Sentences with phrase «week after the general election»

The Lib Dem leader resigned from his position less than a week after the general elections citing that he was «torn between living as a faithful Christian and serving as a political leader».

Marked «sensitive» and sent to the work and pensions secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, two weeks after the general election, the civil service memo forecasts that «around 40,000 more... children might in the absence of any behaviour change, find themselves in poverty as a result of reducing the cap to # 23,000».

On Saturday 15 May, barely a week after the general election and just five days after David Cameron walked in to 10 Downing Street, Ed Miliband used an address to the Fabian Society to confirm growing speculation that he was planning to stand for the Labour leadership.

The contest ended over a week after the general election took place.

That meant that, under Labour plans, it was due to go back down to # 8.50 per week after the general election.

It was two weeks after the general election and I had already been forced to resign over an expenses claim.

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Portugal's minority center - right government collapsed this week after the three leftist parties that won the majority of seats in September month's general election refused to support its continuation of bailout - dictated austerity policies.

Cambridge Analytica has filed insolvency proceedings just weeks after it was embroiled at the center of a political scandal involving Facebook's data protection policies, the 2016 US general election of President Trump and the ethics of online advertising.

Outgoing Liberal Democrat leader has revealed he decided to quit his position two weeks into the 2017 General Election campaign after repeatedly facing questions...

After his views on the issue drew renewed attention from journalists in the weeks prior to the 2017 General Election, Tim Farron told the BBC he did not believe gay sex was a sin.

Did we witness, only weeks away from the General Election, one of the greatest betrayals of the Catholic tradition by the English hierarchy, not merely in this century (of which after all there hasn't been much yet) but in the history of the Church?

Outgoing Liberal Democrat leader has revealed he decided to quit his position two weeks into the 2017 General Election campaign after repeatedly facing questions over whether he believed gay sex was a sin.

MPs» pay rises are in peril this week, as Labour leader Ed Miliband reportedly mulls ruling out anything more than a one per cent pay rise after the next general election.

Rep. Charlie Rangel's ethics trial is scheduled to start almost two weeks after the Nov. 2 general election.

Only weeks after the last general election, a Mail on Sunday poll showed that 63 % of people in the UK supported scrapping Trident to reduce the deficit.

After the shock of last week's poll suggesting that Labour might lose their first general election in Wales since 1918, what message emerges from the local elections about the prospects for June 8th?

As with Dinapoli, the governor did his best to foul up the attorney general's election, informally backing a primary opponent and then declining to endorse his ticket - mate in the general election until more than a week after the primary.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Preet for New York attorney general is a political action committee filed with the Federal Election Committee last week, just days after Eric Schneiderman resigned as New York's top law enforcement officer.

Mr Farron quit last week, within days of the General Election, after facing scrutiny over his Christian views.

The governor reiterated his threat to drag the Legislature back to the Capitol before the November general election — most likely in October, which is after the Sept. 14 primary — in hopes of getting the Assembly to take up the property tax cap bill passed with bipartisan support this week by the Senate (eight Democrats voted «no»).

Cameron and Clegg moved to shore up the coalition after a bumpy week in which Graham Brady, the chairman of the Conservative 1922 committee, suggested it could end before the next general election.

Publisher biteback Biteback said the book would cover the battle for Brexit, from the «massing of the UKIP foot soldiers after the general election and the squabbling of the various Leave groups, to the arrival of the cabinet cavalry after Cameron's Brussels deal and the dramatic final weeks fought on battle buses and in TV studios».

A week after Labour's catastrophic general election defeat, Jon Cruddas is holding nothing back.

The Progress conference at Congress House in central London came only two weeks after Labour had lost the general election.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions is scheduled to appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee less than one week after James Comey told the committee he could not discuss openly certain information about Sessions» recusal from the investigation into Russia's election meddling last year.

A new Constituency Commission report on election boundaries (for general and European elections) is likely to be published in the coming weeks after the publication of final / definitive population statistics for Census 2011 by the Central Statistics Office today.

The Prime Minister called for an early general election on Tuesday just weeks after starting the formal process of Britain leaving the EU, causing exasperation amongst some EU leaders.

Pizzo filed for a rematch a few weeks after the 2016 general election, but as a placeholder for the paperwork, as he assessed the prospect.

• This clarification was added on 27 August 2014: An article examining whether Lord Rennard's expertise as a party strategist for the Liberal Democrats will be called upon in the forthcoming general election stated that «Rennard was readmitted to the party this week after final disciplinary proceedings relating to four women's claims of sexually inappropriate conduct were dropped».

Hashimu arrived in Abuja on April 20 to celebrate the president's victory in the 2015 general elections after trekking three weeks from Lagos, covering over 700 kilometres.

Among the proposals are that the generous resettlement grants for MPs who voluntarily step down will come to an end from the general election after next, with MPs receiving just eight weeks» pay instead.

Earlier this week Conservative leader David Cameron called for a general election after Mr Blair steps down, while Liberal Democrat leader Menzies Campbell said his party was preparing for one as early as 2007.

Fletcher's resignation comes just a week after Jon Trickett was dumped as Labour's general election co-ordinator, and replaced by Andrew Gwynne and Ian Lavery.

The endorsement comes just two weeks after TP published exclusive footage of Brand saying he was «not a political man»... and that he had not registered to vote in the 2015 general election.

It represents a dramatic fall in the Hammond's popularity among party members in recent weeks - after he was given a rating of plus 32.4 just before the general election.

«Preet for New York Attorney General» is a political action committee filed with the Federal Election Committee last week, just days after Eric Schneiderman resigned as New York's top law enforcement officer.

This week's skirmishes come a week after Lammy sounded off about Labour's general election performance in the capital.

The pair announced their intention to stand within a week of Nick Clegg's resignation speech the day after the general election, in which the party lost 85 % of its MPs and two - thirds of its voters.

Less than three weeks after the election, a passage appeared in a New York Times editorial urging Cuomo to «hand over the power to investigate public corruption in Albany to the new attorney general, Eric Schneiderman.»

Parliament was dissolved on 25 September and after three weeks of campaigning the general election took place on 15 October.

Young was elected to parliament at the February 1974 general election as MP for Acton with a majority of 1,300, defeating the sitting Labour Party MP, Nigel Spearing (who was returned to Parliament a few weeks later after winning a by - election in Newham South).

A new Constituency Commission report on election boundaries (for general and European elections) is likely to be published in the coming weeks after the publication of final / definitive population statistics for Census 2011 by the Central Statistics Office yesterday.

It comes a week after TP published exclusive footage of Brand saying he was «not a political man» and that he had not registered to vote in the 2015 general election.

And just six weeks ago, just after Theresa May called the general election, Johnson said during an interview with The Guardian: «There is no realistic chance of us winning.»

The announcement by Mattei, a former federal prosecutor who formed an exploratory committee for statewide office earlier this year with an eye toward next year's gubernatorial election, came a week after Attorney General George Jepsen said he would not seek a third term.

More than a week after he cruised to victory in the Nov. 2 general election, Governor - elect Andrew Cuomo has finally started to announce the members of his transition team.

After last week's failed backbench coup against Mr Brown, Labour has finally moved into general election mode.

After next year's general election, Ukip will end up with not a single parliamentary seat at Westminster and a share of the vote much reduced from their share this week.

Former leader Ed Miliband stood down after the party suffered a hammering defeat at last week's general election, opening discussion over a leadership contest.

After his election as attorney general the next year, Cuomo during his first week on the job said member items were a «vivid, graphic symbol» of what was wrong at the Capitol, and required any member item recipient to certify they had no conflict of interest with the relevent legislator.