Sentences with phrase «move the party back»

Those who seek to move our party back to the right and off the centre ground will only achieve one thing and that is to damage the very thing that they say is so dear to them.

The media, eager for a new story after years of Tory failure and with an increasingly unpopular Labour government, gave him the glowing coverage he craved, helping him to «decontaminate» the Tory brand and move the party back towards the centre ground, where, the conventional wisdom has it, British elections are won and lost.

Not exact matches

«What the president wants is to move spending from, say, overseas back in this country,» said Trump's budget director, former tea party Rep. Mick Mulvaney, R-S.C.

For instance, George Washington University political scientist John Sides found that the white working - class voters who had first backed Barack Obama only to vote for Trump in 2016 were already moving toward the Republican Party before the campaign got underway.

God started with a small party in a garden, moved on toward some pow - wows at alters in the desert, then moved into a moveable tabernacle (kind of like an Old Testament RV), then reigned in a temple (especially the God - cave of the Holy of Holies, then disappeared while giving the Jews the silent treatment for some 400 years, then came back to the temple, then traveled the highways and byways with anyone who wanted to join the fun and whooped it up with society's outcasts and wedding attenders, then moved on to some public forums, then into some clandestine home groups and a few jail cells, and eventually made his way into traditional church as we now know it.

Because it was a democratic administration which finally broke the backs of segregation in the 1960's, those who fought so bitterly against integration moved to the republican party to the regret of many republicans who are finding no home for the expression of their true political beliefs.

Romney was way out of touch with his own state, should held his party in right wing back water Texas, a state moving backwards not forwards.

In 1992, however, Seculars moved dramatically back into the Democratic column, with 55 percent supporting Clinton in a three - way race (73 percent of the two - party vote).

Move our party away from the hate and the ignorant religious nuts and back to a more moderate middle so we can gain more support.

The more reasonable members of the GOP are fed up with the Tea Partiers and Creationists, and are going to make a move to take back control of their party from the numbskulls who have held sway for a decade now.

Her bday is Dec 20th, but with other Dec bdays and the class Christmas party on the 19th (the last day before Christmas break) her party got moved back to the 17th this year.

I think the move is positive for all parties, my only concern is that with Mertesacker and Gabriel currently out injured for a few months at least, one more injury in defence could see Arsenal struggle for centre backs once again.

While it's unlikely that Spurs will get their initial outlay back now, it could be a move to suit all parties as any fee received will ultimately allow Tottenham to go out and strengthen their squad where needed.

With Rob Holding, Laurent Koscielny, Shkodran Mustafi and even Nacho Monreal moving ahead of him in Arsene Wenger's plans at the back, an exit seems to be the most sensible solution for both parties as the Gunners continue to try and cut their wage bill.

From having parties and entertaining friends, coming and going as and when we please, deciding to travel to the UK for 2 years, which meant moving back in with my parents for 6 months to save, working and saving (and more saving because at that time is was R18 to the Pound) and finally we were ready to go explore.

UPDATE: Doheny released a statement in response to Stefanik's endorsement by the Conservatives, calling it a «shocking» move by party officials that ignores the will of rank - and - file members who signed his nominating petitions and backed him two years ago.

As the Independent Democratic Conference moves toward being abolished, the labor - aligned Working Families Party on Wednesday in a statement said it would continue to back challengers to IDC incumbents.

Recall that in the last election cycle, Cuomo created the Women's Equality Party — or WEP — a move widely seen in part as an effort to confuse voters — after all, E comes right before F in the alphabet — and get back at the WFP for daring to even consider backing a candidate other than Cuomo... more on this in a moment.

Late last year, he backed a plan that would unify the party in the state Senate in a bid to gain a governing majority for Democrats in the Senate, a move that came after pressure from the political left in New York.

The state Independence Party has endorsed Republican Matt Doheny's challenge to Democratic Rep. Bill Owens in NY - 23 — a move that could prove significant in the GOP's effort to win back the North Country seat it had held for over a century until last year's special election loss.

Parties moving back towards their long - run average level of support and / or the level of support at the previous election.

In an unusual move, the party's state committee voted to back two hopefuls for attorney general: New York City Public Advocate Letitia James, whom Cuomo supports, and law professor Zephyr Teachout.

If the current administration and Democratic Congress won't stand up against a corrupt system and even attempt reform, attempt structural change or pull us back from the last 3 decades where BOTH parties have moved firmly to the right, they're part of the problem.

Such a move would require a change to Labour's constitution to be passed by the party conference, but given that the unions — most of which back Corbyn — hold 50 % of the votes, it would be possible.

He may rely on others to enforce discipline: Ken Livingstone's old backroom team from his London mayoral days; constituency parties threatening to de-select rebellious MPs; the major union leaders moving back into frontline Labour politics.

The move is a signal that the party is hoping James, who was first elected to public office with the WFP's backing, would eventually take its ballot line in the fall should she win the primary contest.

«I think the idea that you say because of one of the candidates is a mother they're the one you should back suggests a paucity of intellectual argument which the Labour Party really should have moved beyond.

Such an effect might also see Labour move back towards the vast majority of BME candidates in high minority population seats — ie less Parmjit Dhanda / Ashok Kumar examples of representing areas with low BME populations — but one difference between Labour and the other parties is that Labour does hold such seats, and so the effect of very strong local preferences in the other parties would be stronger.

Yes, the party did get Andrew Cuomo to accept its line and moved up from Row E to Row D as a result of his performance in the 2010 election, but there were a lot of strings attached to that agreement — not the least of which was the labor - backed party's silence in the budget battle over the millionaire's tax last year, which is something the WFP would normally be all over.

During the election campaign, decision makers from Bucharest have backed the current governing coalition, a move that, in theory at least, could have significant implications for relations between the two countries if Igor Dodon, the leader of Moldova's opposition Socialist Party and the pre-election favourite, manages to win the contest on 30 October.

But leaders of the party said Saturday they would not play into Cuomo's «divide and conquer» tactics, instead nominating longtime state committee member Kenny Schafer as a placeholder candidate — a move, POLITICO reported Thursday, that gives them the option of backing whomever is picked by the Democratic Party during its convention in the coming party said Saturday they would not play into Cuomo's «divide and conquer» tactics, instead nominating longtime state committee member Kenny Schafer as a placeholder candidate — a move, POLITICO reported Thursday, that gives them the option of backing whomever is picked by the Democratic Party during its convention in the coming Party during its convention in the coming week.

Today labour has moved back to the left and the right wingers are not happy the talk of setting up new right wing parties to out do the left.

The Labour leader then made the same move with caps on party donations, reiterating his call for David Cameron to come back to the negotiating table to set a limit on individual donations, probably around the # 5,000 mark.

But he quit the Labour Party last year, saying he had «lost confidence» in the party under Ed Miliband's leadership because it had made a «policy shift moving back towards what Old Labour stood for&raParty last year, saying he had «lost confidence» in the party under Ed Miliband's leadership because it had made a «policy shift moving back towards what Old Labour stood for&raparty under Ed Miliband's leadership because it had made a «policy shift moving back towards what Old Labour stood for».

Ken Ball, the leader of the Lib Dems on Chorley council, which moved to no overall control, was quoted as saying the party leader had «let the party down» and «put us back 40 years».

Union leaders closely allied with Gov. Cuomo are considering creating their own ballot line to back him as the left - leaning Working Families Party is moving toward nominating Nixon for governor, sources told The Post.

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The move follows the endorsement of the Orleans County Republican Party, which is also backing Bellavia.

She's not the only one of this opinion: Rove is reportedly backing a political action committee tasked with finding primary challengers for candidates that might be too far to the right for a party hoping to move towards the center.

Replacing Howard with a leader who is seen as less extreme should help the Conservatives move people's perception of them closer to the centre ground, and once Labour's leader is a figure who is percieved as being on the other side of the psychological left - right divide they may be in a better position to win support back from Labour amongst right - of - centre voters, but either way you cut it they are still as by far the most extreme of the three main parties.

The more seats a party or grouping has, the more chance it has of forming a government - with 198 seats out of 646 the Conservative Party could only form a government if significant numbers of other MP's decided to back them, as happened in 1924 when there was a situation that the Conservatives didn't want to form a coalition with either other main party and equally the Liberals didn't want a coalition with Labour and the Liberals and Conservatives saw it as an opportunity to allow Labour into government but in a situation in which legislation was still reliant on Liberal and Conservative votes and they could be brought down at the most suitable time, supposing the notional gains were accurate and in the improbable event of the next election going exactly the same way in terms of votes then 214 out of 650 is 32.93 % of seats compared to at 198 out of 646 seats - 30.65 % of seats and the Conservative Party would then be 14 seats closer towards a total neccessary to form a government allowing for the greater number of seats, on the one hand the Conservatives need Labour to fail but equally they need to succeed themselves given that the Liberal Democrats appear likely to oppose anyone forming a government who does not embark on a serious programme to introduce PR, in addition PC & SNP would expect moves towards Independence for Scotland and Wales, the SDLP will be likely to back Labour and equally UKIP would want a committment to withdraw from Europe and anyway will be likely to be in small numbers if any, pretty much that leaves cutting a deal with the DUP which would only add the backing of an extra 10 - 13 party or grouping has, the more chance it has of forming a government - with 198 seats out of 646 the Conservative Party could only form a government if significant numbers of other MP's decided to back them, as happened in 1924 when there was a situation that the Conservatives didn't want to form a coalition with either other main party and equally the Liberals didn't want a coalition with Labour and the Liberals and Conservatives saw it as an opportunity to allow Labour into government but in a situation in which legislation was still reliant on Liberal and Conservative votes and they could be brought down at the most suitable time, supposing the notional gains were accurate and in the improbable event of the next election going exactly the same way in terms of votes then 214 out of 650 is 32.93 % of seats compared to at 198 out of 646 seats - 30.65 % of seats and the Conservative Party would then be 14 seats closer towards a total neccessary to form a government allowing for the greater number of seats, on the one hand the Conservatives need Labour to fail but equally they need to succeed themselves given that the Liberal Democrats appear likely to oppose anyone forming a government who does not embark on a serious programme to introduce PR, in addition PC & SNP would expect moves towards Independence for Scotland and Wales, the SDLP will be likely to back Labour and equally UKIP would want a committment to withdraw from Europe and anyway will be likely to be in small numbers if any, pretty much that leaves cutting a deal with the DUP which would only add the backing of an extra 10 - 13 Party could only form a government if significant numbers of other MP's decided to back them, as happened in 1924 when there was a situation that the Conservatives didn't want to form a coalition with either other main party and equally the Liberals didn't want a coalition with Labour and the Liberals and Conservatives saw it as an opportunity to allow Labour into government but in a situation in which legislation was still reliant on Liberal and Conservative votes and they could be brought down at the most suitable time, supposing the notional gains were accurate and in the improbable event of the next election going exactly the same way in terms of votes then 214 out of 650 is 32.93 % of seats compared to at 198 out of 646 seats - 30.65 % of seats and the Conservative Party would then be 14 seats closer towards a total neccessary to form a government allowing for the greater number of seats, on the one hand the Conservatives need Labour to fail but equally they need to succeed themselves given that the Liberal Democrats appear likely to oppose anyone forming a government who does not embark on a serious programme to introduce PR, in addition PC & SNP would expect moves towards Independence for Scotland and Wales, the SDLP will be likely to back Labour and equally UKIP would want a committment to withdraw from Europe and anyway will be likely to be in small numbers if any, pretty much that leaves cutting a deal with the DUP which would only add the backing of an extra 10 - 13 party and equally the Liberals didn't want a coalition with Labour and the Liberals and Conservatives saw it as an opportunity to allow Labour into government but in a situation in which legislation was still reliant on Liberal and Conservative votes and they could be brought down at the most suitable time, supposing the notional gains were accurate and in the improbable event of the next election going exactly the same way in terms of votes then 214 out of 650 is 32.93 % of seats compared to at 198 out of 646 seats - 30.65 % of seats and the Conservative Party would then be 14 seats closer towards a total neccessary to form a government allowing for the greater number of seats, on the one hand the Conservatives need Labour to fail but equally they need to succeed themselves given that the Liberal Democrats appear likely to oppose anyone forming a government who does not embark on a serious programme to introduce PR, in addition PC & SNP would expect moves towards Independence for Scotland and Wales, the SDLP will be likely to back Labour and equally UKIP would want a committment to withdraw from Europe and anyway will be likely to be in small numbers if any, pretty much that leaves cutting a deal with the DUP which would only add the backing of an extra 10 - 13 Party would then be 14 seats closer towards a total neccessary to form a government allowing for the greater number of seats, on the one hand the Conservatives need Labour to fail but equally they need to succeed themselves given that the Liberal Democrats appear likely to oppose anyone forming a government who does not embark on a serious programme to introduce PR, in addition PC & SNP would expect moves towards Independence for Scotland and Wales, the SDLP will be likely to back Labour and equally UKIP would want a committment to withdraw from Europe and anyway will be likely to be in small numbers if any, pretty much that leaves cutting a deal with the DUP which would only add the backing of an extra 10 - 13 MP's.

In a move the chairwoman of its local [East Hampton] chapter, Elaine Jones, characterized as a «back room deal,» Zachary Cohen has been replaced by Bill Wilkinson [registered Republican] as the Independence Party candidate for East Hampton Town Supervisor.

Despite slipping one point David Cameron and co managed to move ahead of the Labour party, who lost two percentage points to fall back to 36 %.

In this piece, one key Corbyn ally argues that the Labour leader's critics within the parliamentary party need to get back behind him or consider moving on altogether.

«In these past ten months we have moved back to the ground on which this party's success has always been built.

Deputy Senate Majority Leader John DeFrancisco said during a CapTon interview last night that he would back Dadey if he decides to move forward with his bid to run the state party, which the Syracuse senator says hasn't been performing up to snuff in recent years.

«And all I'm saying is that we need, within the Labour party, to have a fundamental debate on what the party stands for before we move back to those types of positions.

As Buffalo Sen. Mark Grisanti plans to move forward in the general election on the Independence Party ballot line this November, Senate Republicans are not yet committing to backing him this fall.

Explaining their moves, the councillors both backed up this interpretation with Anderson - aka Labour MP Gloria de Piero's office manager - insisting: «The Labour party is no longer the party I joined.

Padavan has an ally in Mayor Bloomberg, who has long been a supporter of the veteran GOP lawmaker and appears inclined to continue to do so, even as he moves away from a policy of strictly contributing to the Senate Republicans in favor of backing individuals lawmakers on a case - by - case basis, regardless of their party affiliation.