Sentences with phrase «year after a general election»

The following graph shows results for those local elections, like this year's, that were held just a year after a general election.

And Conference, three and a half years after the General Election defeat, we have learned from that experience and our time in government.

Not exact matches

After failing to predict the Conservative Party's victory in last year's general election, the U.K.'s pollsters were under pressure.

Britain's Labour Party adopted the song «Things can only get better» as its campaign anthem for the 1997 general election, expressing the party's ambitions for governing after 18 years in Continue Reading

Farron resigned as leader of the Lib Dems after the General Election this year, following a difficult season of questions about his views on homosexuality.

Commons Speaker John Bercow managed to get re-elected to the job after this year's general election, but he has yet to win over the bulk of his former colleagues in the Conservative party.

After a near 40 - year career in public office, state Sen. Kathy Marchione announced Wednesday she will not seek re-election in November and party leaders are searching for her replacement ahead of the November general election.

And a year later, after her general election blunder, when she needed a trusted ally to be her deputy prime minister in all but name, we shouldn't have been surprised that she sent for Damian once again.

I was sceptical and still am, although we learned after the general election last year to treat the published opinion polls with extreme caution.

He also claimed that the Tories» private polling last year, unlike the published polls which suggested a hung Parliament after the general election, pointed to a majority for David Cameron and the Conservatives.

The vice-presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has asked Muslims to pray for the country and work towards unity and peace before, during and after this year's general election.

As they had promised, the Lords accepted the Budget on 28 April 1910 — a year to the day after its introduction [15]-- when the land tax proposal was dropped, but contention between the government and the Lords continued until the second general election in December 1910, when the Unionists were again outpolled by their combined opponents.

But the graph shows that even if Jeremy Corbyn can not match that performance, he only has to beat his own 1 - point lead from 2016 to do better than any other Labour opposition leader a year after a Tory general election victory apart from John Smith.

She also suggested that 10,000 new police officers would be paid # 30 - per - year if Labour gain power after the General Election.

Speaking before the publication of his anticipated political memoir, written after his party was reduced to eight seats in last year's general election, Clegg hit out at David Cameron and his Conservative partners in government.

However, you seem to imply that just by announcing the proposed cut (sometime last year I think) it would somehow go directly into the consciousness of voters who aren't political obsessives and so make a difference to the LD ratings The truth is that for the LD's it will take a general election campaign and Clegg / Cable / Hune hammering the issue home in debate after debate after debate for it to register with people who don't pay much attention to the ups and downs of everyday politics, let alone the tax proposals of the 3rd party.

But after its first general election in 20 years, in November 2010, was criticised its leaders decided to embrace change, including by - elections earlier this month.

The most brutal irony of Gordon Brown's now - confirmed attendance at the Iraq inquiry before the general election is that, after staying silent on the issue for years, he now has to speak out just when it could do him maximum political damage.

In truth, the general election after this one may be the most critical, for if a new group of politicians come into Parliament, and the public, after five years, sense that little has changed, then public attitudes to politics and politicians may plummet still further.

At the same time, a year of good governance is certainly not enough to fix Italy's problems and it is increasingly clear that, after the general elections foreseen for next spring, the country can not afford to go back to politics as usual.

After next year's local elections the long run - in to the next general election will begin in earnest.

That sparked a flurry of speculation about Clegg's departure after the 2015 general election - and raised the likelihood that he might be ousted before the poll, in a bid to limit the damage of five years in government with the Conservatives.

Right - wing forces in the UK are split over how to respond to the EU, a divide which could cost its politicians their jobs in government after next year's general election.

An astonishing surge in membership after defeat for the Yes campaign in last year's independence referendum was followed by an SNP landslide in May's general election, when the party won 56 of Scotland's 59 constituencies.

But after all these years, it will be just months before his first general election as prime minister.

Speaking after the ballot count, Labour leader Ed Miliband explained that his party's strategy in the run up to next year's general election is to «focus on the economy and standards of living».

Indiana's state representatives are elected to a two - year term that begins on the day after their general election.

We surveyed Labour members just after the 2015 General Election, and then ran a second survey in May this year so we could capture those who joined the party after the eElection, and then ran a second survey in May this year so we could capture those who joined the party after the electionelection.

At the 2015 general election, the party was reduced to eight MPs, and Clegg resigned as party leader after eight years in the role.

In an interview with the Guardian, the MP for Hull West and Hessle said that when the Lib Dems came to talk to Labour in May 2010, just after the general election resulted in the first hung parliament in 36 years, he believed the two parties would form a coalition.

National Executive Committee, 4 November 2014 As usual the first meeting after conference was an extended session, setting strategy for the year ahead, with general election victory the over-riding objective.

Indiana's state senators are elected to a four - year term that begins on the day after their general election.

Some Republicans, eager to win the governor's office after eight years of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, are growing increasingly nervous that all this enthusiasm could cost them in the general election this fall.

The Liberal Democrat donor who helped fund the party's general election campaign has been jailed for two years after pleading guilty to perjury and obtaining a passport by deception.

12:08 - If Brown's so confident why doesn't he do «what Margaret Thatcher did, and Tony Blair did, after four years of a parliament, and call a general election?»

The former Dulwich and West Norwood MP, who stood down at the general election after 20 years in Parliament, earned widespread plaudits for the role she played in London's bid for the 2012 Olympics and her subsequent performance as Olympics minister.

The Conservatives in Wales have had their best General Election results for more than 30 years after gaining three seats.

The former work and pensions secretary, whose resignation from the cabinet and criticism of Gordon Brown last June nearly toppled the prime minister, has told his constituency Labour party in Stalybridge and Hyde he will be standing down as their MP but that his decision is personal and, after 20 years in the Westminster political system, no reflection on Labour's chances at the next general election.

After all, three years after that defeat, the party collapsed to its worst general election result since After all, three years after that defeat, the party collapsed to its worst general election result since after that defeat, the party collapsed to its worst general election result since 1906.

«After the 2019 general elections, we will begin to work for the 2022 election in earnest and the experience we garnered this year will be our guide.

He was followed by Boris Johnson who is standing down this year after being elected the Tory MP for Uxbridge in last year's general election.

The general election result — when the Conservative Treasury minister Jane Ellison was swept out of her Battersea seat after a 10 % swing to Labour — has given activists hope of taking Wandsworth for the first time in 40 years, but in several wards the party would need a significantly bigger swing to take the number of councillors needed for a majority.

The venue was the scene of Labour's 1997 general election party which saw the party elevated back to power after 18 years in the political wilderness.

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After a successful first term, Cuomo was still on course to be a valuable fund - raiser and surrogate once next year's general election rolls around.

He made clear that after five years of austerity, the squeeze on the public sector will have to continue beyond the general election and into the next parliament to rebuild the public finances.

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 Labour breakaway party has been mooted since Jeremy Corbyn became odds - on favourite to become leader, two and a half years ago, and was revived as a nuclear option after a disastrous general election showing.

Former Tory MP for Corby Louise Mensch, who now lives in New York, posits this intriguing scenario after next year's general election.

A Raleigh, N.C - based poll had Congressman John Faso with a bottom - feeding 31 percent popularity rating this month, only a year after he took 54 percent in the general election.