Sentences with phrase «visiting local constituency»

He insisted that Labour would fight May's «extreme Brexit» and said he had been visiting local constituency Labour parties across the country and speaking to thousands of members and supporters, «so I know how strongly people feel about Brexit».

I visited the local constituency Conservative Association in my capacity as deputy chairman.

Not exact matches

Mr Akufo - Addo said in reference to Sports Minister Nii Lantey Vanderpuye and Local Government Minister Collins Dauda, who, the NPP has accused of instigating their followers to visit violence on NPP members in Odododiodoo and Asutifi South constituencies, respectively, where the two ministers are MPs.

They go to a public place in their neighbourhood, and for most of them, especially in inner city constituencies, voting may be their only cause to visit their local school or community centre.

Will visits by both David Cameron and Nick Clegg still continue to have a positive effect at the local level, or will they find, as Gordon Brown did in 2010, that no matter how carefully the incumbent leader (and his deputy) chooses the constituencies to visit, they do not make an impact?

These visits do not increase constituency turnout, but visits by David Cameron and Nick Clegg in 2010 significantly boosted their respective local party vote shares.

With Ed Miliband as the leader of the opposition party, the adoption of an expansionist visit strategy has the potential to boost Labour's local vote share — a factor that may be key in marginal constituencies.

It certainly didn't stop Farage contesting the Buckingham constituency in 2010, with a performance more memorable for his strategy of visiting every pub there and for his polling day plane crash than for its electoral outcome (third behind commons speaker John Bercow and a local independent candidate).

Alia Middleton examines the evidence from 2010 and finds that visits made to constituencies by party leaders can have an impact on local results.

Nigel Farage, Ukip's leader, made three trips to the constituency during the four - week campaign, downing pints in local pubs, climbing aboard a tank and making disparaging remarks about Miliband, who visited the seat twice.

They claim 13 Labour candidates received visits from Harriet Harman's «pink bus» but did not declare this in their local returns, with the cost instead included in the national return; that the Lib Dems used an election battlebus to transport activists to constituencies which was not included in the candidates» returns; and that the SNP leader, Nicola Sturgeon, «used a helicopter to campaign for SNP candidates in 12 target constituencies — at a cost of # 35,000».

«MPs in constituencies visited by the battlebus would have no reason to consider whether it should be included in their local return; they were directed that the bus would be visiting as part of [Conservative HQ] national spending,» she said.