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Democratic Audit UK
January 30, 2018
Benjamin Farrer (Knox College) and Josh Zingher (Old Dominion University) find that the explanation for this lies in the interaction of local demographics and political parties, and that as a result centre-left parties in the US, UK and Australia have been more successful at getting ethnic minority candidatesÃÂ ...
VICE
January 29, 2018
“US-UK intervention offered Iraq a better future. Whatever West's mistakes: sectarian war was a choice Iraqis made for themselves,” he tweeted in 2016. The way Frum understands it, the mistake wasn't necessarily going into Iraq to begin with, but rather, as he told me, America's failure to achieve “the largerÃÂ ...
BBC News
January 29, 2018
A new political party that based its name on initials more commonly associated with diarrhoea and vomiting has provoked hilarity on social media. The Democrats and Veterans Party was set up by ex-serviceman and said it had already had 321 candidates ready to fight local and national elections.
Nottingham Post
January 27, 2018
“We're not going to be connected with any political party in Westminster so our decisions are only going to be based on what's best for Nottingham.” Anyone can register a political party in the UK with the Electoral Commission, and must file annual accounts as well as hold an AGM. A political party does notÃÂ ...
Metro
January 23, 2018
A decorated war hero who survived eight bomb blasts in Iraq is launching a new political party to fill the void left by UKIP. Trevor Coult, 43, is entering the political minefield with Democrats and Veterans – a new Brexit-backing party vowing to give voters a voice in Westminster. MP tells Holocaust denierÃÂ ...
Vanguard
January 22, 2018
Political party manifestos: Nigeria, UK and US (2) ... At present, a wife cannot join her husband in the United Kingdom if the husband earns below a certain amount. ... It is possible that this may be due to a failure of the political parties having no ideology and an identifying policy tied to that party? It wouldÃÂ ...
The Sun
January 20, 2018
ARMED forces veterans will declare all-out war on mainstream politicians next month – by launching their own party. Five ex-squaddies aim to field 87 candidates at the next election on a mission to topple “morally deficient” and “self-serving careerist” MPs. SAS hero Robin Horsfall has joined forces withÃÂ ...
Vanguard
January 15, 2018
THE party is committed to building a qualitatively better society based on the principle of democracy, human rights and moral justice under the rule of law. It would restructure Nigeria for true federalism: devolution of powers to the states and local governments in an indivisible Nigeria that respectsÃÂ ...
Belfast Telegraph
January 5, 2018
Portugal's political parties have said they will review a decision to award themselves a broad tax rebate and scrap limits on the private funds they can raise after the country's president vetoed the new law. President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa blocked the legislation, saying politicians did not explain why theÃÂ ...
In Homeland Security
January 5, 2018
The majority party in the parliament (Britain, Israel, France, and South Korea) often need to form coalitions with minority third parties to have a ruling majority. Suppose the GOP had 45 seats in the Senate and the Democrats had 45. Both would seek the votes of the third party to pass legislation. The recentlyÃÂ ...
The Economist
January 5, 2018
An estimated 600,000 Italians live in Britain; not even the prospect of Brexit has stemmed the flow. In the 12 months to mid-2017, whereas the number of Poles entering the British labour market dropped by 26%, the number of Italians rose by 2%. A third factor easing the plight of the young is family support.
Hurriyet Daily News
January 5, 2018
In the UK, the Conservative government seeks an exit from the European Union while a barely suppressed civil war rages within it. The far-left commands the Labour opposition. In France, all of the established parties have been marginalized in the national assembly by a wave of political neophytes in theÃÂ ...
The Times
January 4, 2018
Switzerland's political parties have united in anger after the European Union took the country's financial services sector hostage in negotiations over a new ... is the preferred Brussels option for the City of London after Brexit in a trade deal that will not include services if Britain leaves Europe's single market.
The Guardian
January 4, 2018
According to the Mile End Institute at Queen Mary University of London, the people who join Britain's political parties all have an awful lot in common, in spite of their partisan differences. The members of Britain's four main parties are, in fact, all more likely to be male, to be middle class and to be older.
Plymouth Herald
December 31, 1999
She founded Sharia Watch, a website that focuses on Islam in Britain, and is a member of Pegida UK, a branch of the anti-Islam group. In a video explaining her reasons for the split from UKIP, she said: “My new party will be different. We will speak to the forgotten people. I want to hold public meetings inÃÂ ...
Austin American-Statesman
November 20, 2017
The 93-year-old, who has led the country since it gained independence in 1980 from Great Britain, pledged to preside over a ZANU-PFÂ ...
BBC News
November 18, 2017
Negotiations between German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives, the free-market liberal FDP and the Greens to form a so-called ...
Broadway World
November 16, 2017
Matt Forde's London show, The Political Party, has been a sell-out ... an in-depth discussion with one of Britain's leading political figures that ...
Engadget
November 16, 2017
The UK's Electoral Commission wants political parties to be more ... that could have influenced "the democratic process of the United Kingdom.
The Week UK
November 15, 2017
Political parties will in future have to disclose who is paying for their online ... media posts during election periods”, says Business Insider UK.
Open Democracy
November 14, 2017
We would rather continue in our chosen areas of activism, while supporting existing progressive political parties. Alas, Europe's crisis and slow ...
The Times
November 7, 2017
A political party is being launched in Kensington and Chelsea today ... in June, has selected 100 candidates from around Britain for Renew.
BBC News
November 6, 2017
The Green Party leader has said contentious issues need to be taken away from Northern Ireland's political parties and opened up to a ...
BBC News
November 6, 2017
Theresa May has called for a "new culture of respect" ahead of a meeting with other party leaders to discuss the Westminster sexual ...
Bromley Times
November 6, 2017
The far-right political party announced a “persecuted patriots” rally, as leaders Paul Golding and Jayda Fransen, both from Penge, face orders ...
The Guardian
November 5, 2017
The political parties have long operated along cultural norms that not .... A Girlguiding UK survey suggests two in three girls aged 13-21 have ...
The Guardian
November 5, 2017
... of paper that the pro-Brexiteers advocated during the UK referendum. ... in the manifestos of the political parties contesting the first independence ... And by leadership I don't mean one individual or even one political party.
Colorado Springs Gazette
November 5, 2017
Britain's two largest political parties, Saturday Nov. 4, 2017, are investigating a continuing string of sexual harassment allegations against ...
U.S. News & World Report
November 5, 2017
LONDON (AP) — Some British lawmakers are coming forward to deny their involvement as Britain's two largest political parties investigate a ...
BBC News
November 4, 2017
An NI-based party is the only UK or Ireland political organisation on a list of groups ... The HEFCE said, however, that other political parties were also free to nominate ... The IRSP is the only political party on a list of 2,154 such ...
The Content Standard by Skyword
November 4, 2017
... Learn from the Successful Rebranding of Britain's Political Parties ... been two major political rebranding campaigns in the UK—one from ...
New Statesman
November 2, 2017
... the introduction of a third actor: a political party, where issues of how ... is to be one of genuine change in all the political parties, rather than ...
The Guardian
October 24, 2017
Eminem wins $600,000 after New Zealand political party breached his .... Zealand and will be influential in Australia, the UK and elsewhere.” ...
The Guardian
October 17, 2017
France and Italy have seen nine political parties finish in the top two in their elections during this period. Britain has witnessed just two.
The Guardian
December 31, 1999
Political parties will be told to disclose to the public who is paying for digital adverts, the elections watchdog has announced, following the ...
Belfast Telegraph
December 31, 1999
Parties and individuals campaigning in Northern Ireland for the 2017 snap General Election spent almost £500,000 on the campaign trail, it has ...
The Independent
December 31, 1999
A Labour MP has accused the Prime Minister of failing to ensure that political parties are not acting to cover up abuse scandals. Lisa Nandy has ...
HuffPost UK
December 31, 1999
Stella Creasy: Political Parties Must Train Staff To Deal With Sex Assaults ... The Walthamstow MP told HuffPost UK: “Bex is a good friend of ...
San Francisco Chronicle
October 7, 2017
... a speech at his ruling political party's conference in Afyonkarahisar ... The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which hasÃÂ ...
The Guardian
October 5, 2017
Nick Clegg urges voters to join Labour or Tories to keep UK in EU ... him to encourage voters to join a political party other than his own, but heÃÂ ...
The New Arab
October 4, 2017
Comment: For democracy to appeal to those who do not live under it, and retain the commitment of those who do, it has to work properly, writesÃÂ ...
BBC News
September 29, 2017
In fact around one in 50 people in the UK is a member of one of the three main UK political parties - Conservative, Labour or Liberal Democrat.
Yorkshire Post
September 26, 2017
The young man and Britain as a compassionate nation are no more. ... All our political parties are at fault and should be ashamed, but some areÃÂ ...
The Guardian
September 26, 2017
... minister, has also hit back at Turnbull's criticism, saying Victoria's ban on fracking was legislated and supported by every political party.
expressandstar.com
September 26, 2017
But Al Murray himself believes Britain is heading for a Brexit compromise, ... setting up his own political party – the Free United Kingdom Party.
Savannah Morning News
September 26, 2017
Lending his support to No Labels is also consistent with his view that the United States and Britain must work together to protect and advanceÃÂ ...
Deutsche Welle
September 25, 2017
German and British political parties: A comparison ... way the votes are counted - with Britain's first-past-the-post system often delivering a ... the SPD that Labour has largely avoided in the UK: While the CDU/CSU has kept itsÃÂ ...
The Sun
September 24, 2017
AS the two main political parties leave Westminster for their annual conferences, the moods in either camp could not be more different.
Yahoo News UK
September 24, 2017
German voters will head to the polls for a general election on September 24, with surveys giving Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives aÃÂ ...
Belfast Newsletter
September 24, 2017
Sinn Fein's northern leader, Michelle O'Neill and party colleague John O'Dowd . They were two of the 19 Stormont candidates in the party,ÃÂ ...
