Sentences with phrase «just after the general election»

In an interview with the Guardian, the MP for Hull West and Hessle said that when the Lib Dems came to talk to Labour in May 2010, just after the general election resulted in the first hung parliament in 36 years, he believed the two parties would form a coalition.

Just after the general election, and as part of our ESRC - funded project on party membership in the twentieth - first century, in conjunction with YouGov we conducted surveys not only of members of these parties but also of their most enthusiastic supporters who, for whatever reason, weren't actually members.

Here's a revealing interview that Michael Dugher gave to the New Statesman's Anoosh Chakelian just after the general election.

Matthew O'Toole, who was the chief press officer in Downing Street until just after the general election, agrees that keeping the Brexit big beasts on side will be tough.

Not exact matches

Cambridge Analytica has filed insolvency proceedings just weeks after it was embroiled at the center of a political scandal involving Facebook's data protection policies, the 2016 US general election of President Trump and the ethics of online advertising.

Six months after an inconclusive general election, Spain just elected a new Parliament.

Just nine months after the general election, conversations with Tory insiders about the new intake tend to yield a familiar set of names of one to watch.

After Scottish Labour was all but wiped out in the 2015 general election, winning just one of 59 Westminster seats, Kezia Dugdale stepped up to fill a leadership void.

Rangel was later censured by the House for financial misconduct in December 2010 — just months after he won both the September primary and the November general election.

His failure to mention it in his 2014 party conference speech was just one sign of a rather muddled approach to the problem; after the 2010 election, the party's initial strategy was to talk about the necessity of cuts in general while opposing some of the most high - profile cuts introduced by the coalition, particularly when it came to welfare.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Preet for New York attorney general is a political action committee filed with the Federal Election Committee last week, just days after Eric Schneiderman resigned as New York's top law enforcement officer.

The following graph shows results for those local elections, like this year's, that were held just a year after a general election.

However, you seem to imply that just by announcing the proposed cut (sometime last year I think) it would somehow go directly into the consciousness of voters who aren't political obsessives and so make a difference to the LD ratings The truth is that for the LD's it will take a general election campaign and Clegg / Cable / Hune hammering the issue home in debate after debate after debate for it to register with people who don't pay much attention to the ups and downs of everyday politics, let alone the tax proposals of the 3rd party.

The most brutal irony of Gordon Brown's now - confirmed attendance at the Iraq inquiry before the general election is that, after staying silent on the issue for years, he now has to speak out just when it could do him maximum political damage.

But after all these years, it will be just months before his first general election as prime minister.

It's worth remembering that the House of Commons does not meet immediately after a general election anyway — and the process of determining who will be prime minister need not be swift just because the media and the public expect it to be.

As usual, the models exclude local elections on the same day as a general election and also 1992 when the local elections were held just a month after.

We surveyed Labour members just after the 2015 General Election, and then ran a second survey in May this year so we could capture those who joined the party after the eElection, and then ran a second survey in May this year so we could capture those who joined the party after the electionelection.

Just after Labour lost last May's general election, we surveyed its grassroots members as part of a study of party membership in 21st Century Britain.

Tanner joins the agency as its chief policy adviser having resigned as deputy head of the Number 10 policy unit just days after the general election — and hot on the heels of the prime minister's chiefs of staff Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill.

We generally expect our Westminster general elections to result in clear outcomes: think of Margaret Thatcher's speedy arrival in Downing Street after Callaghan's departure in 1979, or Tony Blair strolling into Number 10 just as the removal lorries left the back with John Major's belongings inside them.

13th June 2017, Huffington Post: Labour Party membership soars by 35,000 in just four days — after «Corbyn surge» in 2017 General Election

The former director of public prosecutions has only just become an MP after being elected in Frank Dobson's old seat of Holborn and St Pancras, in North London at the general election.

That could be as late as Oct. 16, after the GOP primary and just shortly before the general election.

The Prime Minister called for an early general election on Tuesday just weeks after starting the formal process of Britain leaving the EU, causing exasperation amongst some EU leaders.

Among the proposals are that the generous resettlement grants for MPs who voluntarily step down will come to an end from the general election after next, with MPs receiving just eight weeks» pay instead.

Fletcher's resignation comes just a week after Jon Trickett was dumped as Labour's general election co-ordinator, and replaced by Andrew Gwynne and Ian Lavery.

It wasn't just Labour and Liberal Democrat activists in despair the morning after the general election — the polling industry woke up to find itself in crisis after an abject failure to predict the right result.

The endorsement comes just two weeks after TP published exclusive footage of Brand saying he was «not a political man»... and that he had not registered to vote in the 2015 general election.

It represents a dramatic fall in the Hammond's popularity among party members in recent weeks - after he was given a rating of plus 32.4 just before the general election.

«Preet for New York Attorney General» is a political action committee filed with the Federal Election Committee last week, just days after Eric Schneiderman resigned as New York's top law enforcement officer.

My fall - back hope is that if it's to be just AV at a referendum after the general election, that might still be enough to encourage the reawakening of some kind of anti-Tory coalition, with Cameron revealed as the democratic dinosaur he clearly is — enough to deliver at least a hung parliament.

The regulations will come just two days after state legislative primary elections and two months before the general election.

The Independence Party, whose line helped the D's win the 20th CD earlier this year, has enthusiastically endorsed Sen. Aubertine, just months after they endorsed his opponents in the state senate special and general elections.

On Saturday 15 May, barely a week after the general election and just five days after David Cameron walked in to 10 Downing Street, Ed Miliband used an address to the Fabian Society to confirm growing speculation that he was planning to stand for the Labour leadership.

In the cabinet appointed after the 2015 general election, exactly a third of all ministers permitted to attend cabinet were women — although they made up just 20 % of those appointed as ministers of state — the highest rank of junior minister.

And just six weeks ago, just after Theresa May called the general election, Johnson said during an interview with The Guardian: «There is no realistic chance of us winning.»

The Liberal Democrats will be looking for an signs of recovery after disaster at the last General Election in 2015 which saw them dip from more than 50 MPs to just 8.

They were revealed just days after he was reinstated as the party's general election candidate in South Basildon and East Thurrock.

Corbyn's comments came just hours after Prime Minister Theresa May announced she wants to hold a snap General Election on 8 June this year.

But wasn't the whole point of the Jeremy Corbyn project to reverse that trend, not have a further dramatic drop of support just two years after the last general election?

«If you look at the internal research and polling which suggest Labour could lose up to three million of the people that voted for us at the last general election, that same research shows that one of their principal concerns is security and the nuclear deterrent and the party's attitude towards it — to know that and to knowingly go and worsen the perception of the party in the eyes of the voting public will precipitate a response which will not help the Labour party not just for this election but the for general election after that and for who knows how many elections after that.

But Mr Miliband backed Mr Corbyn and said Labour could «absolutely» win a general election under him, just weeks after supporting Owen Smith for the leadership because he wanted someone who could make the party a «serious alternative government».

Just a month after the 2012 general election, the Governor called the outgoing members of the Connecticut General Assembly into a special session to address a projected budget deficit in the Fiscal Year 2013 State general election, the Governor called the outgoing members of the Connecticut General Assembly into a special session to address a projected budget deficit in the Fiscal Year 2013 State General Assembly into a special session to address a projected budget deficit in the Fiscal Year 2013 State Budget.

Just after the Canadian election last month we imagined the Liberal leader going to the Governor General and saying:

With an uncertain general election then lying ahead and the market this side of the Atlantic only just fully back up to speed after the financial crash, international law firms in the City could have been forgiven for lying low in 2014.