Sentences with phrase «nasty party»

This should be the basis of a newspaper article by one of our prominent politicians... I have often been frustrated at the fact that Cameron is never asked why he, nice clean Dave, joined the Tories when they were the nastiest of nasty parties.

Echoing Theresa May's famous soundbite, he added: «Labour is in danger of becoming the new nasty party if this behaviour continues unchecked.»

Nasty party knocked out with 5 votes versus [10Cl, 6 Ni] in first round.

True, Theresa May's Nasty Party conference speech of 2002 angered some Tory activists.

The difficulty for Farage is that while many voters approve of Ukip's immigration policies, there are many more for whom Ukip's reputation as a racist and nasty party remains a major turn - off.

If he stays it's the same old Nasty party.

The Economist has just concluded that New Labour looks like the New Nasty Party.

Lib Dems, as this sentence makes clear, like to think they are pursuing a decent economy (unlike Labour, who can't be trusted) without being cold - hearted business types (unlike the «nasty party» Tories).

Back in 2002, May faced opposition from traditionalist on the right wing of her party after her «nasty party» speech.

Almost 15 years since her «nasty party» warning to her own party, Theresa May has been given a taste of her own medicine.

A significant proportion of people view even the cap on benefits as evidence that the government does not care about the vulnerable, and the epithet «the nasty party» still has some resonance.

«The way in which this is expressed gives enormous power to the secretary of state,» Conservative MP Bill Cash said today adding that «there a danger that we might be regarded as the nasty party if we put this into effect.»

May has described herself as a «one - nation Tory» and she most dramatically set out her modernising credentials in 2002 by warning that that the Conservatives were seen as «the nasty party».

The nasty party,» she told the 2016 Tory conference, to sustained applause.

In that role I well remember her taking the stage at annual conference and insisting the Conservatives must no longer be seen as the «nasty party».

Back in 2002 Theresa May made her name by telling a stunned Conservative Party conference that some people called them the nasty party.

You know what some people call us: the nasty party.»

Harman attacked the Conservative Party at the Labour Party Conference 2007, referring to them as the «nasty party» and suggesting that there would be little competition at the next election.

«Andrew Mitchell should be returned to the Cabinet at the first opportunity Main The lesson of Damian McBride's memoirs is that Labour is the Nasty Party»

I actually think that is a decent argument — policies can be popular on their own but still be part of an unpopular framework (e.g. the Tory policies on immigration were popular, but helped define them as the «nasty party».).

And recent protests over tuition fees in Westminster shows that old attitudes towards «the nasty party» are hard to kill off when the going gets tough - even if you have spent five years changing the party and are now backed by the Liberal Democrats in government.

When she warned colleagues some years ago that people saw the Conservatives as «the nasty party», she clearly knew what she was talking about.

But she also hit headlines with her admission in 2002 that the Conservatives were often seen as the «nasty party».

At the 2002 Party Conference, Theresa May stated that the Tories had to do more to not be seen as the «nasty party».

But getting ex-Labour Brexit voters still wary of the «nasty party» to vote Conservative won't be as easy, as the tightening polls suggest.

Nasty Party!

Her style was calm, collected and, as the «nasty party» reference suggests, not afraid to point out uncomfortable truths in order to help her party win power.

«The lesson of Damian McBride's memoirs is that Labour is the Nasty Party Main Politics is about more than maths - Conservatives must make the moral case for welfare reform»

Shadow education secretary Stephen Twigg said: «When a Tory councillor makes openly racist comments like these, it's no surprise people still think of the Conservatives as the nasty party.

«And whatever happened to the Conservative Party of Theresa May who once warned against becoming the Nasty Party.

The Tories were always the nasty party, but now they've been joined by the Lib Dems.

«It would seem that we are witnessing the return of the Tories as the nasty party,» Mr Khan told the Sunday Mirror.

David Cameron and Boris Johnson have been accused of turning the Tories back into «the nasty party» - in a desperate bid to thwart Labour at this week's local elections.

And throughout this time, one key plank of Mr Cameron's strategy with the electorate was to detoxify the Conservative brand - in a bid to expunge memories of that awful Theresa May description of the Party as the Nasty Party.

Just because, Prentiz, a daft chairwoman in the shape of La May called us «the nasty party» doesn't mean it was true!

The Nasty Party never went away.

All this reminded me of Theresa May's «nasty party» remarks when she was our own party chairman.

Labour said the comments were evidence that the «nasty party» lived on.

John Bercow and co are effectively saying, «yes we are the nasty party».

The Nasty Party comment demonstrates that constant self - recrimination, constantly whinging about the «need for change», is extremely harmful to the Conservative cause.

Labour can no longer afford to be seen as the «nasty party».

After the defeats in the 1997 general election and 2001 general election, the Conservative Party began decisive moves towards becoming more centrist; the 2002 — 2003 party chairman and future Prime Minister, Theresa May, would later state that it had been perceived by voters as the «Nasty Party».

The nasty party is alive and well.»

Takes, as an example Conference week: the day after Michael Howard said that we are not, and never have been, the «nasty party», Teresa took to to the Today Programme to denounce us as sexists for not having more female MPs...

Considering the Tories are trying to stop appearing like a «nasty party» hanging around with a bigot isn't a good idea.