Sentences with phrase «than the conservative party»

The New Democratic Party and the Liberals, therefore, would do no better at boosting economic growth than the Conservative Party is right now.
A rather young delegate, who might have fitted in better at an X Factor audition than the Conservative party conference, moaned during the queue for Cameron's final speech that he was «bored» by this year's conference.
Well if they aren't acquainted yet, they should look no further than this guy, he is probably more conservative than the conservative party leaders, Paladino and New Yorkers for Conitutional Freedoms combined.
On November 2012, the Working Families Party New York nominee for U.S. Senate (who was also the Democratic nominee) received more votes on the Working Families line than the Conservative Party nominee for the same office (the Conservative nominee was also the Republican nominee).
He has been an essential attraction for those who have switched to the Tories since 2010, and is more attractive than the Conservative Party as a whole to those who do not yet vote Tory but may one day do so.
I have no doubt that the Conservative Party will make major gains in votes and seats in the next 10 years that will build to their return to power ultimately, but they are a long way off actually winning a majority and it has to be said that a Hung Parliament now looks more improbable than at any time since 2001, demographic factors are working against the Conservative Party as well - Labour seats mostly are held with far lower turnouts which is partly why Labour can get fewer votes than the Conservatives and end up with an overall majority and far more seats than the Conservative Party.
On one hand, public opinion polls show Labour and its policies have greater public support than the Conservative Party.
Charles Moore on why ConservativeHome conferences are better than Conservative Party Conferences
«OTHER than the Conservative Party, which of the following political parties in Britain is CLOSEST to your views?»
Boris Johnson is doing slightly better than the Conservative party, but still has only a narrow two point lead over Ken Livingstone in first preference votes.
The Heathrow protesters» running battles with the police might give the impression that the protest was radical, and its aims at odds with the establishment, but Climate Camp's ultimate goal of 90 per cent reductions in UK CO2 emissions by 2050 is only 10 per cent more than the Conservative party has pledged.
No sooner had Britain's fraud fighting unit been given a shiny new weapon, deferred prosecution agreements (DPAs), than the Conservative Party announces that it will shut the unit down if it wins the general election.

Not exact matches

The Conservatives have more money than the other parties, for a variety of reasons, so longer is better for them.
That will be an advantage for the Conservatives, who sit atop a larger war chest than the other parties, as Alice Funke recently noted in Maclean's:
She is more simpatico with Trudeau's Liberals than any provincial or federal Conservative party is, but the federal Liberals have governed more by public - mood windsock than ideological purity.
A longtime Conservative, Steiner entertained the author more than two decades ago when Archer was deputy chairman of the U.K. Conservative Party.
They believe Stephen Harper's Conservatives will perform better than any other party on the issues that are most important to them.
The U.K.'s challenges are somewhat different from Canada's: as a result of the Conservative Party's austerity campaign, the U.K.'s economy has suffered more than Canada's, which has taken more of a Keynesian approach; and the City, as London's financial hub is known, has had a reputation for a much looser approach to regulation than that found in either Canada or the U.S. Tal says the U.K.'s finance sector has to change and he expects Carney will attempt to move it in the direction of greater regulation.
Merkel was weakened after a September election as voters angry with her decision in 2015 to open Germany's borders to more than a million asylum seekers punished her conservatives by voting for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) far - right party.
These changes have caused some of the most radical members of her party to criticise her choices, most notably causing a row between her and her niece, Marion - Maréchal Le Pen, a member of Parliament for the National Front, who is even more conservative than her aunt.
What began as a small, focused Enbridge campaign with northern First Nations grew into a political juggernaut that arguably contributed to the Harper government's 2015 defeat, after the pro-tanker Conservative party lost more votes in B.C. than in the rest of the country combined.
And oh did we ever aspire: the tax cuts were bigger and tastier than we could have imagined; the torch - carrying to further enrich US entertainment companies made us laugh and cry; the barbs thrown at Dalton (the boy can't take a joke); the raid on Conservative Party headquarters.
This would show that the Conservative government could be trusted to manage the fiscal affairs of the government better than any other political party.
Although the Conservatives have made fewer announcements than the other parties since the election call, their policy platform really began last October.
With less than four months until the general election, Ontario's Progressive Conservative party is leaderless, and would - be-leaders have already abandoned at least some of the commitments in the party's election campaign platform.
The more red meat the Conservatives dish out to their base, the more keeping their party out of power next year stands to become a bigger ballot box priority for voters than punishing Trudeau for whatever disappointment he may have inspired.
By all indications, the Conservative party is about to once again go on a federal campaign with little more than a fig leaf in lieu of a serious climate change mitigation strategy.
«So within the spectrum of the Conservative Party, I think that James Moore is considered generally more friend than foe.»
With the race for the Conservative Party nomination in Calgary - Signal Hill in less than 10 days, the Rob Anders campaign has broadcast a new robocall praising the incumbent MP for decreasing the federal Goods and Services Tax.
With the next federal election less than one year away, the Conservative Party of Canada is close to nominating a full slate of candidates in Alberta's 34 newly redrawn ridings.
In my opinion, Edmonton - Centre MLA Laurie Blakeman was the only candidate who left the impression that she would define the Liberal Party as more than just a softer version of the Progressive Conservatives.
But nobody has been more effective or compelling in bringing about the creation of the United Conservative Party than its chief rallier: NDP Premier Rachel Notley, whose interloping, democratically endorsed mandate can not, in the eyes of many Albertans, end soon enough.
Tory platform says no Brexit deal better than bad one UK prime minister Theresa May unveiled the Conservative Party manifesto on Thursday, setting the stage for the general election on 8 June.
Conservative Party of Canada Leader Andrew Scheer called on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to repay taxpayers more than $ 200,000 he used to fund his much - publicized and criticized vacation.
It is likely that the marauding band of conservatives were coveting the party's brand name rather than its moderate - conservative platform.
If Mr Jean hopes to make the Wildrose party the party of choice for all conservatives, including progressive conservatives, he'll have to do better than float a muddled vision that pussy foots around social issues.
IMHO, there tends to be little electoral overlap between the provincial and federal levels, at least in this province, and in fact the vote splits between right, left and centre are quite different with one unified Conservative party (more aligned with Wildrose than with Alberta PC), and a not - quite - as - moribund Liberal party in play.
As Mr. Prentice tries to scare conservatives into re-electing his party to a 13th term in government, one poll conducted by ThinkHQ shows most Albertans surveyed said they were more afraid of a re-elected PC government than a Wildrose or NDP government.
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Stelmach's leadership win came as a surprise considering his campaign for the PC leadership was less prominent than that of party insider Jim Dinning and the socially conservative Ted Morton.
Josh Barro wrote that «Social conservatives are more likely to signal openness to pro-middle class economic policies than the «hardheaded business types» who fund the party.: I think there is some truth to that, and I think that Barro's next observation is interesting and....
Josh Barro wrote that «Social conservatives are more likely to signal openness to pro-middle class economic policies than the «hardheaded business types» who fund the party.: I think there is some truth to that, and I think that Barro's next observation is interesting and also has some truth:
Speaking after the documentary Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, the peer and former chairman of the Conservative Party, said British Muslims had made more progress in changing their attitudes on various social issues since they arrived in Britain in the 1950s than the Church of England and the Conservative Party had over the same period.
Both conservatives and progressives ought to understand that the reality which is lived in the Church in love and humility is better than a possibility for which both parties rightly fight, so that one thing may become reality which will then be the truly Christian thing for both.
In fact, how many Muslims believe in any Woman's Right, Actually the Conservative White Christian Republican Tea Party is TEN TIMES MORE MUSLIM THAN OBAMA BECAUSE THEY BELIEVE THE SAME THING ABOUT WOMEN»S RIGHT TO CHOSE OR LEAD!
At this moment, the Republican party, and the conservative cause with it, has a better than even chance of claiming an across the board supremacy in next November's election.
Organized around the political careers of Robert Taft, Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, and Newt Gingrich, the story opts to explain how conservatives took over the Republican party rather than explain why.
There is a chasm that separates right - leaning voters (a group that is larger than the conservative «base») and the Republican Party's establishment.
Tea Party supporters appear to be better educated, wealthier, and more likely to call themselves conservative than the general population.
The elections were expected to be much closer, but Cameron's Conservative Party actually had a stronger showing than they did in 2010, winning an effective majority in the Parliament.
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