Sentences with phrase «years as parliamentary candidate»
He began, as is customary, by giving a whistle - stop tour of his constituency which, he noted, he conducted himself during his three years as parliamentary candidate by bike - «following the instruction of the former Member for Chingford (Lord Tebbit), and more recently the example of my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister — perhaps the only time that they have agreed».
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I think it gives us lessons of persistence and courage», Mr Nyaunu who left the NDC to contest the 2012 parliamentary elections as an independent candidate and only returned to the party last year observed.
Some ward Coordinators and Branch executives of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) have sent a word of caution to the MP for the constituency, Hon. Nii Armah Ashitey to declare his intentions of contesting as an independent candidate in this years Parliamentary elections else they will seek some other person to contest.
In 2009, after eight years away from front - line politics, I decided to put myself forward as a potential Parliamentary candidate because I wanted to be part of — what I saw as — the Conservative Party's effort to reinforce, restore (and for some, reignite) people's belief in the value of doing the right thing.
Julie Moody is on the approved list of Conservative parliamentary candidates and recounts here how the miners» strike of 1984 - 85 politicised her as a 15 - year - old growing up in the mining heartland of County Durham.
«The Council also resolved that regional chairpersons, regional secretaries, regional treasurers, constituency chairpersons, constituency secretaries and constituency treasurers, are also not eligible to contest as parliamentary candidates in constituencies where the party has sitting Members of Parliament, unless they resign three years before the national general elections.»
Evans had joined the Tory Party in 1968, but despite his efforts to be accepted as a candidate, and his hard work for the St Albans Conservative Association, it was a further 18 years before he was invited to contest a parliamentary seat.
As a Labour parliamentary candidate, adviser to two cabinet ministers, chair of the Fabian Society, and prolific writer and pamphleteer, Paul Richards has been at the heart of the Labour Party for over 20 years.
Whilst she is married to an MP, the fact is that she is a politician in her own right, having stood as a Labour council candidate at the local elections this year and indicated her desire to fight a parliamentary seat in the future.
But on Friday, after polling 4,850 votes to Respect's 660, Hussain vowed to fight Galloway again in next year's general election, if selected as Labour's parliamentary candidate.
The General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia, popularly known as General Mosquito, has urged party supporters to vote massively for President John Mahama, as well as all NDC parliamentary candidates contesting in this year's general elections.
The Progressive People's Party's (PPP) Parliamentary Candidate for the Ofoase - Ayirebi Constituency in the Eastern Regio0n, John Obiri Yeboah, has said his party will build four factories in their first four years, and not just one as being promised by the NPP.
The 20 year old Aberdeen University student and former Scottish Parliament candidate for Coatbridge and Chryston takes James Wharton's claim as our youngest parliamentary candidate.