Sentences with phrase «just after the last election»

He said: «This all came on the back of an independent review published just after the last election asking us to look again.

«This all came on the back of an independent review published just after the last election asking us to look again.

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The New Democrats have a choice: prop up a government hungry for their left - leaning supporters, or defeat the budget that they helped craft and force an election just 19 months after the last one.

Just after the US presidential election last November, many Americans were looking for ways to move to Canada and become citizens.

Moore, whose campaign filed a last - minute «election fraud» complaint on Thursday just before the results were certified just after 2 p.m. EST, claimed that widespread voter fraud had contributed to his more than 20,000 vote loss to Jones, a number that was not significantly altered by the inclusion of military and provisional ballots that were later counted.

The GOP holds just a one - seat majority in the chamber after the surprise victory of Democrat Doug Jones in last year's Alabama special election; that means they can lose just one Republican vote, even under reconciliation (Vice President Mike Pence would cast a tie - breaker in the case of a 50 - 50 split).

The Minister of Finance, Jim Flaherty, tabled a budget on June 6, 2011, just over two months after he tabled his last budget, which died on the order paper with the dissolution of Parliament due to the election.

Just last week, Cuomo's «hand - picked» candidate was crushed in a special Senate election in the Southern Tier after the governor failed to mobilize support for her campaign.

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.

Last year's address came just days after his inauguration following a decisive election victory in November of 2010.

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.

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.

Yet, just one point ahead at present, Labour have not enjoyed as much as a five point lead in the polls since last April, while the Conservatives have not been seven points ahead since shortly after the last election.

The Presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has surprisingly congratulated Donald Trump for his historic win, in the just ended elections in the United States of America (USA), after snubbing an invitation from the same man to attend his endorsement at the Republicans National Convention (RNC) in Cleveland — Ohio, last July.

The government has announced changes to the way armed forces personnel can vote after new figures show just a quarter of troops overseas voted in the last election.

I was elected myself in a by - election just six months after our greatest landslide in 1997 and got a comparable share of the vote to that which Liz got last night.

For example, one 2010 study after the last election found that 59 % of Daily Mirror voters voted Labour, and just 16 % voted Conservative.

«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.

With Mr. Grimm planning to step down, the Staten Island and southern Brooklyn district will have to hold a new election just a few months after the last one — on which both parties spent more than $ 5 million.

After saying last week that the state would just repeal the legislation next year if Democratic gubernatorial nominee Phil Murphy wins the election in November, Sweeney began backing away from the claim on Monday.

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.

Sedlis» argument that unions have a «monopoly» on public schools comes after Governor Andrew Cuomo made a similar claim last week, incensing teachers just days before the election.

ALBANY — After reading that state Sen. John Sampson uttered just one word from the Senate floor in the last legislative session, his primary - election opponent offered one word of his own: Resign.

Just two years after the last assembly elections, they are a spent force, and they're not coming back.

Losses in Wales are nothing new for the Liberal Democrats — last year, the party was left with just one seat after the Welsh Assembly election when its four others were taken.

ICM's telephone poll last month showed a strong Labour lead of seven points, but this month the Tories are benefiting from the continuing collapse in support for Ukip, down from 18 % in May — just after its local election success — to 12 % in June and now just 7 %.

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?

That 2014 Election night was to be Mario Cuomo's last public appearance, he died at age 82 on New Year's Day, just after his son gave two inaugural speeches in New York City and in Buffalo, to begin his second term.

«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.

Last night Tory MP Peter Bone accused the Lib Dems of a U-turn over the «shambles» of their «unfair and unworkable» mansion tax policy — just as Mr Clegg abandoned his pledge to scrap university tuition fees after the last ElectLast night Tory MP Peter Bone accused the Lib Dems of a U-turn over the «shambles» of their «unfair and unworkable» mansion tax policy — just as Mr Clegg abandoned his pledge to scrap university tuition fees after the last Electlast Election.

Paddy Ashdown last night stunned Liberal Democrats when he announced that he will resign as party leader after this spring's crucial local and Euro - elections - just as he gets closer to the reins of power than any predecessor since Lloyd George.

And in an Ed Next podcast recorded just after the new school board was elected in Wake County last fall, «Voters Choose Neighborhood Schools Over Socioeconomic Diversity,» Paul Peterson and Chester Finn discussed the election and what it would mean for the county's school assignment policies.

The above is just a small sampling of post-election headlines which flooded the media after last Tuesday's historic election, which generated a major political shakeup in the nation's capital as well as state houses from coast to coast.

After what we've seen the GOP try to pass in states all across the nation prior to the last 2012 election, I see no reason this safeguard against voter suppression should be limited to just Southern states as suggested by VRA of 1965 but now should be expanded to apply to ALL 50 states.

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

When Bolton's name was floated just after the election, Republican Senator Rand Paul penned an op - ed denouncing Bolton as «hell - bent on repeating virtually every foreign policy mistake the US has made in the last 15 years.»