole months, to Balls» stupid delight in his «flat - lining» gesture, the damage has been done and is yet to be repaired.

In a letter to current party chairman Lord Feldman he said: ««Given the national urgency in making this final leadership decision, I believe that these hustings should be held over a three week period, during which time members can cast their ballots.

And No Child Left Behind was an unpopular law in 2008, which all of the candidates discovered when they went out on the hustings.