Sentences with phrase «shortly after the general election»

Shortly after the general elections the first internal spats and purges were already visible.

Chancellor George Osborne established the OBR shortly after the general election, giving it the mandate to create an independent assessment of the economy before each Budget.

George Osborne announced the move to a national living wage in his summer budget last year, shortly after the general election.

The picture is less rosy for Brexit secretary David Davis who has dropped down to eight per cent, having been riding high on 24 per cent shortly after the general election.

In addition there was «a post-election dinner which included donors in Downing Street shortly after the general election.»

Not exact matches

Shortly after Carl Paladino handily won the Republican nomination in the race for governor Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos congratulated Paladino and welcomed him to the general election fight — and Senate Democrats were quick to pounce.

Moreover, ahead of the 2001 general election, it was widely reported that the Chancellor was planning to raise National Insurance contribution rates shortly after the election, in preference to raising Income Tax in order to fund increased NHS spending.

(1) Shortly after the 2005 General Election, Iain Duncan Smith and Danny Kruger wrote a pamphlet for the Centre for Social Justice entitled «Good for me, good for my neighbour».

Although most Labour Party members are now focused mainly on working for a Labour victory in the general election, there are some important internal party elections shortly after 7 May.

[68] Shortly after the 2015 General Election, Liberal Democrat leadership contender Norman Lamb conceded that Clegg's broken pledge on university tuition had cost the party dear.

That could be as late as Oct. 16, after the GOP primary and just shortly before the general election.

A brief introduction to me: I joined the Liberal Democrats in March 2010, campaigned as part of Bosworth PPC Michael Mullaney's team in the run - up to the 2010 General Election (where Michael gained one of the largest swings to the Lib Dems in the country), I joined the Social Liberal Forum shortly after that.

Shortly after basking in the success of her primary victory Tuesday night, Democratic candidate Colleen Deacon, a former staffer for Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D - NY), quickly shifted to the general election.

The ageing Attlee contested his final general election in 1955, which saw Labour lose ground, and he retired shortly after.

He spent two years at the agency before joining Gove's team shortly after the 2010 general election.

Recall Ayiri Emami, a billionaire and a Niger Delata Youth leader who is known to be a staunch supporter of the PDP led Goodluck Jonathan's administration defected to the All Progressive Congress, APC shortly after the immediate past president lost at the general elections.

Tim Smith began working for transport secretary Patrick McLoughlin shortly after the 2015 general election, having previously been a press adviser at Tory HQ.

More recently, Ed Miliband decided to grow a beard shortly after he failed to lead his party to victory in the 2015 general election and prepared for life on the backbenches.

And she revealed that Boris Johnson had apologised shortly after the 2015 general election for apparently reneging on a promise to help her on the campaign trail, telling her:

Shortly after his election in 2016, Trump agreed to pay $ 21 million to settle two class action lawsuits in California and $ 4 million to settle an action brought by New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.

Shortly after the 10 o'clock deadline on election day, broadcasters release a forecast based on the exit poll, which gives the first insight into how voters have actually voted in the general election.

Speculation about a Reed candidacy for Lieutenant Governor began building shortly after the 2004 general election.

In July 2006, shortly after the creation of a new Chippenham county constituency, Hames was selected as his party's first candidate for it, [4] and his success at the 2010 general election gave Wiltshire its first Liberal member of parliament in 86 years.

Although the letter to David Willetts was written following the general election, the DECC's response only arrived shortly after publication of the Muir Russell Report, the third report into the leaked documents and emails from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU):