Sentences with phrase «national conservative party»

But receipts for national Conservative party spending show that # 18,000 was spent on accommodation for party workers in the Royal Harbour hotel in Ramsgate, in the South Thanet constituency, and a Premier Inn in Margate, which is just outside it.

Long excluded the national conservative party from NY.

Mike Whitehead, an East Riding councillor standing for selection as MP for Hull West and Hessle, said he was «disgusted» with the behaviour of the ruling Tory group in East Yorkshire, and the «wilful refusal» of the national Conservative Party to intervene.

Not exact matches

«I think the conservative media is the worst thing that has ever happened to the Republican Party on a national level,» he said.

These changes have caused some of the most radical members of her party to criticise her choices, most notably causing a row between her and her niece, Marion - Maréchal Le Pen, a member of Parliament for the National Front, who is even more conservative than her aunt.

A founding member of the Reform Party, he quit Ottawa to become head of the anti-tax National Citizens Coalition, «on the libertarian side of the conservative movement,» as he described it.

As part of its 2006 election platform, the Conservative Party promised to «create an Independent Budget Authority to provide objective analysis directly to Parliament about the state of the nation's finances and trends in the national economy; require government departments and agencies to provide timely information to the Parliamentary Budget Authority to ensure it has the information it needs to provide accurate analyses to Parliament; and ensure that government fiscal forecasts are updated quarterly and that they provide complete data for both revenue and spending forecasts».

Conservative HP boss Meg Whitman defied her political party to call Trump a demagogue that «undermined the fabric of our national character.»

On September 16th, Preston Manning published an article on the recent defeat of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) at the hands of the conservative Liberal - National coalition in the Globe and Mail.

The Conservative party will begin its National Convention in Calgary on Thursday of this week.

Mr. Cooper is known in political circles for his hard - line conservative positions and has been involved in politics since he was a teenaged national director of the Canadian Alliance Party.

During the nomination race, Edmonton - McClung PC MLA David Xiao was disqualified from the contest by the Conservative Party National Council (Mr. Xiao was defeated in this month's provincial election).

If Mr. Xiao's disqualification is upheld by the Conservative Party National Council, it is expected that Edmonton hotel manager Kelly McCauley will be acclaimed as the party's candidate for the next federal elecParty National Council, it is expected that Edmonton hotel manager Kelly McCauley will be acclaimed as the party's candidate for the next federal elecparty's candidate for the next federal election.

UPDATE (October 16, 2014): According to reliable sources, Mr. Xiao's appeal has been rejected by the Conservative Party of Canada National Council.

Mr. Marciano recently stepped down from his position on the National Council of the Conservative Party of Canada and served as Campaign Manager for Edmonton - Centre MP Laurie Hawn in 2004 and 2006, and for Nunavut MP Leona Aglukkaq in 2008.

The Republican National Committee did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the social conservative criticisms of the party on Thursday.

Akin's campaign became a national cause for conservative Christian activists after the Republican Party abandoned the candidate and encouraged him to drop out over his abortion remark.

But six months after the Conservatives lost national elections to the Liberal party, the four - person, $ 5 million Office of Religious Freedom (ORF) has been shut down.

The Conservative manifesto said the party would raise the thresholds at which both employees and employers start paying national insurance to offset the damage - and use # 6 billion of savings in 2010/11 to pay for it.

Local elections are often said to be about local issues but actually most of the changes over time in shares of council seats won the Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats can be accounted for by changes the popularity of these parties at the national level.

Commenting on today's speech by the Chancellor of the Exchequer at Conservative Party Conference, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union said:

The Conservative Party had no national level membership lists before 1945 and constituency associations jealousy guarded their independence.

UKIP are a massive local challenge to Labour, not a major disrupter of the national political conversation and not a national challenge to the Conservative Party.

The numerous attempts to establish an explicitly national liberal and conservative party were thus pushed towards the extreme right in order to extend their electoral appeal.

Very recently the UK Independence Party won the 2014 European elections, the first time in over 100 years that neither the socialist labour or conservative parties had won a national election.

For Marquand, the Conservative Party under Mrs Thatcher represented a revival of the Tory national tradition, which stresses authority in society and the state.

And the radical left traditions of the Levellers, Fabians, Liberty, non-conformism, the Liberal and Labour parties have deep English roots, of course, though I appreciate there are many other complementary and competing Englishnesses, liberal, conservative and other traditions, around the CofE, the Monarchy, the Daily Mail and many other things which are part of the national furniture.

Long wouldn't say whether the bill's passage — which 18 Republicans in the conference ultimately voted against — would ultimately mean a loss of support from the influential Conservative Party or from the National Rifle Association.

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The state Conservative Party is so far sticking by Hoffman, but GOP leaders are wondering if the lack of national attention on NY - 23 in the upcoming general election could mean last year's Tea Party cause célèbre no longer has sufficient star power to carry their banner into the race.

Coverage and analyses of the recent British general election of 7 May have focused predominantly on the surprise victory of the Conservatives, the poor showing of Labour, and the close to clean sweep of the Scottish National Party (SNP).

Mr Cable admitted it would be «difficult to work with the Conservatives or Labour» in the event of a hung Parliament, but added that it was the Liberal Democrat's mindset to show «we can work with other parties in the national interest».

Because of the issues raised by David Davis in the by - election, many parties other than the Conservatives, such as Labour, Liberal Democrats, United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) and British National Party (BNP) chose not to stand.

My research in 2014 has included a weekly national telephone poll, surveys in over 100 marginal seats, two rounds of my Project Blueprint research on the quest for a Conservative majority, a detailed study of voters» attitudes to Europe, polling - day surveys of voters in the European elections, five by - election polls, and regular updates on the state of the parties.

Rural residents tend to vote for the Republican ticket, although there are sizable numbers of Conservative Democrats who cross party lines and vote Republican in national elections.

The introduction of metro mayors, on the other hand, was part of the Conservative Party manifesto ahead of the 2015 general election, and part of their wider plan to devolve more powers from national government to city regions.

In 2010, though the Conservatives did not achieve the national vote share they wanted, the party's targeting strategy meant it won 23 more Labour seats and 9 more Liberal Democrat seats than it would have done on a uniform swing.

National pundits began to speak of moderate Republican candidates being «Scozzafavaed» by tea party challengers and the GOP's conservative wing.

Today, conservative Democrats are generally regarded as members of the Democratic Party who are more conservative than the national political party as a wParty who are more conservative than the national political party as a wparty as a whole.

The Conservative Party fought a good ground war, winning more seats than the average national swing would suggest

The BBC's projected national share of the vote, which uses the results in local elections to estimate the parties» standing across the country, put Labour and the Conservatives neck - and - neck on 35 % apiece.

The by - election came in the middle of the John Major government and was won by Roseanna Cunningham of the Scottish National Party, but Alexander received enough votes to push the Conservative candidate into third place.

Kristian Dhal, the party leader, sent a message to «other moderate euroskeptic parties like the British Conservatives» to form an alliance to «steer back the EU» to focus on trade and energy and to be less interfering in national legislation.

The Liberal Democrat party was accused of once again betraying its principles last night, after it voted to back Conservative plans for secret courts to be used in cases involving national security issues.

The Conservative party has committed itself to spending 0.7 per cent of Gross National Income on development by 2013.

The NY - 27, represented by Rep. Kathy Hochul, is a top target for the national Republican Party, which sees the Democratic victory in a special election an exception, not a rule, for the deeply conservative upstate voters.

«There is no guarantee that it will be sufficient to ensure that the Conservative Party's manifesto pledge, that no school will lose out because of the National Funding Formula, will be met.

The party had polled consistently in the first four elections to the National Assembly, returning six representatives in the first three elections and five in the 2011 Election, thereby establishing itself as the fourth party in Wales behind Labour, the Conservatives and Plaid Cymru, but fell to just one seat in 2016.

At first, this does not appear to be a major change in the electoral fortunes of the parties but when we look at the revised national shares, the impact is more significant as this suggests that Labour and the Conservatives would be neck and neck in England & Wales rather than the 2.5 point lead the Conservatives actually had.

Anthony Steen, the Conservative MP for Totnes and chairman of the All - Party Parliamentary Group on human trafficking, saw his Private Member's Bill to establish a national anti-slavery day go through all its Commons stages yesterday.