Sentences with phrase «party divide»

«The poll tax was defeated when the decent majority said that it offended the deep sense of fairness that we share in this country across party divides,» he said.

The conservative House Freedom Caucus is supporting a plan aimed at bridging the internal Republican Party divide between moderates and conservatives on health care reform.

The biggest party divide in British politics is not within the Conservatives.

«It would be a great tragedy if we had our two major political parties divide on what we would call a conservative - liberal line.

With no post Brexit plan evident, and political parties divided within themselves, Parliamentarians must re-exert their authority.

A Labour coalition that brings together the left, the Blairite centre - right and the union movement is a powerful alliance; one that will potentially redraw the internal party dividing lines on immigration, regardless of what Ed Miliband might or might not say.

Gordon Brown today called for a new kind of politics based on consensus rather than «sterile party divides».

It seems to me that too few have grasped how the fundamentals of British politics are changing — how public loyalty to the main parties is in decline, how issues are now more important than old tribal allegiances and how the rise of new concerns such as nationalism and immigration cut across old party divides.

Cuomo's manipulation of the narrow party divide in the State Senate has been masterful.

Forget party divides — New York's Congressional delegation is split among the rich and poor.

Is the Labour Party divided?

Food & Water Watch applauds Representatives Young, DeFazio, Jones, Polis, Stark, and Wu along with Senators Begich, Murkowski and Murray for overcoming party divides to join together in protecting U.S. consumers from this largely untested product.

A Minnesota lawyer and mediator has launched a website that aims to help divorcing parties divide their marital property, without the need for a lawyer.

In this political climate, Marsolier's photographs reach across party divides.

How do you close ranks in a political party this divided... into one candidate's campaign platform.»

In view of President Mahama's accusation, the acting General Secretary for the NPP, John Boadu in an interview quizzed «Now, I want to know: when Konadu Agyemang Rawlings was leaving his party, was his party divided?

How can the two groups work together, across the party divide, to advance the great cause that is (egalitarian) liberalism?

Miliband's supporters claim that one of his achievements has been to heal the divisions of the Blair / Brown years, but Labour in 2010 wasn't a party divided by ideology, but by ego and personality.

He also described Johnson as «a very engaging and charming court jester» and warned: «If Boris has the laudable ambition to become Prime Minister, he will find if he achieves that he will not have the loyalty of the party he divided.»

As the search for a new leader begins, many are worried that the process of electing Miliband's successor will mean the party divides rather than unites in the short term in its search for answers, between left and right, Blairites and Brownites, new and old.

Predictably, each side of Britain's crumbling two - party divide has attempted to paint the results as worse for the other.

The exit of Peter Mandelson deprived the PM of his closest ally in this venture: few others around the Cabinet table share Mr Blair's appetite for friendship across the party divide.

Following the interview the former shadow work and pensions secretary tweeted saying Mr Corbyn had been non-committal when asked whether he was prepared to see the party divide into separate entities.

The party needs to work with liberals and social democrats across the party divide to restate its position as a voice of the centre - left, and this is best achieved if we clearly communicate how our vision of a fairer, greener Britain differs from both Tory and Labour parties» current stance.

The top two primary vote - getters across parties go to a runoff election in that state, and thus a party divided can be shut out of the general election, as Democrats were in a southern California congressional race in 2012.

But there is no need for a party divide on such issues.

With the party divided between social and economic liberals, debates on nuclear power, the economy, tuition fees, green policy and taxation are unlikely to yield unanimous responses, resulting in internal division which may hinder the party's ability to project a clear and consistent message in the run up to 2015.

He knows full well that a defeat of this kind will involve a loss of prestige and make him look weak and his party divided.

Talk to backbench MPs across the party divide and a common theme emerges: a pessimism shared across the red and blue tribes that their party will secure a majority government at the next General Election.

A party divided is weak.

Governor: The are contested primaries on both sides of the party divide.

Mr Brown says he decided to accept his colleague's assurances and clear the way for Mr Blair as he was «unwilling to see the party divided in a way that would endanger the prospects for reform».

A marital settlement agreement is a written contract that can address how the parties divide property, pay marital debts, specify the end date of the union to prevent other debts from being jointly incurred, and may include child custody arrangements.

The significance is that separate property stays with the party who owns it whereas community property is to be equitably divided between the parties

If the parties divide their property by agreement, the judge will review the agreement.