Sentences with phrase «promise from her party leader»

There was a promise from her party leader that teachers would be freed from being tied in knots by «a string of Whitehall diktats, meaningless targets and paperwork».

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«Hard working families» would benefit from an SNP - led Scotland, the party's deputy leader Nicola Sturgeon promised today.

Friends of Dugdale have since pointed out that Rowley, when seeking election as the Scottish Party's deputy leader last year, promised that if he won he would not accept a protected place at the top of one of the lists from which a 56 of Holyrood's 129 MSPs are elected under a system of proportional representation only to go back on his word as soon as he won that particular race.

People close to the party say its leaders hoped to use the endorsement as leverage to extract a promise from Cuomo — for instance, a major change to campaign finance law that could tilt the balance away from wealthy individuals and businesses.

Newly - former state Senate candidate Dan Padernacht insists he came to the decision to drop his primary challenge to Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. and endorse Gustavo Rivera on his own and received no promises in return from party leaders.

Cuomo, under pressure from party leaders, recorded a video promising that he'd work to expel Republicans from co leadership of the State Senate, and work to reinstall Democrats instead.

Following the election, the Liberal Democrat Leader in the Lords, Lord Wallace, argued that the convention which constrains the Lords from voting down the governing party's manifesto promises (the Salisbury convention — established following Labour's landslide victory in 1945, when the party had just 16 peers) was out of date.

Since then, Jim Murphy, Labour's new Scottish leader, has fought pugnaciously to revive the party's fortunes, with bold new policies (such as promising to hire 1,000 more nurses from the proceeds of the UK - wide Mansion tax, which very few Scots will pay).

Former Democratic Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith of Queens was convicted last month for conspiring to funnel $ 500,000 from a transportation account to a developer, who promised to bribe Republican Party officials to deliver Smith the GOP line for mayor in 2013.

Following the very real, visceral anger from the public over MPs expenses, all party leaders delivered messages to their electorate promising to restore their trust.

W.F.P. leaders have tried to remind voters in recent weeks to cast their ballots for the third party, which has received scant attention from Cuomo since he won the party's endorsement in May by promising, among other things, to campaign for Democratic control in the State Senate.

«Leaders at all levels and from both parties are focused on raising graduation rates,» said John Gomperts, president and CEO of America's Promise Alliance and a leader of the GradNation campaign.

The result has triggered outrage from the 48 % of the population who voted to remain, with calls for a second referendum, suggestions that the House of Commons could ignore the result, and a promise by the leader of the Liberal Democrats that the party would run on a platform to remain within the Union in any future general election.