Sentences with phrase «than liberal leader»

Polls have suggested that Canadians have stronger confidence in Conservative leader Stephen Harper than Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion.

Not exact matches

Organizers estimated that more than 10,000 people packed Boston's Copley Square to hear Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, a vocal critic of Trump and a leader of the Democratic Party's liberal wing, and other speakers.

Liberal House leader Dominic LeBlanc said the ads prove Tories are more focused on Trudeau than the concerns of Canadians.

Not because the BC Liberals won — political opponents have to accept that some times the other team had a superior campaign than your own, more ideas, a more effective leader or just did a better job.

The issue figures to feature prominently in the next federal election, with Liberal Leader Stà © phane Dion arguing the benefits of a carbon tax, while NDP Leader Jack Layton makes the case that cap - and - trade would do a better job of putting the costs on big polluters rather than on low - income families.

Liberal leader puts a fresh face on a troubled party that has ruled Ontario for more than a decade

«As the leader of the Liberal Party noted, it was in fact this party, this government, that established the parliamentary budget office,» the Prime Minister congratulated himself, «so this government is more than familiar with its intention in terms of the mandate it set up.»

Like a dog with a bone, Liberal Leader Dr. David Swann (Calgary - Mountain View) has grabbed onto the issue of opioid addiction and, for more than a year, has been hounding the gov» t to declare a stat...

Like a dog with a bone, Liberal Leader Dr. David Swann (Calgary - Mountain View) has grabbed onto the issue of opioid addiction and, for more than a year, has been hounding the govâ $ ™ t to declare a stat...

Liberal Leader David Khan says, «There are more than 63,000 extra EMS calls over the past 5 years and EMS is stretched to the limits to handle the needs of over 500,000 new Albertans.»

Less than two months later, Tim Farron resigned as leader of the Liberal Democrats, saying he felt «torn» between his faith and job; he also admitted failings in his handling of the interest in him.

... Delight in smooth - sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts, desire for popularity and electoral success irrespective of the vital interests of the State, genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation, obvious lack of intellectual vigour in both leaders of the British Coalition Government, marked ignorance of Europe and aversion from its problems in Mr. Baldwin, the strong and violent pacifism which at this time dominated the Labour - Socialist Party, the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart from reality, the failure and worse than failure of Mr. Lloyd George, the erstwhile great war - time leader, to address himself to the continuity of his work, the whole supported by overwhelming majorities in both Houses of Parliament: all these constituted a picture of British fatuity and fecklessness which, though devoid of guile, was not devoid of guilt, and, though free from wickedness or evil design, played a definite part in the unleashing upon the world of horrors and miseries which, even so far as they have unfolded, are already beyond comparison in human experience.

Former Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno deemed Giuliani «Judas» for turning his back on the party's nominee, little - known state Sen. George Pataki, who ended up defeating Mario Cuomo in what was widely attributed more to voters» rejection of the liberal incumbent than their desire to see a GOP legislator from Peekskill in the executive mansion.

If we look at the 2010 general election results, we can see that 116 MPs (from 649 excluding the speaker) got a higher vote share than the average Conservative leader, versus 48 for the Labour leader and 277 for the Liberal Democrat leader.

Well, based on the assumption that a vote is cast in anticipation that the recipient of the vote is going to win, it seems to me that a vote cast for David Cameron or whoever is the leader of the Labour Party at the time of the election is far more likely to see a winner than any vote for the Liberal Democrats will do.

The first was that her personal net satisfaction ratings have nosedived such that she is not only less popular than her controversial UK counterpart, Jeremy Corbyn, but also has displaced the Liberal Democrat leader, Willie Rennie, as the least popular of the main Scottish party leaders.

The Labour Party was defeated heavily in the 1983 general election, winning only 27.6 % of the vote, its lowest share since 1918, and receiving only half a million votes more than the SDP - Liberal Alliance who leader Michael Foot condemned for «siphoning» Labour support and enabling the Conservatives to greatly increase their majority of parliamentary seats.

Unlike David Cameron and Gordon Brown, with whom it's possible to refer, en passant, to Bullingdon Club shenanigans, or a rugby injury, or a manse, and for nearly everyone to know what that might mean, all most people knew about Clegg (if they could name the leader of the Liberal Democrats at all) was perhaps that he had some European connections, though they weren't sure what, and maybe that he once told Piers Morgan he'd had 30 lovers (in fact, asked by Morgan whether he had slept with 30 women, Clegg replied: «It's a lot less than that» — not that that got in the way of a good story.)

The Liberals» future leader, Jeremy Thorpe, mocked Macmillan by observing: «Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his life.»

In an e-mail to supporters entitled «60 - Point Lead is Not Enough,» Hoffman mentions Scozzafava no fewer than six times, accusing local GOP leaders of being on track to «annoint a liberal Republican» who is closer in ideology to his erstwhile opponent than the party's conservative base can tolerate.

Sir Menzies Campbell is crowned Liberal Democrat leader, vowing to be more than a «safe pair of hands».

Liberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable argues in the wake of the Windrush scandal that the electorate is more colour - blind than Westminster gives it credit for.

On 8 May, three party leaders announced their resignations within an hour of each other: [199] Ed Miliband (Labour) and Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrat) resigned due to their parties» worse - than - expected results in the election, although both had been re-elected to their seats in Parliament.

Among other results, Lord Ashcroft's polls suggested that the growth in SNP support would translate into more than 50 seats; [124] that there was little overall pattern in Labour and Conservative Party marginals; [125] that the Green Party MP Caroline Lucas would retain her seat; [126] that both Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg and UKIP leader Nigel Farage would face very close races to be elected in their own constituencies; [127] and that Liberal Democrat MPs would enjoy an incumbency effect that would lose fewer MPs than their national polling implied.

Carswell also highlighted a more liberal tone than Ukip's leader, Nigel Farage, saying no one was seriously suggesting screening immigrants for HIV.

We were ensuring that party communications were rather more effective than they were in the hung Parliament of 1974, when Edward Heath's office tried to contact Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe on Election night, only to be told: «He's not available right now.

The Liberal Democrat MP and former party leader, who sits on the Global Commission on Drugs Policy, called for sweeping changes that would take the control of cannabis out of the hands of criminals, and also ensure that the users of harder drugs receive health treatment rather than jail sentences.

Mr. Peralta's defection does more than siphon power from the Democratic conference; it puts the independent group in position to expand its sphere of influence, pulling Republicans toward the political middle and offering John J. Flanagan, the Senate's Republican leader, an unbreachable bulwark against liberal policies favored by the Democrats who dominate the State Assembly.

When he took over the leadership of the Liberal Democrats in December 2007 he was the fourth leader in less than three years.

Paddy Ashdown last night stunned Liberal Democrats when he announced that he will resign as party leader after this spring's crucial local and Euro - elections - just as he gets closer to the reins of power than any predecessor since Lloyd George.

Not only have the Liberal Democrats fallen back in the latest ComRes survey for The Independent but Nick Clegg has a lower approval rating than Ming Campbell when he was ousted as the party leader six months ago.

The prime minister was also criticised by the former Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell, who suggested Cameron could mollify Pakistan by pledging more money to the relief effort after floods that have killed more than 1,000 people.

While not every state and local union leader falls into this category, an overwhelming majority do, despite an internal poll by the National Education Association which found that its rank - and - file is slightly more conservative (50 percent) than liberal (43 percent) in political philosophy.

Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron has said the compulsory academy plan is «worse than misguided - it is downright harmful.

Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron sent a message to the teachers» conference saying the compulsory academy plan is «worse than misguided - it is downright harmful.

Ontario's Liberal Premier, Dalton McGuinty, might want to reflect on the British experience as he ponders NDP Leader Andrea Horwath's offer to swap New Democrat votes for a higher marginal tax rate for Ontarians with taxable incomes greater than $ 500,000.

Speaking ahead of Starmer's speech, Liberal Democrat Leader Tim Farron said Labour's Brexit policy had «more holes than a colander».