Sentences with phrase «last general election»

Nor does a focus on the failings of Labour's last general election campaign provide a sufficient analysis of the depth of electoral disillusionment with progressive politics at the moment.

This time — with the important caveat set out below — the more people who vote Liberal Democrat on 6 May, the greater the chance that this will be Britain's last general election under a first - past - the - post electoral system which is wholly unsuited to the political needs of a grown - up 21st - century democracy.

And for those who say that this weekend's Special Conference has cleverly bound the unions in for one last general election push, and if the reforms don't work they can be unpicked in five years?

In 2005, Blair's last general election campaign, it spent # 17.9 m.

The last general election was held in 1999.

Last May, she wrote of Muscat: «It's only a matter of time before that corrupt bastard begins quoting Francis of Assisi's famous prayer at us again as he did in the last general election.

Since the last general election, women have become poorer, less equal and more vulnerable.

The Bill was in the end lost, of course, through delay in the Lords, Tory Opposition, and the ineluctable arrival of the last general election.

During the last general election, Kenny Imafidon produced the awardwinning «Kenny Report» blogs, which were designed to raise awareness and articulate the challenges faced by young people and disadvantaged communities.

«During the last General Election nothing has struck me more than the educative effect of the vote upon the agricultural labourers in the village in which I live.

He noted that neither Labour nor the Conservatives had mentioned the «M» word in their respective manifestos at the last general election.

So much like Nick Clegg before the last General Election, Wenger proposed a «third way».

Just one per cent of the electorate - less than half a million voters in marginal swing seats - determined the outcome of the last general election.

Mr Galloway won the seat of Bethnal Green and Bow from Labour's Oona King in the last general election on an anti-Iraq war ticket, and has been a vocal opponent of the occupation by British and US forces.

In one respect we're seeing a return to the last general election, when Cleggmania swept the country and the Lib Dems, briefly, polled in excess of 30 %.

Nuneaton tends to swing with the overall winner, which is why everyone knew that Ed Miliband was in trouble in the last general election.

No one disagrees with this, in fact all main political parties committed to tackling homelessness in their manifestos in the run up to the last general election.

To the millions who voted Conservative at the last general election, the good news is we will deliver our policies.

At the last General Election, the electorate as a whole rejected an often - angry Ed Miliband because they considered him more interested in helping those on welfare than hard working people.

But, polls show that at least 40 % of the British public, many of whom voted Labour in the last general election, agree with me.

Okonkwo allegedly helped to distribute it to beneficiaries two days to the last general elections.

Shortly after the last general election, the Mail published an article about Nick Clegg's diverse background titled: «His wife is Spanish, his mother Dutch, his father half - Russian and his spin doctor German.

Only weeks after the last general election, a Mail on Sunday poll showed that 63 % of people in the UK supported scrapping Trident to reduce the deficit.

Despite a slight recovery at the last General Election, there was a worrying overall fall in electoral turnout during Labour's watch.

The British Election Study shows that only around 40 per cent of 18 and 19 year olds turned out in the last general election compared to two thirds of the electorate as a whole.

Opposition MPs will be delighted at this development after Cameron repeatedly taunted Gordon Brown for his Downing Street tantrums before the last general election.

(2) Any of the following documents, provided that the document includes the name and address of the individual presenting it, and is dated since the date of the last general election...

Taking a mandate from his small base (compared to the UK population and also the nine million people that voted Labour at the last general election), he and Momentum are sweeping the nation with a message of progressive change.

In fact, at the last general election, the Conservative party actually held a small opinion poll lead among teachers.

Prior to the last general election, for example, I found the Green Party inspiring on several issues: support for refugees, higher top - tier tax rates, free education, and radical environmental policies.

Ukip's 3.9 m votes at the last General Election and the mission accomplishment of Brexit may prove the party's high water mark with the only way is down.

She also spoke about how the last general election had been the hardest campaign of her life.

He lost his bid to return to the lower chamber of the National Assembly in the last general election.

The anti-migrant party won one seat at the last general election.

He said there had not been «the remotest possibility» of a coalition with Labour at the last general election because «the numbers didn't add up.»

In each seat we spoke to two types of people: those who voted no to Scottish independence in 2014, Labour or Liberal Democrat in 2015, and who were undecided what to do this time round; and those who voted SNP at the last general election and to leave the EU in last year's referendum.

At least 1 % of the total votes cast at the last general election for governor, or 250 signatures, whichever is less

This means that, in contrast to the position in the last five parliaments, none of the ward level results this year can be compared directly with what happened at the time of the last general election.

Even in the suburban and rural areas where Labour was able to gain some traction from 1997 onwards, the last General Election saw a massive swing to the Tories.

It's time for David Cameron to stop ducking and diving and agree to those TV debates, just like at the last general election, so the country can make its choice.

A well - networked youthful Tory moderate, Meredith narrowly missed out on becoming a Conservative MP at the last general election.

His former immigration spokesman Phil Woolas's shameless tactics in Oldham East and Saddleworth during the last general election campaign, and subsequent ejection from Parliament, have offered a well - timed opportunity for Labour to give the coalition and, in particular, Nick Clegg, a thrashing in the by - election on 13 January - the first significant electoral test of the coalition's popularity.

His suggestion that the debates should be «just like at the last general election» is being interpreted as ruling out the participation of Nigel Farage.

06 December 2010 — GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS: STAFF Question: To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people were employed by the Department for International Development (a) at the last general election, and (b) now; and what is the expected number in 12 months» time.

They are among four men charged with orchestrating the violence that unfolded in the aftermath of Kenya's last general election in 2007.

This reminds me just before the last general election a Labour spy was in a private meeting held by a Tory MP talking about the party having to put up taxes if the Tories won the election which went against the party line.

2001 was the last General Election in which no party used an all women shortlist measure.

«The Rochdale pensioner who sealed Gordon Brown's downfall before the last general election has issued a damning verdict on Ed Miliband and his Shadow Cabinet... In a blow for the current Labour leader, Mrs Duffy said that Mr Miliband was not on course to become Prime Minister.