Sentences with phrase «membership after the general election»

The Labour grandee, who served as Olympics minister between 2005 - 2010, also dismissed calls for the leadership race to be halted amid the recent surge in party membership after the general election.

David Cameron has said that Lord Lawson's call for the UK to leave the European Union has drawn attention to his pledge to hold a referendum on EU membership after the general election.

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An astonishing surge in membership after defeat for the Yes campaign in last year's independence referendum was followed by an SNP landslide in May's general election, when the party won 56 of Scotland's 59 constituencies.

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.

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.

[186] Membership increased sharply after the confirmation on 18 April 2017 of the 8 June 2017 general election, again surpassing 100,000 on 24 April 2017.

Despite the dire polls and the equally dire local election results, some 64 % of Labour's post GE2015 membership believe Labour is likely to win the next general election — a figure which rises to 77 % of those who joined after Corbyn became leader.

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

After the last general election the party intrusted a whole host of negotiators many of them unelected spads to thrash out deals on behalf of the party behind closed doors with no mandate from the membership whatsoever.

The referendum was called after Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron made a manifesto commitment in the 2015 UK general election to undertake a renegotiation of the UK's membership to the European Union which would be followed by a in - out referendum.

By declaring that he will defer an in - out referendum until after the next general election and after a renegotiation on our terms of membership within the European Union, he walked headlong into three big problems.

The legislation does what it says on the tin, basically making provision about the determination of the day of the poll at the first ordinary general election for membership of the Scottish Parliament after 2016 and about the year in which local government elections fall to be held.