Sentences with phrase «vote over the scandal»

A Labour stunt vote over the scandal looked doomed to failure tonight as new Home Secretary Sajid Javid accused the Opposition of going on a «fishing expedition».

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Greece's parliament voted early Thursday following a marathon 20 - hour session to investigate 10 senior politicians, including two former prime ministers, over allegations they were involved in a pharmaceutical bribery scandal.

Mr Bolton, who was only elected in September 2017, was sacked after party members voted by 867 to 500 to express their lack of faith in his ability to lead the party after the scandal over his lover.

Besides the fact that AV doesn't do much to stop this (in the safest seats, MPs tend to get big percentages of the vote anyway), it's another continuation of the idea that we can get reforms passed on the back of public anger towards MPs over the expenses scandal.

House votes to appoint former Labour minister who stood down from home affairs select committee over sex scandal

He had never made any compromises with either the Blair or Brown governments, had consistently voted against the Iraq War and welfare cuts and was untouched over the parliamentary expenses scandal.

Two years earlier, the State Senate had voted the businessman onto the government - controlled organization's board of directors, only eight months before a massive scandal broke out over the contract for video slot machines at the NYRA - run Aqueduct racetrack in Queens.

McGovern was selected as the Labour Party candidate for Wirral South in December 2009, following Ben Chapman's decision to stand down at the next election for family reasons following adverse publicity in The Daily Telegraph over the expenses scandal, and subsequently won the seat in the 2010 general election, defeating the Conservative candidate, Jeff Clarke, by 531 votes.

House Democrats insisted Sunday that Rep. Anthony Weiner must resign — not just take a leave of absence to undergo psychological treatment — as they prepare to return to Washington contemplating a possible vote to expel him from the party caucus due to the scandal over his sexually - charged online messages.

Holtzman, best known for serving on the House committee that voted to impeach President Richard Nixon over the Watergate scandal, had flirted for months with running again for statewide office.

Meanwhile, MPs are gearing up for a crunch Commons vote this afternoon over a Labour demand for the Government to reveal years of paperwork around the scandal.

The prime minister has committed «seven mortal sins» that have degraded politics, Sir Alistair continued, including; the cash for honours scandal, his alleged disregard for cabinet government, the «shocking political interferenace» in the fraud investigation of BAE's arms deal in Saudi Arabia, his dismissal of concerns over postal voting, the handling of investigations in ministerial disconduct, an «undue reliance on spin», and «politicising» the civil service.

Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer won the September 10, 2013 Democratic primary with 52 % of the vote, defeating former New York State Governor, Eliot Spitzer, who had been forced to resign as governor over various scandals.

Apparently believing he could use the suddenly - breaking «scandal» over the «suppression» of the Carlin report to stop Waxman - Markey from coming to a House vote with his last - minute «sky - is - falling» antics, which approach being comical, Barton is recorded in short You Tube videos making a royal fool / arse / idiot of himself.

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The scandal, which revealed that a UK - based digital analytics firm had harvested data from more than 50 million Facebook users and then weaponised that data to influence people's opinions and political votes via possibly unethical marketing campaigns on social media, took the world by storm over the weekend.

Before the firestorm over Cambridge Analytica's siphoning of information from millions of Facebook accounts — and even before the 2016 U.S. presidential election and Brexit vote swept the company into a series of scandals — one constant has been Facebook's inept response to crises.

The Cambridge Analytica scandal is now raising questions over the tactics used to try to influence voters in the Brexit vote.