Sentences with phrase «of hustings»

Gaby Hinsliff challenged the candidates to give a «one line» ideology for this final question of the hustings event.»

«They will undertake a gruelling round of hustings over the summer.

Despite the dozens of hustings, debates and interviews, none of the five candidates has yet been able to offer a convincing answer to that basic but all - important question: what do you stand for?»

As ballot papers go out for the Labour leadership election and after weeks of hustings, does it feel as though these are the people the party is talking about or talking to?

Meanwhile, after recently pulling out of a hustings event, is Sol Campbell struggling to get excited about the prospect of running London?

Well, just a handful of hustings in and already some of the most ardent Labour supporters have walked out.

There was to be a series of hustings over the summer.

Labour's tournament felt like a game of Snap when the four players at the table would slap down policies at an endless round of hustings, but now it's high - stakes Pontoon time.

Otherwise we are in danger of having a series of hustings in which the candidates all share similar limited horizons and we finish up with a series of non-debates where we are expected judge who is likely to be the best celebrity.

One of the most agonising moments of the hustings (apart from Smith getting booed for calling out anti-Semitism) was the section on the advancement of women.

Not exact matches

In 1970, in what he later described as a fit of «vocational absentmindedness,» he ran for Congress, but his true vocation was the pulpit and the press, not the hustings.

After retiring from football, former Druids and Wales international goalkeeper Harry Adams became a member of the National Conservative League's Cyclist Corps, an organisation that help organise hustings and polling stations at elections until the 1906 General Election in the United Kingdom.

One of the food depository «s original agencies was Waukegan - based Lake County Community Action Project, 106 Sheridan Rd. Having opened the facility on Oct. 7, 1965, the community action project was out in the hustings feeding the hungry about 14 years before the food depository assumed the business of food distribution to the Chicago area «s service centers.

But he was taken aback at the GMB hustings event when all of the candidates were asked whether they supported the government's plan to lower the annual welfare cap to # 23,000.

From good old - fashioned hustings brought to life by Dickens and Trollope to the TV debate and reality shows of today.

However, there was little sign of unity among their supporters this afternoon as they took part in their first leadership hustings.

As the pair went head - to - head in hustings at Gateshead, the Pontypridd MP launched a series of vehement attacks on the Labour leader.

In a lively hustings, the Potypridd MP went to war over Europe, the «futility» of Corbyn's leadership, his inability to win key seats... and T - shirts.

As a method of finding answers to the calamity of May 7, the current series of leadership hustings are simply not fit for purpose.

Jacobs told me Cuomo will soon hit the hustings with some of the Senate Democrats» candidates in key districts and «doesn't look at this as a race for him alone.»

Despite the fact that he has been on the hustings for about nine months now, Maragos is unknown to 78 percent of New Yorkers.

The pair spoke at a special hustings event in a packed committee room in the Palace of Westminster.

The candidates from the three main parties took part in a hustings debate in front of a healthy crowd at Uppermill Civic Hall yesterday.

In a video showing highlights of the Sheffield City Region metro mayor hustings event, candidates set out their plans to drive growth in the city region.

As the campaign for the election gains momentum, Centre for Cities and the Sheffield City Region Chambers of Commerce are delighted to be hosting a hustings where candidates will set out their plans to drive growth in the city region.

Saddleworth is the well - off half of this constituency and those attending the hustings should have been flocking to the Lib Dems in their droves.

«But how I fear that we may even yet get to the next General Election without any of them on the hustings.»

At last night's hustings, the Yorkshire MP took heart from the fortunes of the Doncaster Rovers, who beat David Cameron's football team, Aston Villa, in the Carling Cup.

The most popular questions that emerge from the various group sessions would then be put up for debate as a live hustings by local representatives of the presidential candidates» parties in front of all the attendees.

The shadow home secretary told reporters ahead of the last of 11 hustings between him and rival David Cameron: «Don't write me off yet.»

Equally, instead of party members taking part in the local hustings the campaigns could use their members to represent their sides of the argument.

Corbyn made the comments at a hustings hosted by the Guardian at which the candidates also clashed on the economic record of the Blair and Brown era, and Labour's approach to Europe.

As the campaign for the election gains momentum, Centre for Cities and the Liverpool and Sefton Chamber of Commerce are organising a hustings for candidates to set out their plans to drive growth in the city - region.

But the lack of visibility on the hustings for Democratic candidates is making for no shortage of concern for Cuomo's liberal critics.

The meeting in Newport last night was the tenth of 11 hustings taking part across the country, and came less than a week before ballots close next Monday.

During a Richmond Chamber of Commerce hustings with his opponent, Liberal Democrat MP Susan Kramer, Mr Goldsmith said: «There are various things I have said in this campaign with absolute certainty.

In fourth place is our review of this week's first televised hustings for the Labour leadership contest.

A hustings for the benefit of MPs will take place in a room at the Commons at 1 pm on Monday, and MPs will be able to nominate up until 5 pm on Wednesday.

The Labour leader sat in the aisle of the London to Newcastle service on 11 August as he made his way to a leadership hustings event with Owen Smith.

Mr Corbyn and Mr Smith will go head - to - head in their first hustings of the leadership campaign next week, The result of the election will be announced on 24 September.

A new political landscape Back on the hustings, the Conservatives today accused Nick Clegg of trying to «hold the country to ransom» as they unveiled a mock election broadcast from the «Hung Parliament party» warning it would lead to financial catastrophe.

Hamilton described the leaking of the letter as a dirty trick to deliberately destabilise the hustings, saying some of the queries it contained had already been answered.

At the end of the first hustings, an apparent Respect supporter who had heckled from the side - lines throughout asked Naz Shah a question as she was leaving for the night:

Given the extensive debates and candidates» hustings, GMB members will cast their votes for a candidate of their choice for leader in the normal way.»

The low - key campaign started to revive slightly only over the past couple of weeks, when the candidates participated in hustings events targeted to the business community and the wider public.

Following hustings, the Labour party will convene a special conference to formally declare the result of the leadership contest.

This will be followed by six weeks of campaigning, the final three of which will see hustings take place across the country.

Mr Brown is concerned the candidates» comments at hustings have reinforced Conservative claims of a lurch to the left.

Andy Burnham was jeered at a GMB hustings when he refused to say outright whether he was opposed to an annual benefits cap of # 23,000.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is hitting the hustings for his pre-State of the State / budget address road show.